Migration of Health Professionals: Boon or Bane?

Migrant worker death convict comes home
Manila Standard Today - Manila,Philippines
A migrant worker, who was sentenced to die for killing a fellow Filipino in
1999, has returned home from Saudi Arabia, repentant but in one piece. ...
<http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=police1_feb7_2007>

Kasarinlan Review: Children of Globalization
By UP Third World Studies Center(UP Third World Studies Center)
First published in Kasarinlan: Philippine Journal of Third World Studies 20,
... working abroad to support their families back home in the Philippines. ...
At the same time, there arose a high demand for contract migrant workers in the ...
<http://uptwsc.blogspot.com/2007/02/kasarinlan-review-children-of.html>
THIRD WORLD STUDIES CENTER
<http://uptwsc.blogspot.com/index.html>

After the worship
Taken after the sunday worship inside the philippine room.
<http://seoulmigrant.multiply.com/video/item/2>
Seoul Migrant Mission Center
<http://seoulmigrant.multiply.com/>

Migration of Health Professionals: Boon or Bane?
By Health Action Information Network
In the Philippines, 85 percent of registered nurses are working abroad. ...
On the upside, remittances from migrant workers are keeping the source ...
In the Philippines, data from the Philippine Hospital Association showed that 200 ...
<http://hain-articles.blogspot.com/2007/02/migration-of-health-professionals-boon.html>
HAIN Articles
<http://hain-articles.blogspot.com>

Studies finds violence against women and off-street prostitution ...
By webmaster
... Chairperson of the Philippine Women Centre of BC, the host organization. ...
debt, and socio-economic isolation as immigrant women and migrant workers." ...
and speeches from Filipino youth, women, professionals and migrant workers. ...
<http://kalayaancentre.net/pwcofbc/?p=63>
Philippine Women Centre of BC
<http://kalayaancentre.net/pwcofbc>

Taiwan News Online
Philippine migrant workers facing degrading labor practices in Qatar ...
Karina, (last name withheld upon request), a Philippine woman, stands in
front of ...
<http://www.taiwannews.com.tw/etn/news_content.php?id=382896&lang=eng_news&cate_img=logo_world&cate_rss=WORLD_eng>

New requirements for outbound domestic workers
News Today Online - Iloilo City,Iloilo,Philippines
Newly hired Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) employed as household service
workers (HSWs) including caregivers or caretakers have to comply two
mandatory ...
<http://www.thenewstoday.info/2007/02/07/new.requirements.for.outbound.domestic.workers.html>

GWU complaint to ETC
Malta Independent Online - Malta
The case centres around the engagement of two Filipino workers who were
supposedly brought to Malta to teach. The union said that Maltese workers
should be ...
<http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=45961>

Daily News Reader
Philippine Information Agency - Philippines
The government strictly prohibits Filipinos from entering the war-torn
country to prevent a repetition of the abduction of a Filipino workers. ...
<http://www.pia.gov.ph/default.asp?m=12&sec=reader&fi=p070208.htm>

Filipino workers striped bare
Courier Mail - Australia
THREE Filipino workers say they have been left with almost nothing after
their former employer allegedly broke into their rented Brisbane home and
took all ...
<http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,21188316-3102,00.html>

Drowning Victims Repatriated To Manila
Bru Direct - Brunei Darussalam
Bandar Seri Begawan - The remains of two Filipino drowning victims in
Berakas will be repatriated to Manila via Royal Brunei Airlines flight BI
683 this ...
<http://www.brudirect.com/DailyInfo/News/Archive/Feb07/080207/nite07.htm>

Roundup of Recent Non-Sudan Items
By Eric Jon Magnuson
"Migrant boat left stranded off West Africa" (Reuters) ... "Mauritania Red
Crescent sends aid to stranded migrant boat" (AP; related) ... "Gunmen kidnap
Filipino from convoy in latest Nigeria oil-region violence" (AP; related) ...
<http://platform.blogs.com/passionofthepresent/2007/02/roundup_of_rece_4.html>
Sudan: The Passion of the Present
<http://platform.blogs.com/passionofthepresent/>