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Showing posts with label JAKATIA PAWA. Show all posts
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Tuesday, January 31, 2017

DEPLOYMENT MORATORIUM, NOW! --- OFW GROUPS

A 33 year-old household service worker in Kuwait died of severe beating by her employer. Amy Capulong Santiago was declared dead on arrival when her employers brought her at the Farwaniya Hospital due to severe beating on the very same day when another Filipina HSW, Jakatia Pawa was executed. Doctors found bruises all over her body. Her employers turn themselves over to the police and are now detained at Abdullah Al Mubarak Police Station. The Philippine Embassy in Kuwait vowed to take the case head-on and give justice to the bereaved family of the OFW. Santiago arrived in Kuwait on August 2015. Jakatia Pawa, on the other hand was executed due to the alleged killing of her sponsors daughter. However, her family believe that what has happened to Pawa was a set-up and the OFW was innocent. According to her brother during his conversation with Pawa over the phone, Pawa told him that her employer's 22 year-old daughter was caught by her employer having sex with her boyfriend. Out of anger, the employer killed her own daughter then called the police. When the police arrived, they saw Pawa cleaning the blood on the crime scene and arrested her. This explains the forensic findings that not a single fingerprint came from Pawa was found. Only the DNA on the gloves she used for cleaning was found and used as evidence against her. A growing number of abuse and maltreatment cases on HSWs revived the call for deployment moratorium in sending HSWs in Kuwait. OFW advocate groups cry for the deployment ban of HSWs, not only in Kuwait but for the entire Middle East. However, the Kuwaiti government downplayed the effect of the said deployment ban saying that Kuwait will not be affected by such actions of any country's decision to restrict their citizen from entering or travelling to Kuwait, nor affect the supply of domestic workers in the country. A new regulation for domestic workers is also on its way for implementation. It is said to standardize the cost of bringing in domestic workers to Kuwait, forcing domestic labor bureaus to abide by the regulations, and impose punishment of five-year imprisonment and/or fine of KD 5,000 for any manipulation of the regulations. The said regulation is expected to be published in newspapers prior to its implementation and will be endorsed by Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor and Ministry of Interior. Meanwhile, the Philippines is not the only country to implement such moratorium or deployment ban, if ever. India, for instance, has an existing deployment ban on their women domestic workers from entering Kuwait due to maltreatment reports. The Ambassador of Nepal to Kuwait Yagya Bahadur Hamal said that their government decided to organize the process of sending domestic workers to Kuwait after receiving several complaints, saying that this move was aimed to protect Nepalese domestic laborers in the country. Ethiopia also has a temporary ban for their domestic workers, not only for entering Kuwait but the whole Middle east as well. The government of Indonesia, banned its nationals from traveling to the countries of the Middle East, not Kuwait alone, since 2009, to work as domestic workers. There are plans to extend that ban to include other countries in the world. Philippine Ambassador to Kuwait Renato Pedro Villa said that as of now , there are no directives or orders from the DFA regarding his recommendation of temporary suspension of deployment of HSWS in Kuwait but he assures that his office will implement the moratorium once the DFA issue the orders. RECOMMENDED: DOLE Sec. Bello in Kuwait OFW EXECUTED IN KUWAIT PRESIDENT DUTERTE VISITS ADMIRAL TRIBUTS DTI ACCREDITED CARGO FORWARDERS FOR 2017 NO MORE PHYSICAL INSPECTION FOR BALIKBAYAN BOXES BOC DELISTED CARGO FORWARDERS AND BROKERS BALIKBAYAN BOXES SHOULD BE PROTECTED DOLE ENCOURAGES OFW TEACHERS TO TEACH IN THE PHILIPPINES

A 33  year-old household service worker in Kuwait died of severe beating by her employer. 
Amy Capulong Santiago was declared dead on arrival when her employers  brought her at the Farwaniya Hospital due to severe beating on  the very same day when another Filipina HSW, Jakatia  Pawa was executed. Doctors found bruises all over her body. Her employers turn themselves over to the police and are now detained at Abdullah Al Mubarak Police Station. 
 The Philippine Embassy in Kuwait vowed to take the case head-on and give justice to the bereaved family of the OFW. Santiago arrived in Kuwait on August 2015.

