Twenty-six grueling years away from the family. That’s how long Malou, an undocumented Filipina, has suffered while hiding in the shadows of the community in America, doing odd jobs on and off as a caregiver, nanny or house help.
Irene Bueno, a Filipino American public policy analyst based here, explained the key points of the U.S. Senate’s proposed immigration reform legislation at a recent community forum hosted by the Philippine Embassy.
Dozens of immigration reform activists rallied in front of Senator Dianne Feinstein’s (D-CA) office Thursday to put pressuring on her to protect and support family-based immigration.
With 14 Filipino mothers dying every day due to pregnancy complications, a respected international human rights organization and civil society groups on Wednesday scored a Supreme Court order stopping the implementation of the reproductive health law, saying it was putting at risk the lives of women in the country.
Before adjourning for the campaign, Congress approved a bill that would make it easier for overseas Filipinos to cast their vote, and change the way that the country recognizes its voters who are not in the country.
The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) recent warning that money laundering and other illegal finance-related activities could undermine a country’s financial system has made it urgent for Congress to pass the second round of amendments to the Anti-Money Money Laundering Act (AMLA).
Britain is urging the Philippines to pass reforms that will strengthen the country’s anti-money laundering law, saying the proposed legislation would help plug corruption and funding for terrorists.
The suggestion by a visiting International Monetary Fund (IMF) official that text messages be taxed next is “skewed and unfeeling,” and is actually “foreign meddling,” said Sen. Francis Escudero, who vowed to block any bill on the matter.
The bill providing compensation to victims of human rights violations under the martial law rule of Ferdinand Marcos is not just about money, but acknowledgement by the state of its lapses in protecting the people, President Benigno Aquino III said here Monday.
Akbayan Representative Walden Bello on Thursday said that he was confident the proposed measure for overseas voting would be passed before the midterm elections next year.
Alarmed by the rising number of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) turning up positive for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a lawmaker has urged sexually active Filipino seamen to voluntarily undergo testing to safeguard their partners at home in the Philippines and curb the spread of the dreaded disease.
Why not give defense second priority in government spending instead of amending the Constitution to put it over education at the top of the budget?
