MANILA, Philippines – There are around 3,000 Filipinos detained overseas on criminal charges, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) reported yesterday.
DFA said 70 percent of these have committed immigration-related offenses, while the rest are in custody for theft, drug trafficking and other common crimes.
Sixty-two Filipinos are detained in nine countries in the Middle East for drug related offenses, while 43 others, most of them women, are detained in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
One of them, a certain Jason Mallorca Pineda, who was jailed in Dammam, Saudi Arabia in 2008 for allegedly receiving 21.2 grams of methamphetamine and selling it to fellow Filipinos, is awaiting the final decision of the Grand Court of Dammam.
Saudi authorities said he confessed to the crime. He remains in detention since Saudi law does not grant bail for drug-related offenses and has zero tolerance for such offenses. –Pia Lee-Brago (The Philippine Star)
World Day for Safety and Health at Work
“Safety and health at work every day!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar to carry out the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry recommendations against serious violations of Forced Labour and Freedom of Association protocols.
Accept National Unity Government
(NUG) of Myanmar.
Reject Military!
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Monthly Observances:
March – Women’s Role in History Month
April – Month of Planet Earth
Weekly Observances:
Last Week of March: Protection and Gender Fair Treatment of the Girl Child Week
Last Week of April – World Immunization Week
Daily Observances:
Mar 25 – International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transallantic Slave Trade
Mar 27– Earth Hour
Apr 21 – Civil Service Day
Apr 22 – World Earth Day
Apr 28 – World Day for Safety and Health at Work
