Senator Loren Legarda today condemned the reported forced prostitution of distressed overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) allegedly involving three Philippine embassy officials in the Middle East.
The Chair of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations noted news reports which revealed that three Philippine embassy officials are allegedly involved in “sex-for-fly” operations, engaging in acts with fellow Filipinos staying in OFW shelters in Amman, Jordan, Kuwait, and Damascus, Syria in exchange for the Filipino workers’ repatriation.
Senator Loren Legarda today said that the country is making significant strides in protecting the rights and welfare of Filipino seafarers both here and abroad through relevant programs and policies.
“Our seafarers will be provided with fair working conditions and the benefits due to them and as their employers will be demanded to provide them with salaries not lower than the minimum wage rate, holiday pay and other special day benefits, weekly rest day, overtime pay, incentive leaves, among other benefits,” said Legarda, Chair of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.
Re-elected Senator Loren Legarda today bared her platform on disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) for the next six years.
Legarda, Chair of the Senate Committee on Climate Change, said that her priority will be the assessment of the state of implementation of the laws on environment, DRR and CCA that she authored.
MAKATI CITY, Philippines–Senator Loren Legarda said she will call for an “environmental audit” by three oversight committees when the next Congress convenes in July as she agreed with observations that the Philippines has now turned into a “water world.”
The three are the oversight committees on clean water, clean air and solid waste management.
Legarda, who currently heads the committee on climate change, has openly expressed her preference to head in the 16th Congress the environment committee now being chaired […]
