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| 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 MOA was signed recently in Davao City by the Philippine Overseas
Employment Administration (POEA), the Overseas Workers Welfare
Administration (OWWA), the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) Davao
City chapter, the Ateneo Legal Services Office, the University of Mindanao
Legal Aid Office, and the Southern Philippines Federation of Labor (SPFL). |
| 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. |
| Utah Legal Services would tell the a woman calling for legal
assistance that they could only help if the woman were willing
to make an allegation of abuse. Jane said she was amazed at how
often that within 5 or 10 minutes of referring women to Utah
Legal Services the women called back saying, I need to report
abuse on the part of my husband (or ex-husband, or boyfriend, or
ex-boyfriend). Legal Services and their associates should get
no public funding. |
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