The first migrants’ forum for Filipino workers opened yesterday with organisers announcing plans to form a new committee to help protect employees’ rights.
More than 80 Filipino community groups based in Dubai and the northern Emirates are joining forces to create an ad-hoc committee to offer help and support to the nearly 600,000 Filipinos who live and work in the Emirates.
Migrant workers in Abu Dhabi. Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sultan/
“We need to show the real situation of our migrant workers,” said Robert Ramos, the chairman of the Filipino community organising committee in Dubai and the Northern Emirates.
“The governments of the Philippines and the UAE have to know the extent of their problems.”
He was speaking on the sidelines of the forum organised by the UAE chapter of Migrante, an organisation created to protect Filipino workers overseas.
Mr Ramos said he would ask the leaders of each organisation to form sub-committees to handle research, media and social projects.
“We need specific data and concrete cases of migrant workers’ problems in the Emirates,” he said, adding that the information would be used in a campaign to be launched in the Philippines.
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