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Showing posts with label modern slavery. Show all posts
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Tuesday, March 06, 2018

As an OFW, What You Should Do In Case of Abuse? Here's Govt Suggestion

Maltreatment or abuse of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) while working abroad is a very common thing especially for Filipino maids. According to Philippine Statistics Authority, one in every two Filipino women working abroad is employed as household service workers or service sectors.
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These household service workers are common victims of maltreatment and abuse. They also have the highest risk of modern slavery, forced labor, deprivation of rights, and sexual and physical abuse from their employers. This is one of the main reasons why the government impose a ban on OFW deployment in Kuwait, aside from the murder case of Joana Demafelis. Sponsored Links But as an OFW, what should be done in case of abuse or maltreatment? According to Department of Labor and Employment Chief Silvestre Bello III, OFW experiencing maltreatment or abuse should immediately report the incident to the POLO office. Bello said, having their cellphones and passport with them is very important so that they can easily get help in case of danger in the hands of their employer. Bello added, they are pushing for this new provisions for further protect the OFWs.
These household service workers are common victims of maltreatment and abuse. They also have the highest risk of modern slavery, forced labor, deprivation of rights, and sexual and physical abuse from their employers.

This is one of the main reasons why the government impose a ban on OFW deployment in Kuwait, aside from the murder case of Joana Demafelis.
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But as an OFW, what should be done in case of abuse or maltreatment? According to Department of Labor and Employment Chief Silvestre Bello III, OFW experiencing maltreatment or abuse should immediately report the incident to the POLO office.



Bello said, having their cellphones and passport with them is very important so that they can easily get help in case of danger in the hands of their employer. Bello added, they are pushing for this new provisions for further protect the OFWs.
Many employers in the Middle East and other countries confiscate the cell phone and passport of their workers. Aside from this, Bello remind the recruitment agencies to monitor the situation and condition of their deployed OFWs.


In spite of what happened to Demafelis and the growing number of reported abuse abroad, many Filipino workers are still wanting to go abroad to earn big for their family back home.
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Bullying in school still exists in spite of the passage of Republic Act 10627 or Anti-Bullying Act in 2013. This is one of many problems in school grounds or campuses all over the country that greatly affect the emotional, psychological and even physical well-being of a student. Bullying knows no age in school, it all happens in kindergartens, elementary, high school or even college students. Read more: http://www.jbsolis.com/2018/03/watch-viral-video-of-bullying-in-lucena.html#ixzz58wr3pNyH
Are you looking for jobs abroad? Why don't you consider working in Japan? This 2018 job vacancies in Japan reaches around 3,000 for Filipino workers. This latest job orders are taken from employment site of Philippine Overseas Employment Administration. There are many companies in Japan who wants to hire Filipino workers and continuously hiring Filipino workers every month. International employment opportunities in Japan are open for welders, engineers, farm workers, painter scaffolders, livestock agriculture workers, IT jobs or programmers among other. Read more: http://www.jbsolis.com/2018/03/3000-latest-job-vacancies-open-for-filipinos-who-wants-to-work-in-Japan.html#ixzz58wrLp5pB
New Zealand is another country hiring for Filipino workers every month. This March 2018 there are 1, 188 vacancies in New Zealand opened for Filipino workers. Jobs included welder, carpenter, painter, driver, machinist and many others. Below is the full list of job orders from the job site or employment site of Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA). Read more: http://www.jbsolis.com/2018/03/looking-for-jobs-abroad-new-zealand-has-1188-vacancies-for-filipinos.html#ixzz58wriZZcE

Are you looking for opportunities for international employment or jobs abroad? Singapore and Malaysia are now hiring for Filipino workers to fill-in their local employment. This month of March, the following are job orders from employment site of Philippines Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) for Malaysia and Singapore! Many job orders are open to Filipino workers! Read more: http://www.jbsolis.com/2018/03/poea-approved-jobs-to-singapore-and-malaysia.html#ixzz58wrwc1Qp
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Thursday, March 02, 2017

HORROR OF TORTURE, ABUSE AND HARRASSMENT OF HOUSEMAIDS IN SAUDI ARABIA.

