Photo Release

Looking into the plight of OFWs: Senator Joel Villanueva (center), chairman of the Senate Committee on Labor, Employment and Human Resources, asks labor officials to enumerate the steps the labor department has taken to update its deployment protocols and prevent the abuse of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) during a committee hearing, Wednesday, May 23, 2018. Villanueva called for a review the Overseas Employment Program in view of the death of domestic helper Joana Demafelis, whose body was found in a freezer in Kuwait. Also in photo are Senators JV Ejercito and Nancy Binay. (PRIB Photo by Cesar Tomambo/AYA/23 May 2018)