MANILA, Philippines - The dollars sent home by overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) might breach a new record level high of $15-billion this year, the Department of Labor and Employment (Dole) projected Friday.
In a report to Malacañang Dole Secretary Marianito Roque said that the rising number of Filipinos deployed all over the world would assure that OFW remittances would surpass the $14.449 billion benchmark in 2007.
LUXEMBOURG - European Union nations agreed Thursday on common rules for expelling illegal immigrants, ensuring basic rights including access to food, shelter and legal advice.
The rules say illegal immigrants in the 27 member countries can no longer be detained for more than 18 months before deportation to their home nations, and unaccompanied children cannot be expelled.
In remembering the atrocious treatment of the Filipinos in that war, it is fitting that we also remember those who refused to do the dirty work of their military and political leaders. Just as the American Anti-Imperialist League is remembered for its active, though ultimately unsuccessful, campaign to prevent the war, we should remember those black Americans who fought in the jungles and mountains to keep the Philippines free. Their struggle continues in many parts of the world today.
A human rights group warned Friday in their annual report that the year 2006 is the 'worst' for human rights in the country. The group Karapatan said that 185 activists have been killed in the last 11 months, a record since the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos was overthrown in 1986. (Philippine Star, Dec. 1, 2006)
