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The World According to Julie. Friday, January 21, 2011. My friend the fearless NGO worker Ellene Sana was afraid in Saudi Arabia. Now that says a lot about the place where women are still not allowed to mingle freely with men, not even with their in-laws. Where they enter houses, restaurants and even public buses through a separate entrance. Ellene is no ordinary NGO worker either. She once rallied with the East Timorese for their independence, in Indonesia no less. Ellene now understands why Filipina do...
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The World According to Julie. Thursday, February 12, 2009. Broken families will be a thing of the past with the help of Microsoft’s Tulay program, Lilybeth Doronio, who because of Tulay now communicates with her overseas worker husband five times a day. Lilybeth has been married more than 20 years and she and her husband, an engineer at a power plant in Vietnam, used to make do with talking to each other thrice a week using his mobile phone. Tulay’s trainor in Davao, Wadi Mutia, now considers Buhay...
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The World According to Julie. Monday, February 02, 2009. Overseas workers in Saudi Arabia are complaining about the inconvenient schedule for the registration of overseas absentee voters there. The Philippine embassy earlier announced that registrants would be entertained from 8 am to 4 pm, Saturday till Wednesday. This would mean there would be no registration on Thursday and Friday, the heaviest days during the past two registrations since the weekend in Saudi Arabia falls on these days. Hindi puwede m...
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The World According to Julie. Tuesday, January 13, 2009. After three years, UST journalism professor and migrant advocate Jeremaiah Opiniano and the Institute for Migration and Development Issues (IMDI) has managed to come up with the .Philippine Migration and Development Statistical Almanac by monitoring, compiling, and eventually harmonizing statistics on Filipinos’ international migration. In his introduction on http:/ almanac.ofwphilanthropy.org. Jeremaiah said the Almanac does not aim to immediately...
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The World According to Julie. Thursday, January 27, 2011. Preliminary Report of the Committee on Overseas Workers’ Affairs (COWA) Fact-finding Mission to Saudi Arabia. By Rep. Walden Bello, COWA Chairman. This document is a brief preliminary report prepared for the meeting of the Committee on Overseas Workers’ Affairs on Jan 26. The full report will be available on Feb 9, 2011. Members of the Mission. Objectives of the Mission. The objectives of the mission were the following:. Activities of the Mission.
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The World According to Julie. Tuesday, February 10, 2009. A group of Saudi Arabia based overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) wrote me an email providing me a copy of a letter to senate President Juan Ponce Enrile asking him to create an oversight committee to supervise the disbursement of the Expatriate Livelihood Support Fund (ELSF). Francis Oca, VP, PPP (Partidong Pangdaigdigang Pilipino – Riyadh) said “while we do not question the intention by which the ELSF was created, we want to be sure tha...
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The World According to Julie. Thursday, January 27, 2011. These were the impressions gathered by Rep. Walden Bello, whose team Ellene joined:. Sexual Prey in the Saudi Jungle. The tale of woe recounted by Lorena (not her real name) was one of several stories of rape and sexual abuse that were shared by domestic workers with members of a fact-finding team of the Committee on Overseas Workers’ Affairs (COWA) of the House of Representatives. More in The Philippine Daily Inquirer. Center for Migrant Advocacy.
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The World According to Julie. Saturday, July 10, 2010. I remember first trudging the path to his old office in Bohol Avenue – “yung malapit sa ABS-CBN” he told me then – for my first interview with him. It was him who introduced me to Ellene Sana and Noel Esquela and Rob Ceralvo and the other overseas absentee voting advocates. So in essence Ka Edong brought me into the lobby. Finally, I witnessed the signing of the bill into law in Malacañang on Feb. 13, 2003. Ka Edong was a pivotal member of th...
