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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.
Its head office is at F.B. Harrison Street corner 7th Street in Pasay, near EDSA Extension, Philippines. The agency was founded as the Welfare and Training Fund for Overseas Workers through Letter of Instruction No. 537, signed by President Ferdinand Marcos on May 1, 1977.
In 2012, approximately 80% of the remittances came from only seven countries—United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, and Japan. [ 28 ] In 2018, remittance had increased to $31 billion, which was nearly 10% of the GDP of the Philippines.
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]
This is a list of diplomatic missions in Dubai. [1] ... (Economic & Commercial Affairs Office) ... List of diplomatic missions in the United Arab Emirates; References
Catalonia (Catalonia Trade & Investment's office in Dubai) [3] Chad Chile (Commercial Office) [4] China Comoros Croatia [5] Denmark Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia France Germany Ghana Grenada Hong Kong (Economic and Trade Office) [6] [7] India Indonesia Iran Iraq Ireland (Irish Trade Office) Israel Italy Japan Jordan
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) (Arabic: وزارة الخارجية) is a government ministry in the United Arab Emirates responsible for overseeing the country's diplomatic relations as well as its foreign policy. [1] The ministry is also responsible for maintaining UAE's government offices abroad with diplomatic and consular status.