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September 2010 - Launch of the maiden issue of the Focus on the Global South Policy Review

September 19 - In Malaysia will be held the forum called "Regional Strategy Meeting on Emerging Social and Cultural Concerns in ASEAN: Climate Change, South East Asian Peoples’ Right to Information, Labor Migration and Domestic Work and Platforms for Civil Society Engagement with the ASEAN."  Focus Philippines will make a presentation on "Building a Case for an ASEAN Protocol on Freedom of Information"

September 23 - 26 - Asean People's Forum in Hanoi, Vietnam. Fore more information, please send inquiries to the following: <apfhanoi-pc@aseanpeoplesforum.net>, <apfhanoi-ws@aseanpeoplesforum.net>. Ms Dorothy Guerrero, who is in the Bangkok office of Focus, seats in the Program Committee.

September 27 - October 1 - Freedom of Information Advocacy Week

September 23 - FOI Forum
     
September 27 - R2KRN will visit the Senate to renew the FOI campaign
     
September 28 - R2KRN will meet with Representatives of the Lower House

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Socio Economic Monitor November 2008: Migration PDF Print E-mail
For the first three quarters of 2008, over one million Filipinos were deployed abroad, according to the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA). The number rose by 26% compared to the same period last year, with 798,731 Filipinos leaving to work abroad. Remittances for this period (January-September 2008) reached $12 Billion, marking an increase from the $10 Billion level for the same period last year. Almost $ 7 Billion of total remittances from January to September came from Filipinos in the Americas. In contrast, remittances from Asia, where most Overseas Filipino Workers are deployed, amounted to $ 1.3 Billion.

Filipinos Abroad
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SOURCE: http://www.poea.gov.ph/stats/stats2007.pdf; http://www.bsp.gov.ph/statistics/keystat/ofw.htm
 
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