Overseas Filipinos

Below is a list of articles on Overseas Filipinos available in this website.

Filipino Migration to Europe: Country Profiles

Urgent Appeal to Migrant Families on Absentee Voting Bill
Platform of Filipino Organizations in Europe, 14 January 2002


Materials on Overseas Voting



Enfranchising Overseas Filipinos Worldwide: A Call to Action
EMPOWER (Global Coalition for the Political Empowerment of Overseas Filipinos), March 2001

Programme of Action to Promote the Welfare and Protect the Rights and Interests of the Filipino Seafarer in the 21st Century
International Conference:"The Filipino Seafarer in the 21st Century Issues and Interests Aboard and Ashore"
Rotterdam, 20-21 June 2002

The Development Potential of Migration
by ERCOF (Economic Research Center for Overseas Filipinos)

Filipino Migrant Agenda in Europe
A Declaration of the Europe-wide Conference of Filipino Migrants
27-30 November 1997, Athens, Greece

Overseas Filipinos: Asserting Human Rights in Two Societies
by Carlo Butalid, in Human Rights Forum, July-December 1997.

Press Statement on its Second Delegation to the Philippines
by the Platform of Filipino Migrant Organizations in Europe, 18 August 2000

End Secrecy, Suffering and Fear in Saudi Arabia
Joint Statement of AI-Phils., KAIBIGAN, KANLUNGAN, KAKAMMPI, and PAHRA
27 June 2000

Salient Features of HB 10720 and SB 1746

A Charter of Rights for Migrant Domestic Workers in Europe

A Statement of the Filipino Youth Encounter in Europe

Forum Tackles Violence Against Filipinas in Australia
Kakammpi, 24 February 2000

Forum on Filipinas in Finland: Social Affairs and the Mail Order Bride Phenomenon
by Ellecer E. Carlos, Kakammpi Documentation Staff, 24 February 2000

Filipinas in Finland: Social Affairs and Mail-order Bride Phenomenon
by Sari Korkalainen & Laura Nisula, 23 February 2000

Talakayang Bayan on the Rights of Migrant Household Workers
Organized by Geneva Forum for Philippine Concerns
Reprinted from Kanlungan Filipino Newsletter, December 1999

Kakammpi's Working Paper on RA 8042 (Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipinos Act of 1995)
24 August 1999

A Position Paper on the Proposed Bills to Allow Absentee Voting for Overseas Filipinos
by I.F. Bagasao

Empowering Seven Million Migrant Filipinos for the Next Millenium
Privilege Speech of Congresswoman Rosales on 10 May 1999.

Separated by Opportunity: The Impact of Overseas Migration on the Filipino Family
by Maria Fe Nicodemus, chairperson, Kakammpi

Legislative Agenda on Filipino Migrant Workers
by Rep. Loretta Ann P. Rosales, AKBAYAN Representative, Philippine Congress, April 23, 1999

Privilege Speech of Rep. Loretta Rosales on the Impact of the Current Social and Economic Crisis Confronting Overseas Filipinos

Implement Overseas Filipinos and Filipinasī Right to Vote by 2001
by Migrant Initiative

Philippine Overseas Migration Amidst the Asian Crisis
Kakammpi

Globalization and Migration
by Anny Misa Hefti, Babaylan -Switzerland

Philippine International Migration: Issues and Concerns of Filipino Migrants in the Netherlands - A Summary
A Summary of the report on the public forum on 24 November 1997, organized by the Federation of Filipino Organizations in the Netherlands (FFON).

Forum on Philippine International Migration: Editorial Note
by Filomenita Mongaya Hogsholm, December 1998



Senate/House of Representatives Bills on Overseas Filipinos:

House Bill 7243
An Act Providing for a System of Overseas Voting for Qualified Filipinos Abroad and Appropriating Funds Therefor
by Rep. Rosales

Draft Senate Bill Prepared by the Committees on Constitutional Amendments, Revision of Codes and Laws; and Finance
An Act Providing for a System of Absentee Voting by Qualified Filipinos Abroad
with Senators Guingona, Jr., Ople, Roco, Santiago, Aquino-Oreta, and Osmeņa (J.) as authors



Articles from Philippines International Review:

Rough Sailing for Filipino Sailors
by Philippine Seafarers Assistance Program (PSAP)

Building Bridges with Migrant/Contract Workers
by Shared Communities

New York Family Caregivers Organize
by Shared Communities

Babaylan: Philippine Women's Network in Europe
by Emma Bibal, Babaylan chairperson

Kakammpi Development Strategy

Right to Vote of Overseas Filipinos
by Carlo Butalid

Migrant Rights are Human Rights:Breaking new ground with the UN Convention on Migrant Rights
by Nonoi Hacbang

Filipinos in Europe Meet Congress, President Estrada
from Kakammpi Press Release, 17 August 1998

Filipinas in Europe get ready for the year 2000
by Marlene Buwalda-Macatangay, DIWA

Filipino-Australians Campaign Against Racist "One Nation" Party
by Soliman Santos

Public Forum on International Migration




Profiles of Overseas Filipino Organizations

Babaylan

Kakammpi

Shared Communities

Unlad Kabayan



Links to Overseas Filipino Websites





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