Jakatia Pawa, on the other hand was executed due to the alleged killing of her sponsors daughter. However, her family believe that what has happened to Pawa  was a set-up and the OFW was innocent. According  to her brother  during his conversation with Pawa over the phone, Pawa told him that her employer's 22 year-old daughter was caught by her employer having sex with her boyfriend. Out of anger, the employer killed her own daughter then called the police. When the police arrived, they saw Pawa cleaning the blood on the crime scene and arrested her. This explains the forensic findings that not a single fingerprint came from Pawa was found. Only the DNA on the gloves she used for cleaning was found and used as evidence against her.

A growing number of abuse and maltreatment cases on HSWs revived the call for deployment moratorium in sending HSWs in Kuwait. OFW advocate groups cry for the deployment ban of HSWs, not only in Kuwait but for the entire Middle East. 

 However, the Kuwaiti government downplayed the  effect of the said deployment ban saying that Kuwait will not be affected by such actions of any country's decision to restrict their citizen from entering or travelling to Kuwait, nor affect the supply of domestic workers in the country.
A new regulation for domestic workers is also on its way for implementation. It is said to standardize the cost of bringing in domestic workers to Kuwait, forcing domestic labor bureaus to abide by the regulations, and impose punishment of five-year imprisonment and/or fine of KD 5,000 for any manipulation of the regulations.
The said regulation is expected to be published  in newspapers prior to its implementation and will be endorsed by Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor and Ministry of Interior.






Meanwhile, the Philippines is not the only country  to implement such moratorium or deployment ban, if ever. India, for instance, has an existing deployment ban on their women domestic workers from entering Kuwait due to maltreatment reports. 
 The Ambassador of Nepal to Kuwait Yagya Bahadur Hamal said that their government decided to organize the process of sending domestic workers to Kuwait after receiving several complaints, saying that this  move was aimed to protect Nepalese domestic laborers in the country.
Ethiopia also has a temporary ban for their domestic workers, not only for entering Kuwait but the whole Middle east as well.
The government of Indonesia,  banned its nationals from traveling to the countries of the Middle East, not Kuwait alone, since 2009, to work as domestic workers. There are plans to extend that ban to include other countries in the world.

Philippine Ambassador to Kuwait Renato Pedro Villa said that as of now , there are no directives or orders from the DFA regarding his recommendation of temporary suspension of deployment of HSWS in Kuwait but he assures that his office will implement the moratorium once the DFA issue the orders.


