DISTRESSED OFWS. Distressed overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) from Kuwait are assisted by the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Pasay City on Tuesday (Jan. 17, 2023). The House of Representatives is urging the Philippine government to immediately ratify International Labor Organization (ILO) Convention No. 190, otherwise known as Violence and Harassment Convention, to better protect OFWs from any form of violence and harassment in their host countries. (Photo courtesy of DMW) MANILA - The House of Representatives on Wednesday adopted a resolution calling for the immediate ratification of International Labor Organization (ILO) Convention No. 190 which recognizes the right of everyone to a violent-free workplace, including gender-based violence and harassment. House Resolution No. 650 noted that the Philippines, as a matter of policy, does not condone any form of workplace violence and harassment as shown by existing laws on protection, preve
The three-member Makabayan bloc is urging the House of Representatives to condemn and investigate what they called the “abduction and enforced disappearance” of two Cebu-based activists, stressing that this might just be a “prelude to more human rights violations.”
The three-member Makabayan bloc filed House Resolution No. 49 calling on the human rights and public information panels to immediately conduct a probe on the blocking of the red-tagged websites, which include independent news outlets Bulatlat and Pinoy Weekly.
Two House of Representatives committees are being urged to probe the alleged abuses committed by teachers and staff against students at the Philippine High School for the Arts.