| Manila, Sept. 14,1998 - The Estrada administrations legal offensive against
illegal recruiters and their foreign cohorts has been intensified with the
recent signing in Davao City of a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) that would
provide free legal services to overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who have
been victimized by illegal recruiters . |
| The IBP Davao City chapter, Ateneo Legal Services Office, UM Legal Aid
Office and Southern Philippines Federation of Labor, on the other hand, have
agreed to: |
| The stepped-up campaign was waged following President Joseph Erap Ejercito
Estradas fresh crackdown on illegal recruiters in the light of the
suspected systematic murder of OFWs, whose organs are being sold by an
international syndicate in cahoots with unscrupulous Filipino recruiters. |
| The MOA was signed by Regalado, OWWA Administrator Eleuterio Gardiner, IBA
Davao City Chapter President Laurente Ilagan, Ateneo Legal Services Office
Executive Director Fr. Agustin Nazareno, UM Legal Aid Office Suising
Attorney Renato Pagatpatan and Southern Philippines Federation of Labor
National Secretary and Legal Counsel Wilbur Fuentes. |
| A friend of mine works for Utahs Division of Services for
Disabled Persons (DSPD). Theyre in the same suite as the
Division of Child and Family Service (DCFS). He says he has
absolutely no respect for the way the operate (biased,
illogical). One of his coworkers is a woman who, in her
own words, defected from DCFS because of what she sees
as unfair operating procedures. She (Ill call her Jane)
told my friend that when women called them asking for free
legal help, they were instructed to refer the women to Utah
Legal Services. |