The stories of maltreatment and abuse of household workers in Saudi Arabia can be seen in the news almost everyday. New cases after another without any resolution on how to protect the rights victims and penalize the abusive employers. Author and political analyst Colin S. Cavell, says the practice of sexual slavery has deep roots within Saudi Arabia’s political system and can hardly be eliminated unless the regime changes. “The practice of sexual slavery is able to continue in the kingdom because of the structure of the regime in Saudi Arabia. It is a corrupt regime run by… a family dynasty that is unelected and rules with an iron fist,” he said. “In Saudi Arabia, especially immigrant laborers, who constitute over half of the national workforce, are subjected to continuous abuse, rape, beatings, and murder, they have their passports confiscated once they arrive in the country by their employers and are manipulated by the sponsorship system which amounts to modern-day slavery, ” he added. Two Indian housemaids recalled their ordeal working in an abusive employer in Saudi Arabia. 38-year-old Noorjahan Akbar Husen said that her Saudi employer treated her very badly, harass, torture and beat her everyday. Noorjahan said that they were scammed by her recruiter in Mumbai. The recruiter promised to provide a job for them in Riyadh, but offered a different one in Dammam, Saudi Arabia. She was separated from her husband right after landing in Saudi Arabia, and held captive, tortured, and harassed on a daily basis. She said she was also forced to work for a “home service,” which is a byword for the flesh trade in Saudi Arabia. She struggled to gain back her freedom for several years. Noorjahan said that she saw some 200 women who share the same fate as hers in Dammam alone. Another former housemaid in Al Qassim area, Anjum Fatima was also a victim of abuse and maltreatment. Her recruiter promised her to work in Medina as a cook but instead brought to Al Qassim and worked as a housemaid. she said they made her work until 2am everyday even she was sick. If the employer are not satisfied with her work, they would throw hot water on her face. These stories are no different from the Filipina OFWs who work as a household service workers. Aside from not giving a day-off and making them work long hours, the employers hold their passports and some of them were not given an iqama. Some of them has been raped and maltreated . Some of them even come home lifeless. The story of an OFW named Fatma who worked in Riyadh for only 2 months is one of the most evident proof of the severe maltreatment of the household workers in Saudi Arabia. A deployment moratorium for Hosehold service workers in the Middle East is underway as DOLE Secretary Silvestre Bello III is considering the suspension of deployment of OFWs in the Middle East because of the growing number of abuse and maltreatment among them. The horror of the abuses experienced by the household workers in Saudi Arabia as well as other countries in the Middle East is real and more than the physical pain, the psychological trauma will give them the chills and sleepless nights, haunting them for the rest of their lives. RECOMMENDED: 10 TIPS ON HOW TO SPOT A FAKE NEWS ASEAN LEADERS TO CREATE PROTECTION RULES FOR MIGRANT WORKERS OFW GETS HARSH WORDS FROM OWN BROTHER BEFORE YOU GET MARRIED,BE AWARE OF THIS ISRAEL TO HIRE HUNDREDS OF FILIPINOS FOR HOTEL JOBS MALLS WITH OSSCO AND OTHER GOVERNMENT SERVICES DOMESTIC ABUSE EXPOSED ON SOCIAL MEDIA HSW IN KUWAIT: NO SALARY FOR 9 YEARS DEATH COMPENSATION FOR SAUDI EXPATS ON JAKATIA PAWA'S EXECUTION: "WE DID EVERYTHING.." -DFA BELLO ASSURES DECISION ON MORATORIUM MAY COME OUT ANYTIME SOON SEN. JOEL VILLANUEVA SUPPORTS DEPLOYMENT BAN ON HSWS IN KUWAIT AT LEAST 71 OFWS ON DEATH ROW ABROAD DEPLOYMENT MORATORIUM, NOW! -OFW GROUPS BE CAREFUL HOW YOU TREAT YOUR HSWS PRESIDENT DUTERTE WILL VISIT UAE AND KSA, HERE'S WHY MANPOWER AGENCIES AND RECRUITMENT COMPANIES TO BE HIT DIRECTLY BY HSW DEPLOYMENT MORATORIUM IN KUWAIT UAE TO START IMPLEMENTING 5%VAT STARTING 2018 REMEMBER THIS 7 THINGS IF YOU ARE APPLYING FOR HOUSEKEEPING JOB IN JAPAN KENYA , THE LEAST TOXIC COUNTRY IN THE WORLD; SAUDI ARABIA, MOST TOXIC "JUNIOR CITIZEN " BILL TO BENEFIT POOR FAMILIES



The stories of maltreatment and abuse of household workers in Saudi Arabia can be seen in the news almost everyday. New cases after another without any resolution on how to protect the rights victims and penalize the abusive employers.  


