FACT CHECK: Clip of Kuwait ban on Filipinos NEEDS CONTEXT
An old news report is being recirculated online to claim that Kuwait has banned the entry of Filipinos. The ban came last year and has since been lifted.
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FACT CHECK: OLD report on HIV cases among OFWs passed off as new
Netizens are sharing an old report about 166 overseas Filipino workers testing positive for human immunodeficiency virus misleadingly passing it off as recent.
VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Ano ang ibig sabihin ng pagiging nasa ‘gray list’ ng FATF?
Inilagay ang Pilipinas sa gray list matapos matukoy ng FATF ang 18 kakulangan na dapat resolbahin ng gobyerno para epektibong labanan ang money laundering at terrorism financing sa bansa.
VERA FILES FACT SHEET: What does being in the FATF’s ‘gray list’ mean?
The Philippines was placed on the gray list after the FATF identified 18 deficiencies that the government must resolve to effectively counter money laundering and terrorism financing in the country.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Pahayag ni Marcos na ang pagbibigay ng ‘ayuda’ ay kanyang ‘top priority’ nangangailangan ng konteksto
Sinabi ni Pangulong Ferdinand Marcos Jr. na ang kanyang administrasyon ay naglalagay ng "patuloy na tulong" para sa proteksyong panlipunan at kabuhayan "sa tuktok" ng listahan ng prayoridad nito. Ito ay nangangailangan ng konteksto.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Marcos’ claim that giving ‘ayuda’ is his ‘top priority’ needs context
Although the Marcos administration placed “social protection” as one of its budget priorities for “human capital development,” Sonny Africa, executive director of the nonprofit IBON Foundation, noted that the total allocation for these programs in 2023 is P33.28 billion less than the P262.67 billion for 2022.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Returning OFWs STILL required to take swab test, undergo quarantine
The guidelines for OFWs “have not changed,” Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) Programs Services Division staff Krista Zulueta told VERA Files Fact Check in a phone interview on March 11.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Video naming senators ‘behind’ OFW PhilHealth premium hike MISLEADING
It cherry-picks eight of 13 senators who authored the Universal Health Care Law.
10 years in the making, ASEAN to sign consensus on migrants’ rights in summit
A key feature of the document is to afford mechanisms for ASEAN migrants such as labor contracts and legal representation.
More than 2,000 trafficked Filipinos trapped in Syria
By JAKE SORIANO A top foreign affairs official said some 2,000 overseas Filipino workers, all of them victims of human trafficking, remain trapped in Syria three years after civil unrest broke out there. Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Senior Special Assistant Renato Villa said during a migration conference earlier this week the Philippine government is
