The project is implemented in partnership with Arbeiterwohlfahrt International, e.V. (AWO International) Regional Office-Southeast Asia, and was launched on September 1, 2021. It aims to strengthen detection mechanisms to screen overseas Filipino workers, who are leaving through illegal and unsafe situations in various levels by revising protocols for detection, increase access to ethical recruitment channels, […]
By Riza Ramirez-Flores, Social Worker One of the major components for the recovery of victim-survivors of severe exploitation and violence abroad is social and economic reintegration, which includes programs for psychosocial support and counseling, as well as life skills, livelihood training and employment in sustainable jobs. The Blas F. Ople Policy Center and Training Institute […]
By Noel PadalhinMonitoring and Evaluation Officer and Mark Borromeo Data Protection Officer The Philippines had set a new record in being the first ASEAN country to have maintained a Tier 1 category ranking in the U.S. Department of State’s Trafficking-in-Persons Report 2020 for five years straight, an elite ranking in terms of trafficking response. The […]
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October 23, 2020 Former labor undersecretary and OFW advocate Susan Ople has been appointed to the Board of Trustees of the United Nations Trust Fund for Victims of Human Trafficking, according to Director-General and Executive Director Ghada Fatha Waly of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). According to the records of the […]
CNN Philippine Guests: Susan V. Ople, President, Ople Center & Cong. Raymond D. Mendoza, TUCP Partylist
Link: https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/01/04/20/ex-labor-official-calls-for-better-protection-monitoring-of-ofws-after-pinay-death-in-taiwan?fbclid=IwAR1HyBpKeChfs82arcW6WLe-CZnW9p8J5XQoeI8X2f-zhLE1jaUbchlNvnQ
January 1, 2020 The Blas F. Ople Policy Center urged the Senate and House committees on labor as well as OFW affairs to conduct a joint hearing on the recent killing of a Filipino domestic worker in Kuwait by her lady employer, particularly on the capacity of both the government and private sectors to effectively […]
