KASAMA Vol. 18 No. 2 / April-May-June 2004 / Solidarity Philippines Australia Network

 

'It has been the tradition of PMRW to hold a public forum on migrants issues every December of each year since 1997 to celebrate the adoption of the UN Migrant Workers Convention by the UN General Assembly. Other migrant organizations followed suit until the UN decided in 2000 to declare December 18 as the International Migrants Day.

' This year, following the entry into force of the Migrant Convention on July 1, 2003, we deem it fitting to hold a global forum - an OFW World Congress - to bring together the significant labor migration stakeholders, particularly the OFWs themselves, in a forum to discuss their issues and concerns, exchange information, best practices and solidarity with the end in view of shaping together and putting forward the migrants' agenda in the national and international agenda.

' The main topics to be discussed during the conference are as follows:

• International conventions, migrants' rights and migrants' rights education.
• Philippine GOs' commitments for the OFWs' welfare.
• Gender dimensions of Philippine labor migration.
• Unauthorized migration and trafficking.
• Emerging trends in the global labor market/the role of the migration industry.
• Migration/integration policies of receiving countries.
• OFWs and overseas Filipinos as political actors (Absentee Voting Law).
• Dual citizenship.
• Reintegration programs
• Transnational linkages (Good practices and solidarity projects).
• Filipino migrants and transnationals as culture bearers (i.e., as bearers of Filipino culture abroad; as bearers of other cultures in the Philippines).
• Social costs of migration.

'For inquiries and more information, please visit the Philippine Migrants Rights Watch website at http://www.pmrw.org/ or send an email to

'Many thanks and best regards,

Ellene A. Sana
for the Center for Migrant Advocacy (CMA) and
Philippine Migrants Rights Watch (PMRW)

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