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The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (abbreviated as OWWA, Filipino: Pangasiwaan sa Kagalingan ng Manggagawa sa Ibayong-dagat [2]) is an attached agency of the Department of Migrant Workers of the Philippines.
After Ferdinand Marcos was removed from office following the People Power Revolution of February 1986, his successor Corazon Aquino issued Executive Order No. 126, which renamed the Welfare Fund as the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA). In 1995, the Republic Act 8042, or Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipinos Act, became law.
President Duterte signing Republic Act No. 11641 or the Act Creating the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) on December 30, 2021. On July 12, 2019, during the Araw ng Pasasalamat for OFWs (Thanksgiving day for the Overseas Filipino Workers), President Duterte in a speech promised to finish the framework for the creation of a department that caters to the need of OFWs.
In the United Arab Emirates, at least 40 Filipinos have died from COVID-19 in Dubai alone. [35] According to the Department of Labor and Employment, there are at least 3,000 Filipino COVID-19 cases in Qatar. This information though was released without clearance from the Philippine embassy in Doha. [36]
Migrant workers in the United Arab Emirates describe the foreign workers who have moved to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for work. As a result of the proximity of the UAE to South Asia and a better economy and job opportunities, most of the migrant foreign workers are from India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Philippines and Pakistan. [1]
DataFlow Group, founded in 2006, has its headquarters in Dubai. [1] The company has a network of 100,000 issuing authorities throughout more than 200 countries, in addition to 620 experts and researchers. [ 2 ]
The UAE's official development assistance (ODA) measured as a share of Gross National Income achieved 1.17% in 2014 and 1.12% in 2016. [6] This is higher than the United Nations' agreement for countries to give 0.7% of their gross national income (GNI) as official development aid yearly, ranking the UAE as highest contributor of all countries ...
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