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Friday, January 27, 2017

Secretary Bello Went to Kuwait to Tackle Proposed Ban of Kasambahay Recruitment

In the wake of OFW Jakatia Pawa's execution last Wednesday, an HSW in Kuwait who allegedly killed her employer's 22 year-old daughter, a call for the moratorium on sending Filipino HSW in the Middle East has been a cry for different OFW groups. Department of Labor and Employment Secretary Silvestre Bello III is now in Kuwait to tackle the proposed moratorium on sending Filipino HSWs. Bello arrived in Kuwait on Thursday, a day after OFW Pawa was executed. He went there to check on another OFW in the death row, Elpidio Lano. He was given a death sentence for killing a fellow Filipino, Nilo Macaranas on June 17, 2014. "I’m here on the instruction of President Duterte to know why Lano is on the death row and how we can help and save him. It also gave me a reason to look into the administrative lapse in the operation of our POLO office. Because we are all shocked, we learned about the execution (of Jakatia Pawa) on the very day that she will be executed. We were never aware that there were OFWs who are on death row,” Bello said. From the Airport, Bello proceeded to the Philippine Embassy to meet embassy officials led by Ambassador Renato Pedro Villa, as well as the POLO-OWWA officials in Kuwait. “I’m also here to personally check on the status of OFWs in Kuwait and the distressed OFWs in the POLO-OWWA shelter. I have also asked Attache Cesar Chavez Jr to go around the POLO offices in the Middle East in the next two weeks and check on the list of Filipinos in the jail or on death row so we can find ways to help them,” Bello added. The call for moratorium or temporary suspension of sending HSWs to Kuwait has been discussed with Villa and his team. “There has been a call to suspend or call for moratorium for quite a time now due to the high incidence harassment, maltreatment. It is time for me to make a serious study, consultation and come up with a decision,” Bello stated, stressing that the proposed moratorium should be seriously considered. He also said that in a matter of time,the Philippine Government will decide on the proposed moratorium. “There’s already a tentative decision but it may not be a good timing if we do it now because it may be perceived by the Kuwaiti government as a retaliatory move, hence, we have to do it at a proper timing,” assures Bello. In accordance with this, Villa disclosed that he made an endorsement of the said moratorium to Manila January last year and made a follow-upin September of the same year. Aside from initial talks, nothing has happened until now. “It’s about time that such action be implemented so both parties, Kuwait and the Philippines should talk due to the increasing number of runaway maids as well as the continuous deployment of household service workers who most of them become victims of various forms of abuses prompting them to escape from their employers and run to the embassy shelter,” Villa said. “We are appealing to President Duterte to hear our plea for a moratorium! How many more Jakatia Pawa have to suffer the same fate?” Mary Ann Abunda, the founder of Sandigan, an OFW advocacy group in Kuwait said. Around 158,000 HSWs are working in Kuwait, about more than half of around 250,000 OFWs working there. Kuwait has the highest number of distressed OFWs housed in the POLO-OWWA Shelter and Kuwait Migrant Workers Shelter in the Middle East. Source: Arab Times



In the wake of OFW Jakatia Pawa's execution last Wednesday, an HSW in Kuwait who  allegedly killed her employer's 22 year-old daughter, a call for the moratorium on sending Filipino HSW in the Middle East has been, once again, a cry of different OFW groups in social media.

 Department of Labor and Employment Secretary Silvestre Bello III went to Kuwait to tackle  the proposed moratorium on sending Filipino HSWs.
Bello arrived in Kuwait on Thursday, a day after OFW Pawa was executed. He went there to check on another OFW in the death row, Elpidio Lano. He was  given a death sentence for killing a fellow Filipino, Nilo Macaranas on June 17, 2014.


"I’m here on the instruction of President Duterte to know why Lano is on the death row and how we can help and save him. It also gave me a reason to look into the administrative lapse in the operation of our POLO office. Because we are all shocked, we learned about the execution (of Jakatia Pawa) on the very day that she will be executed. We were never aware that there were OFWs who are on death row,” Bello said.

From the Airport, Bello proceeded to the Philippine Embassy to meet embassy officials led by Ambassador Renato Pedro Villa, as well as the POLO-OWWA officials in Kuwait.




“I’m also here to personally check on the status of OFWs in Kuwait and the distressed OFWs in the POLO-OWWA shelter. I have also asked Attache Cesar Chavez Jr to go around the POLO offices in the Middle East in the next two weeks and check on the list of Filipinos in the jail or on death row so we can find ways to help them,” Bello added.




The call for moratorium or temporary suspension of sending HSWs to Kuwait has been discussed with Villa and his team.


“There has been a call to suspend or call for moratorium for quite a time now due to the high incidence harassment, maltreatment. It is time for me to make a serious study, consultation and come up with a decision,” Bello stated, stressing that the proposed moratorium should be seriously considered.

He also said that in a matter of time,the Philippine Government will decide on the proposed moratorium.


“There’s already a tentative decision but it may not be a good timing if we do it now because it may be perceived by the Kuwaiti government as a retaliatory move, hence, we have to do it at a proper timing,” assures Bello.


In accordance with this, Villa disclosed that he made an endorsement of the said moratorium to  Manila January last year and made a follow-up in September of the same year. Aside from  initial talks, nothing has happened until now.


