Press Release
March 23, 2018

JV: STOP 'FEEDING OUR WOMEN TO THE DOGS'

SENATOR JV Ejercito has called on the government to heed the sentiment of the Senate against deploying household workers in countries where their rights are violated and their welfare denied.

Ejercito made the call after the Senate on Wednesday adopted Senate Resolution No. 676 which expressed the sense of the Senate that the deployment of overseas Filipino household service workers to countries that do not afford migrants the same rights and work conditions as their nationals and allow withholding of Philippine Passport totally banned.

"It's like feeding them (Filipino household workers) to the dogs once they leave our country and this kind of deployment must end today...Our women will never be fully protected for as long as they are viewed upon as 'properties' by their employers and treated as aliens without rights...," he said in a manifestation of support for the resolution.

Ejercito also sought for a review, with the Department of Labor and Employment and the Department of Foreign Affairs, the Memorandum of Agreement for Filipino migrant workers in Kuwait, which is currently under negotiation.

"Let us not only review our labor policies with Kuwait. But more so with our countries in the Middle East like the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Dubai, and other countries where human rights violations on the Filipino workers have been monitored," he said.

News Latest News Feed