| 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. |
| -Provide technical assistance and certifications as needed in relation to
licensed agencies or in illegal recruitment cases being assisted by the
volunteer organizations; and |
| 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. |