 Author and political analyst Colin S. Cavell, says the practice of sexual slavery has deep roots within Saudi Arabia’s political system and can hardly be eliminated unless the regime changes.

“The practice of sexual slavery is able to continue in the kingdom because of the structure of the regime in Saudi Arabia. It is a corrupt regime run by… a family dynasty that is unelected and rules with an iron fist,”  he said.

“In Saudi Arabia, especially immigrant laborers, who constitute over half of the national workforce, are subjected to continuous abuse, rape, beatings, and murder, they have their passports confiscated once they arrive in the country by their employers and are manipulated by the sponsorship system which amounts to modern-day slavery, ” he added.



Two Indian housemaids recalled their ordeal working in an abusive employer in Saudi Arabia. 38-year-old Noorjahan Akbar Husen said that her Saudi employer treated her very badly, harass, torture and beat her everyday.
The stories of maltreatment and abuse of household workers in Saudi Arabia can be seen in the news almost everyday. New cases after another without any resolution on how to protect the rights victims and penalize the abusive employers. Author and political analyst Colin S. Cavell, says the practice of sexual slavery has deep roots within Saudi Arabia’s political system and can hardly be eliminated unless the regime changes. “The practice of sexual slavery is able to continue in the kingdom because of the structure of the regime in Saudi Arabia. It is a corrupt regime run by… a family dynasty that is unelected and rules with an iron fist,” he said. “In Saudi Arabia, especially immigrant laborers, who constitute over half of the national workforce, are subjected to continuous abuse, rape, beatings, and murder, they have their passports confiscated once they arrive in the country by their employers and are manipulated by the sponsorship system which amounts to modern-day slavery, ” he added. Two Indian housemaids recalled their ordeal working in an abusive employer in Saudi Arabia. 38-year-old Noorjahan Akbar Husen said that her Saudi employer treated her very badly, harass, torture and beat her everyday. Noorjahan said that they were scammed by her recruiter in Mumbai. The recruiter promised to provide a job for them in Riyadh, but offered a different one in Dammam, Saudi Arabia. She was separated from her husband right after landing in Saudi Arabia, and held captive, tortured, and harassed on a daily basis. She said she was also forced to work for a “home service,” which is a byword for the flesh trade in Saudi Arabia. She struggled to gain back her freedom for several years. Noorjahan said that she saw some 200 women who share the same fate as hers in Dammam alone. Another former housemaid in Al Qassim area, Anjum Fatima was also a victim of abuse and maltreatment. Her recruiter promised her to work in Medina as a cook but instead brought to Al Qassim and worked as a housemaid. she said they made her work until 2am everyday even she was sick. If the employer are not satisfied with her work, they would throw hot water on her face. These stories are no different from the Filipina OFWs who work as a household service workers. Aside from not giving a day-off and making them work long hours, the employers hold their passports and some of them were not given an iqama. Some of them has been raped and maltreated . Some of them even come home lifeless. The story of an OFW named Fatma who worked in Riyadh for only 2 months is one of the most evident proof of the severe maltreatment of the household workers in Saudi Arabia. A deployment moratorium for Hosehold service workers in the Middle East is underway as DOLE Secretary Silvestre Bello III is considering the suspension of deployment of OFWs in the Middle East because of the growing number of abuse and maltreatment among them. The horror of the abuses experienced by the household workers in Saudi Arabia as well as other countries in the Middle East is real and more than the physical pain, the psychological trauma will give them the chills and sleepless nights, haunting them for the rest of their lives. RECOMMENDED: 10 TIPS ON HOW TO SPOT A FAKE NEWS ASEAN LEADERS TO CREATE PROTECTION RULES FOR MIGRANT WORKERS OFW GETS HARSH WORDS FROM OWN BROTHER BEFORE YOU GET MARRIED,BE AWARE OF THIS ISRAEL TO HIRE HUNDREDS OF FILIPINOS FOR HOTEL JOBS MALLS WITH OSSCO AND OTHER GOVERNMENT SERVICES DOMESTIC ABUSE EXPOSED ON SOCIAL MEDIA HSW IN KUWAIT: NO SALARY FOR 9 YEARS DEATH COMPENSATION FOR SAUDI EXPATS ON JAKATIA PAWA'S EXECUTION: "WE DID EVERYTHING.." -DFA BELLO ASSURES DECISION ON MORATORIUM MAY COME OUT ANYTIME SOON SEN. JOEL VILLANUEVA SUPPORTS DEPLOYMENT BAN ON HSWS IN KUWAIT AT LEAST 71 OFWS ON DEATH ROW ABROAD DEPLOYMENT MORATORIUM, NOW! -OFW GROUPS BE CAREFUL HOW YOU TREAT YOUR HSWS PRESIDENT DUTERTE WILL VISIT UAE AND KSA, HERE'S WHY MANPOWER AGENCIES AND RECRUITMENT COMPANIES TO BE HIT DIRECTLY BY HSW DEPLOYMENT MORATORIUM IN KUWAIT UAE TO START IMPLEMENTING 5%VAT STARTING 2018 REMEMBER THIS 7 THINGS IF YOU ARE APPLYING FOR HOUSEKEEPING JOB IN JAPAN KENYA , THE LEAST TOXIC COUNTRY IN THE WORLD; SAUDI ARABIA, MOST TOXIC "JUNIOR CITIZEN " BILL TO BENEFIT POOR FAMILIES

