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Migrante International is challenging the Duterte government to declare Sondos Alqattan a persona non grata. The OFW bloc also wants the Kuwaiti celebrity to...

Overseas Filipinos led by Migrante International held protest actions across the globe in solidarity with the United Peoples SONA which will be held just...

  Migrante staged a solidarity action today with PLDT strikers and other laid-off employees encamped at Mendiola to express strong support for workers’ rights.  Labor...

Migrante International expresses its warmest sympathy to the family of Henry Acorda as they grieve for the loss of their beloved kin.  OFWs around the world and their families here at the home front are one with his family and friends in paying tribute to the courage he displayed in defending his fellow Filipino overseas worker.  We are on the family’s side in their quest for justice.  Henry Acorda, is an OFW in Slovakia who had been badly beaten on May 26 by a Slovak citizen for defending his friend from sexual harassment.  In a CCTV footage, his perpetrator, Juraj Hossu, was seen stepping on his chest and taking photos of him while he is lying unconscious on the sidewalk.  Henry died five days after the incident due to severe head injuries. It was later discovered that Hossu is a white supremacist. Slovaks identified him as a supporter of the far right movement in Slovakia.  We are deeply appalled by the fact that xenophobia is already claiming the lives of our compatriots abroad.  Hate crimes like this must be given the fullest attention by the government.  Juraj Hossu must be put to justice. Filipino migrants are extremely vulnerable to racism and hate crimes. Economic declensions in host countries and its resultant social discontent among its people has made the migrant workers soft targets of racism and hate. In countries like Slovakia and the US where beliefs about "migrant workers robbing the locals of their jobs and welfare" are tolerated, if not actually nurtured by the government and in the absence of genuine protection mechanism on migrant workers by labor-exporting countries like the Philippines, many Henry Acordas live in continual danger. We are calling on President Duterte to ensure the delivery of immediate justice for Henry Acorda.  Further, as the toll of OFW deaths due to hate crimes and abuse continue to rise, the Duterte regime, at this time, should have crafted a comprehensive protection mechanism for them. We must not allow this generation of injustice and sorrow to continue. The labor export program, the plague that causes deaths and danger to our OFWs, the same program that puts profit over the rights and welfare of our OFWs should be scrapped.###

As the global economic crisis boils up, the ruling powers are aggressively bolstering the oppressive social order that afflicts the majority of the masses....

Just the other day, Malacañang’s comical spokesperson Harry Roque once more sought to evoke awe and wonder from the public when he revealed that Duterte has...

Three years ago, the world was witness to what collective action can do to create a “miracle.” An incarcerated innocent life was spared at...

We mourn with the family and loved ones of Joanna Demafelis who suffered unimaginable cruelty from the hands of her employers in Kuwait. For...

THE REAL DEVIL UNMASKED By Migrante-Philippines Before proceeding to NAIA to welcome more than a hundred OFWs from Kuwait, Duterte once again uttered colorful...

The Court of Appeals has recently promulgated a decision reversing the Regional Trial Court judge’s ruling allowing the deposition of Mary Jane. This unjust...