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The Hataman-Dumarpa Anti-Discrimination Bill

Rep. Mujiv Hataman of AMIN Party List and Rep. Faysah RPM Dumarpa of Lanao del Sur had filed two different bills on anti-Discrimination. Their bills are now being consolidated into one.

This consolidated bill is now on the process of being formulated and framed. We would like to hear your views about this bill and help contirbute to its construction by making your comments on its draft posted here.

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Seek Hezbollah help on OFWs, gov’t urged

By Norman Bordadora
Inquirer (INQ7.net)

THE government would do better by coordinating with the Hezbollah group concerning the plight of Filipinos working in Lebanon, according to a member of a peace mission to the war-torn country.

More than the Lebanese government, the Hezbollah had empathy for the migrant worker and the capacity to look after Filipino workers in their territory, said Walden Bello, a sociology professor at the University of the Philippines.

“I suggest that the (Philippine) embassy talk to the Hezbollah and convince them to allocate some funds for the protection of the migrant workers,” said Bello, a member of an International Civil Society-Parliamentary Peace Mission to Lebanon.

Bello and two other members of the Philippine contingent of the mission—Anak Mindanao Rep. Mujiv Hataman and Herbert Docena of the Stop the War Coalition-Philippines—told a news conference yesterday that Filipino domestic workers were treated “almost like slaves” by Lebanese employers.

Several OFWs in Lebanon refuse to come home: solon

from Sun.Star Zamboanga

PARTY-list Rep. Mujiv Hataman of Anak Mindanao (Amin) disclosed that several overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in strife-torn Lebanon have refused to come home despite the mandatory evacuation of the government.

The order for mandatory evacuation was issued by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo after Israeli troops had continue to attack Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon.

Hataman said on Monday over RGMA-Super Radyo from Beirut that several OFWs are willing to take the risk than to return to the Philippines, saying "we don't have jobs to earn a living" in the country.

Hataman is in Beirut, as he was invited to join the group of peace corps from different countries, to visit and see the prevailing situation in Lebanon.

Of course, he said, there are also those who are eager to go home especially the ones working in southern Lebanon, the center of Israel's attack on Hezbollah guerrillas.

He said there was another batch of 461 OFWs who boarded buses on Sunday to Damascus, where they will take the plane back to the Philippines.

Over 30,000 OFWs are in Lebanon. Since July 23 to August 10, there were already 3,710 OFWs who had returned home.

Why we are going to Lebanon

By Walden Bello
INQ7.net

Statement of Dr. Walden Bello, member of the Philippine Contingent of the International Civil Society-Parliamentary Peace Mission to Lebanon, Aug. 10, 2006

Today, the 30th day of Israel's military offensive on Lebanon, the number of Lebanese who have died as a result of Israeli air strikes and ground attacks has reached 1,020, the number injured 3,508.

The Lebanese High Relief Committee has also disclosed destruction or damage to 29 vital installations, 6950 private homes, 160 economic establishments, 600 kilometers of roads, 73 fuel stations, 73 bridges, and 72 overpasses. (Daily Report # 16, Lebanese High Relief Committee).

The three of us, Representative Mujiv Hataman, Mr. Herbert Docena and myself, are
leaving for Lebanon this evening as part of an International Peace Delegation of 15 people. The main reason we are going stems from the horrific statistics I have just cited.