MIGRANTE International

Press Statement10 October 2023 Amidst reports of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) in Israel going missing, being injured and needing rescue because of the flare-up of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Migrante-International is calling on the Philippine government, especially president Bongbong Marcos, to prepare a

Press Statement 07 October 2023We migrant Filipinos who are deeply concerned with the human rights situation in the Philippines vehemently condemn the acquittal of retired major general Jovito Palparan and five military auxiliary forces by the Malolos Regional Trial Court over the abduction,

Press Statement30 September 2023President Bongbong Marcos’ signing of the so-called “Trabaho Para sa Bayan” Act on September 27 shows that the unemployment crisis in the country has become so bad that the chief executive has to pretend that he is doing something

Press Statement19 September 2023Together with the Filipino people, we at Migrante-International watched the press conference of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) this morning featuring activists Jonila Castro and Jhed Tamano.  The activists, who have been missing

Press Statement16 September 2023Migrante-International welcomes the Kuwait court’s speedy resolution of the case of Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) Jullebee Ranara whose burned, murdered and pregnant body was found in a desert in January this year. At the same time, we believe that

PRESS Statement01 September 2023 Migrante International is very glad that the Department of Justice (DOJ) has suspended the implementation of the Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking’s (IACAT) policy to increase the documentary requirements for Filipino travelers, most of whom are Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs)

Press Statement01 September 2023 We condemn the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the Bongbong Marcos government for their plan to place permanent police attache’s in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Paris, New York, Washington, San Francisco, China, Thailand, Malaysia, Pakistan, and

Migrante Canada  In Solidarity with the Rural Missionaries, GABRIELA and Karapatan 28 August 2023 The Acquittal that Keeps Esperon Jr. Awake at Night and Frothing at the Mouth When the law is not to former National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr.’s liking,

PRESS STATEMENT, 22 August 2023We are appalled and angered by the Commission of Audit COA finding that from April 2020 to March 2023, 3,707 supposed Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) availed of emergency repatriation from two to five times, receiving free flights, lodging,

Press Statement22 August 2023The Bongbong Marcos government’s proposed 2024 national budget is low on services for migrant Filipinos but high on its anti-people priorities such as debt servicing, repression, and corruption.  We decry this budget. It disregards much-needed services to migrants and