Jinggoy pushes probe of OFW deaths
09/24/2011Alarmed by the rising number of tragic deaths of overseas Filipino workers, Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Estrada has called for an in-vestigation into the reported fatalities to determine if government officials have already addressed the situation.
Estrada, also the concurrent chairman of the committee on labor, employment and human resources development and of the joint congressional oversight committee on overseas workers’ affairs, also expressed sympathy with the family and relatives of OFWs whose bodies were recently repatriated.
“There should be a thorough investigation on the part of the Philippine embassies in countries where our OFWs had been victims of brutal and unnerving maltreatment. We owe our modern heroes and fellow Filipinos justice and final resolution of their cases,” Estrada stressed.
One of these cases is the death of Joy Pampangan, 25, an OFW whose body was sent home a year after her questionable death from Jordan..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20110924hed5.html
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"Heinous" is indeed the right term. kahindik hindik ang mga sinapit, ang kamatayan ng ilang mga ofws natin. Biktima ng mga ANIMAL na employers at ng WALANG PUSO at WALANG PAKIALAM na DFA, OWWA, ng dilaw na pamahalaan na sipsip ng dugo ang pakay.
"“The heinous deaths of our kababayans must prompt embassy and labor officials to step up in its efforts to proactively protect our workers from abusive employers and illegal recruiters,” he added."
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