Gabriela Women’s Party on Monday urged the House of Representatives to investigate where the P250 million OWWA fund set aside last year for OFWs affected by the global financial crisis went.
“The Arroyo government’s so-called ‘assistance program’ for Filipino workers displaced by the global financial meltdown could be a ruse to divert millions of OFW money [...]
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January 19, 2009
HOUSE PROBE ON OFW ‘GLOBAL CRISIS FUND’ URGED
October 18, 2008
GABRIELA PARTY-LIST CONDEMNS ARROYO FOR BIDOYA’S BEHEADING, DEMANDS URGENT ACTION TO SAVE EX-GABRIELA LEADER ALCARAZ FROM DEATHROW
“There is no one else to blame for the beheading of Jenifer Bidoya but GMA. In favor of preparing an ostentatious welcome for current and future business partners in the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD), President Arroyo has further pushed aside the welfare of Filipinos abroad,” said Gabriela Women’s Party Rep. Luz Ilagan.
Bidoya [...]
October 16, 2008
GABRIELA SOLON UNITES WITH MIGRANTS AGAINST GFMD
“This is not just a show of the famed Filipino hospitality; This is a proof that migrant workers around the world are one in opposing the plan of business-minded governments to turn them into milking cows and modern-day slaves through the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD).”
GFMD is an informal multi-stakeholder process to be [...]
October 16, 2008
GMA IS THE GRINCH WHO STOLE NOT JUST CHRISTMAS – GABRIELA PARTY-LIST
“She has robbed them off their money, rights and even votes before; now she is depriving OFWs and their families a joyous Christmas,” says Rep. Luz Ilagan of Gabriela Women’s Party. “GMA is worse than the Grinch.”
According to Ilagan, “while Christmas has ceased to be a happy occasion for Filipino overseas workers because of the [...]
October 8, 2008
INTER-AGENCY COMMITTEE, WEAK; SABAH DEPORTEES, NEGLECTED – GABRIELA PARTY-LIST
Gabriela Women’s Party Rep. Luz Ilagan witnessed firsthand how a weak inter-agency committee formed by the Philippine government as a result of the RP-Malaysia Working Group in 2005 to ensure the humane detention and deportation of undocumented Filipino migrants in Sabah has neglected the deportees, during a Fact-Finding Mission in Zamboanga last October 2-6.
“The inter-agency [...]
August 26, 2008
PUBLIC CONSULTATIONS BEFORE CHARTER CHANGE -MAZA
Gabriela Women’s Party Representative Liza Maza today called on Congress to stop yielding to Malacanang’s call for Charter Change. “Let us not allow Congress to become the wielder of the wedge that will divide our people further. This is the last thing our country needs.”
Following the turmoil in Mindanao that came in the heels of [...]
July 29, 2008
Gabriela Women’s Party Online
Visit Gabriela Women’s Party’s official website. Access the latest press releases, copies of bills and resolutions filed and privilege speeches. Get updated on campaign issues and whats going on in Gabriela Women’s Party’s regional chapters.
http://gabrielawomensparty.net
July 29, 2008
POVERTY IN MINDANAO IS STATE-INITIATED
“Terrorism in Mindanao is State-initiated, therefore, it follows that poverty in Mindanao is also caused by the Arroyo government.”
This was the statement of Gabriela Women’s Party Representative Luzviminda Ilagan, following President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s claim during the State of the Nation Address that her administration’s failure to alleviate poverty in Mindanao, is due to the [...]
July 25, 2008
GMA STUNTED THE GROWTH OF OUR CHILDREN – GABRIELA SOLON
“GMA’s incompetence as a leader stunted the growth of our children,” Gabriela Women’s Party Rep. Luzviminda Ilagan said during a press conference entitled ‘State of Nation’s Children Address organized by the Salinlahi Alliance for Children’s Concerns today. “She deprived 29 million children in the Philippines their basic rights to life, survival and development as enshrined [...]