“It’s about time that such action be implemented so both parties, Kuwait and the Philippines should talk due to the increasing number of runaway maids as well as the continuous deployment of household service workers who most of them become victims of various forms of abuses prompting them to escape from their employers and run to the embassy shelter,” Villa said.


“We are appealing to President Duterte to hear our plea for a moratorium! How many more Jakatia Pawa have to suffer the same fate?” Mary Ann Abunda, the founder of Sandigan, an OFW advocacy group in Kuwait said.


Around 158,000 HSWs are working in Kuwait,  about more than half of around 250,000 OFWs working there. 

 Kuwait has the highest number of distressed OFWs housed in the POLO-OWWA Shelter and Kuwait Migrant Workers Shelter in the Middle East.

Source: Arab Times

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Wednesday, January 25, 2017

UPDATE: OFW JAKATIA PAWA, EXECUTED. "WE DID EVERYTHING.."-DFA




An OFW in Kuwait is scheduled to be executed but her kins are never losing hope and appealing to President Rodrigo Duterte to help the OFW because they believe that she is innocent.

 Jakatia Pawa, an OFW in Kuwait was sentenced to death for the alleged murder of her employer's daughter. 
On January 19, 2010, the Court of Cassation (Kuwait’s Supreme Court) affirmed the decision of the Court of Appeals sentencing Jakatia to death for killing the 22-year-old daughter of her Kuwaiti employer in 2007. The victim died of 28 stab wounds.
The 32-year-old Overseas Filipino Worker (0FW) had been working for her employer for five years prior to the incident.





Her  family  is appealing to President Rodrigo Duterte to make a last hour attempt to save her life.

Lieutenant Colonel Gary Pawa said his sister Jakatia,  a domestic helper in Kuwait, told him in a phone call early Wednesday that her execution is scheduled on  Thursday as he told in an interview .
An OFW in Kuwait is scheduled to be executed tomorrow, January 26, 2017, but her kins are never losing hope and appealing to President Rodrigo Duterte to help help the OFW because they believe that she is innocent. Jakatia Pawa, an OFW in Kuwait was sentenced to death for the murder of her employer's daughter. On January 19, 2010, the Court of Cassation (Kuwait’s Supreme Court) affirmed the decision of the Court of Appeals sentencing Jakatia to death for killing the 22-year-old daughter of her Kuwaiti employer in 2007. The victim died of 28 stab wounds. The 32-year-old Overseas Filipino Worker (0FW) had been working for her employer for five years prior to the incident. Her family is appealing to President Rodrigo Duterte to make a last hour attempt to save her life. Lieutenant Colonel Gary Pawa said his sister Jakatia, a domestic helper in Kuwait, told him in a phone call early Wednesday that her execution is scheduled on Thursday. (We spoke earlier and she was saying goodbye, she said she would be executed tomorrow, there are three of them),” he told InterAksyon in a phone interview. Pawa said his 42-year-old sister was crying on the phone. (I was surprised when she called up today to say she would be executed tomorrow),” he said, Two months ago, he visited his sister and her lawyer spoke to him of positive developments that might pave the way for her freedom this year. However, Pawa still believe that his sister is innocent and President can still do something to save her sister from execution. (We appeal to President Duterte to talk to Kuwait [authorities] to save the life of my sister),” he said. The Philippine government-hired lawyers to represent Jakatia has also sought the assistance of the King of Spain, a friend of the Amir of Kuwait, to try and convince him to commute the sentence for humanitarian reasons. Former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo also wrote the Amir to spare Jakatia’s life. On her brothers phone conversation with Jakatia, the OFW bade goodbye with a request to take good care of her kids. A report by Maxxy Santiago, ABS-CBN Middle East News correspondent, said jail officials told Philippine Embassy officials about the execution scheduled at 7:30 Kuwait time (12:30 p.m. Manila time) Follow Maxxy Santiago @maxxymize DFA top officials meeting with Kuwaiti CDA to discuss last ditch efforts to save Jakatia Pawa. Let's pray for Pawa! 12:07 PM - 25 Jan 2017 · Pasay City, National Capital Region Retweets 11 like Follow Maxxy Santiago @maxxymize Praying for a miracle that OFW Jakatia Pawa be spared from the gallows as she is set to be executed today along with 3 others in Kuwait. 12:04 PM - 25 Jan 2017 · Pasay City, National Capital Region Retweets 22 likes ©2017 THOUGHTSKOTO

