overseas Filipino workers
IBON Executive Director on the recent US bombings against Iran
June 22, 2025
The Philippine government should stop aligning with militarists and instead condemn the unprovoked US-Israel aggression against Iran.
IBON Research Head on Duterte supporters’ call for a week of OFW Zero Remittance
March 26, 2025
“Zero Remittance was a political campaign started by the International Migrants Alliance in 2008, at the time of the global financial crisis, the outset of the global economic stagnation we know today. It was launched to signify migrants’ protest against n neoliberal policies and the financial abuses stemming from these…”
Until our Mary Janes come home
October 22, 2019
Did you also feel your world stop in 2015 when we thought that Indonesia had executed overseas Filipino worker (OFW) Mary Jane Veloso? Please, not another Flor Contemplacion, not another OFW coming home in a balikbayan box. Putting her kids through school was Mary Jane’s only compulsion for leaving her family and homeland for any […]
