OFW-Stories

Workers’ woes

Published by rudy Date posted on April 29, 2019

by Ana Marie Pamintuan (The Philippine Star) – Apr 29, 2019 This Wednesday being Labor Day, let’s take a look at the state of some of our workers overseas. There’s a Filipina caregiver I know who’s working in Cyprus. At 14, she had dropped out of school in her province to work as a maid…

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‘My OFW husband came home a different man’

Published by rudy Date posted on November 20, 2011

Vicky’s story began like those of many wives whose husbands leave to seek jobs overseas—full of hope for a better future.

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April 2025

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!
#WearMask #WashHands #Distancing #TakePicturesVideos

Time to support & empower survivors. Time to spark a global conversation. Time for #GenerationEquality to #orangetheworld!

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

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