 (We spoke earlier and she was saying goodbye, she said she would be executed tomorrow, there are three of them),” he told InterAksyon in a phone interview.

Pawa said his 42-year-old sister was crying on the phone.
An OFW in Kuwait is scheduled to be executed tomorrow, January 26, 2017, but her kins are never losing hope and appealing to President Rodrigo Duterte to help help the OFW because they believe that she is innocent. Jakatia Pawa, an OFW in Kuwait was sentenced to death for the murder of her employer's daughter. On January 19, 2010, the Court of Cassation (Kuwait’s Supreme Court) affirmed the decision of the Court of Appeals sentencing Jakatia to death for killing the 22-year-old daughter of her Kuwaiti employer in 2007. The victim died of 28 stab wounds. The 32-year-old Overseas Filipino Worker (0FW) had been working for her employer for five years prior to the incident. Her family is appealing to President Rodrigo Duterte to make a last hour attempt to save her life. Lieutenant Colonel Gary Pawa said his sister Jakatia, a domestic helper in Kuwait, told him in a phone call early Wednesday that her execution is scheduled on Thursday. (We spoke earlier and she was saying goodbye, she said she would be executed tomorrow, there are three of them),” he told InterAksyon in a phone interview. Pawa said his 42-year-old sister was crying on the phone. (I was surprised when she called up today to say she would be executed tomorrow),” he said, Two months ago, he visited his sister and her lawyer spoke to him of positive developments that might pave the way for her freedom this year. However, Pawa still believe that his sister is innocent and President can still do something to save her sister from execution. (We appeal to President Duterte to talk to Kuwait [authorities] to save the life of my sister),” he said. The Philippine government-hired lawyers to represent Jakatia has also sought the assistance of the King of Spain, a friend of the Amir of Kuwait, to try and convince him to commute the sentence for humanitarian reasons. Former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo also wrote the Amir to spare Jakatia’s life. On her brothers phone conversation with Jakatia, the OFW bade goodbye with a request to take good care of her kids. A report by Maxxy Santiago, ABS-CBN Middle East News correspondent, said jail officials told Philippine Embassy officials about the execution scheduled at 7:30 Kuwait time (12:30 p.m. Manila time) Follow Maxxy Santiago @maxxymize DFA top officials meeting with Kuwaiti CDA to discuss last ditch efforts to save Jakatia Pawa. Let's pray for Pawa! 12:07 PM - 25 Jan 2017 · Pasay City, National Capital Region Retweets 11 like Follow Maxxy Santiago @maxxymize Praying for a miracle that OFW Jakatia Pawa be spared from the gallows as she is set to be executed today along with 3 others in Kuwait. 12:04 PM - 25 Jan 2017 · Pasay City, National Capital Region Retweets 22 likes ©2017 THOUGHTSKOTO

(I was surprised when she called up today to say she would be executed tomorrow),” he said,
  Two months ago, he visited his sister  and her lawyer spoke to him of positive developments that might pave the way for her freedom this year.




However, Pawa still believe that his sister is innocent and the  President can still do something to save his sister from execution.KIN OF OFW SCHEDULED FOR EXECUTION: "PRESIDENT DUTERTE, PLEASE HELP HER..."
 (We appeal to President Duterte to talk to Kuwait [authorities] to save the life of my sister),” he said.

The Philippine government-hired lawyers to represent Jakatia has also sought the assistance of the King of Spain,  a friend of the Amir of Kuwait, to try and convince him to commute the sentence for humanitarian reasons.

