Archive for the ‘Migrant Workers Issues’ Category

Text and photos by  Cong B. Corrales A SEA OF RED banners, pennants, shirts, and streamers engulfed Liwasang Bonifacio yet again on May Day 2015. The site of countless protest rallies against dictatorship, corruption, and violations of people’s...

By Cong B. Corrales "ATTORNEY, iuwi nyo na Nanay ko ha?" This poignant plea comes from a boy of six. And all he could do was whisper it in a bashful tone at the airport on Tuesday as lawyer Edre Olalia took his final steps to board the plane for...

By Cong B. Corrales PEDOPHILES online, beware. The battle against cybersex with children has grown smarter than ever.  Its latest avatar: a Filipino “girl” of 10. Terre des Hommes, a children's aid organization based in The Netherlands, has...

IT all started with a tweet by a fashion designer who found the "yaya meals" being served at the exclusive Balesin Island Club as "offensive." Beyond the "yaya meals" issue, however, is something deeper. "The yaya phenomenon — women leaving their...

THE ADMINISTRATION of President Benigno S.Aquino III failed to score a majority approval rating on any of the 12 “urgent national concerns and issues” on which it is performance was rated in March 2015 by the creditable pollster Pulse Asia Research...

VICE PRESIDENT Jejomar C. Binay has launched his march to the presidency, with 17 months yet to go before the May 2016 elections. The wannabe-president has, in fact, taken the first step that six former presidents had all done to push their ride to power...

DESPITE big and grave allegations of kickbacks he supposedly pocketed from contracts awarded by Makati City where he served as mayor until Vice President Jejomar C. Binay remains the candidate to beat in the May 2016 presidential elections. Or at least...