 Noorjahan said that they were scammed by her recruiter in Mumbai. The recruiter promised to provide a job for them in Riyadh, but offered a different one in Dammam, Saudi Arabia. She was separated from her husband right after landing in Saudi Arabia, and held captive, tortured, and harassed on a daily basis. She said she was also forced to work for a “home service,” which is a byword for the flesh trade in Saudi Arabia. She struggled to gain back her freedom for several years. Noorjahan said that she saw some 200 women who share the same fate as hers in Dammam alone.

 Another former housemaid in Al Qassim area, Anjum Fatima was also a victim of abuse and maltreatment.
Her recruiter promised her to work in Medina as a cook but instead brought to Al Qassim and worked as a housemaid. she said they made her work until 2am everyday even she was sick. If the employer are not satisfied with her work, they would throw hot water on her face.

 These stories are no different from the Filipina OFWs who work as a household service workers. Aside from not giving a day-off and making them work long hours, the employers hold their passports and some of them were not given an iqama. Some of them has been raped and maltreated . Some of them even come home lifeless.
The story of an OFW named Fatma who worked in Riyadh for only 2 months is one of the most evident proof of the severe maltreatment of the household workers in Saudi Arabia.



A deployment moratorium for household service workers in the Middle East is underway as DOLE  Secretary Silvestre Bello III is considering the suspension of deployment of OFWs in the Middle East because of the growing number of abuse and maltreatment among them.

 The horror of the abuses  experienced by the household workers in Saudi Arabia as well as other countries in the Middle East is real and more than the physical pain, the psychological trauma will give them the chills and sleepless nights, haunting them for the rest of their lives.

  There is no need to wait until the deployment ban of HSWs is approved and implemented. With hundreds of real life stories of abused, raped, maltreated and those who died from these inhumane treatment. Why would anyone want to share the same fate? It starts with us. OFWs should not take the risk of working in Saudi Arabia. Try applying somewhere else.
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BELLO ASSURES DECISION ON MORATORIUM MAY COME OUT ANYTIME SOON

SEN. JOEL VILLANUEVA  SUPPORTS DEPLOYMENT BAN ON HSWS IN KUWAIT

AT LEAST 71 OFWS ON DEATH ROW ABROAD

DEPLOYMENT MORATORIUM, NOW! -OFW GROUPS

BE CAREFUL HOW YOU TREAT YOUR HSWS

PRESIDENT DUTERTE WILL VISIT UAE AND KSA, HERE'S WHY

MANPOWER AGENCIES AND RECRUITMENT COMPANIES TO BE HIT DIRECTLY BY HSW DEPLOYMENT MORATORIUM IN KUWAIT

UAE TO START IMPLEMENTING 5%VAT STARTING 2018

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KENYA , THE LEAST TOXIC COUNTRY IN THE WORLD; SAUDI ARABIA, MOST TOXIC

"JUNIOR CITIZEN "  BILL TO BENEFIT POOR FAMILIES

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