Former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo also wrote the Amir to spare Jakatia’s life.

On her brothers phone conversation with Jakatia, the OFW bade goodbye  with a request to take good care of her kids.
An OFW in Kuwait is scheduled to be executed tomorrow, January 26, 2017, but her kins are never losing hope and appealing to President Rodrigo Duterte to help help the OFW because they believe that she is innocent. Jakatia Pawa, an OFW in Kuwait was sentenced to death for the murder of her employer's daughter. On January 19, 2010, the Court of Cassation (Kuwait’s Supreme Court) affirmed the decision of the Court of Appeals sentencing Jakatia to death for killing the 22-year-old daughter of her Kuwaiti employer in 2007. The victim died of 28 stab wounds. The 32-year-old Overseas Filipino Worker (0FW) had been working for her employer for five years prior to the incident. Her family is appealing to President Rodrigo Duterte to make a last hour attempt to save her life. Lieutenant Colonel Gary Pawa said his sister Jakatia, a domestic helper in Kuwait, told him in a phone call early Wednesday that her execution is scheduled on Thursday. (We spoke earlier and she was saying goodbye, she said she would be executed tomorrow, there are three of them),” he told InterAksyon in a phone interview. Pawa said his 42-year-old sister was crying on the phone. (I was surprised when she called up today to say she would be executed tomorrow),” he said, Two months ago, he visited his sister and her lawyer spoke to him of positive developments that might pave the way for her freedom this year. However, Pawa still believe that his sister is innocent and President can still do something to save her sister from execution. (We appeal to President Duterte to talk to Kuwait [authorities] to save the life of my sister),” he said. The Philippine government-hired lawyers to represent Jakatia has also sought the assistance of the King of Spain, a friend of the Amir of Kuwait, to try and convince him to commute the sentence for humanitarian reasons. Former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo also wrote the Amir to spare Jakatia’s life. On her brothers phone conversation with Jakatia, the OFW bade goodbye with a request to take good care of her kids. A report by Maxxy Santiago, ABS-CBN Middle East News correspondent, said jail officials told Philippine Embassy officials about the execution scheduled at 7:30 Kuwait time (12:30 p.m. Manila time) Follow Maxxy Santiago @maxxymize DFA top officials meeting with Kuwaiti CDA to discuss last ditch efforts to save Jakatia Pawa. Let's pray for Pawa! 12:07 PM - 25 Jan 2017 · Pasay City, National Capital Region Retweets 11 like Follow Maxxy Santiago @maxxymize Praying for a miracle that OFW Jakatia Pawa be spared from the gallows as she is set to be executed today along with 3 others in Kuwait. 12:04 PM - 25 Jan 2017 · Pasay City, National Capital Region Retweets 22 likes ©2017 THOUGHTSKOTO


A report by Maxxy Santiago, ABS-CBN Middle East News correspondent, said jail officials told Philippine Embassy officials about the execution scheduled at 7:30 Kuwait time (12:30 p.m. Manila time)

Maxxy Santiago @maxxymize
DFA top officials meeting with Kuwaiti CDA to discuss last ditch efforts to save Jakatia Pawa. Let's pray for Pawa!
12:07 PM - 25 Jan 2017 · Pasay City, National Capital Region


Maxxy Santiago @maxxymize
Praying for a miracle that OFW Jakatia Pawa be spared from the gallows as she is set to be executed today along with 3 others in Kuwait.
 · Pasay City, National Capital Region





UPDATE:
Jakatia Pawa was already executed today January 25, 2017 at 10:19 AM Kuwait time, 3:19 Philippine time, according to the DFA.
The DFA said they they did everything to save the OFW from the execution and they had provided top lawyers but the family of the victim firmly refused to accept the blood money. The agency also said that they respect the Kuwait justice system. 

Jakatia Pawa's remains will be buried, as per Islamic rites, in Kuwait and DFA is coordinating to bring home at least the late OFW's belongings to her family in the Philippines.

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