Calls on Congress to investigate deployment bans, bilateral agreements on OFW deployment
 
Migrante International today sought the immediate investigation of what it called “state-sponsored human trafficking” of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Jordan.
 
According to Migrante International secretary-general, “There is an immediate and urgent need for the government to investigate the continuing recruitment of OFWs to Jordan despite the ongoing deployment ban issued by the Philippine government following cases of abuse from the region in 2007. We have verified with the POEA and they have affirmed that the ban is still in effect

At least a dozen OFWs’ remains still in Iran morgue
 
 Migrante International chairperson Garry Martinez today accompanied the family of Mark Lloyd Carmen, an overseas Filipino worker murdered in Iran last July 1, 2010, to the Ninoy Aquino International Airport to fetch his remains.
 
Carmen went to Abu Dhabi last April 4 via tourist visa hoping to find work. He eventually got employed in one of the hotels there but had to leave before his visit visa expired. He left for the nearest exit point in Kish Island on June 11 to await the release of his working visa that was still being processed by his employer.