UN body: No woman should die giving birth

THE United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) called for adequate reproductive health care in the Philippines as the country marks Mother’s Day today, citing how around six to seven Filipino women die during pregnancy and childbirth due to the unavailability,inaccessibility, unaffordability, or poor quality of sexual and reproductive health services.

In a press statement, UNFPA Country Representative Dr. Leila Saiji Joudane said maternal deaths globally had increased during the past two years.

“Around six to seven Filipino women die daily due to childbirth.

During emergencies, when access to maternal health services is disrupted, more women die during pregnancy and childbirth. Women die because sexual and reproductive health services are unavailable, inaccessible, unaffordable, or of poor quality,” Joudane said.

Citing data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), the UN body noted that 1,458 women died of maternal causes in 2019, which went up to 2,478 in 2021.

Filipino Resource Centers (MWOFRC), is mandated under Republic Act 8042 or the Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipinos Act of 1995.

“We could not have agreed to a provision that will allow us not to establish a shelter for our countrymen because that’s our law.

Of course, whenever we have an agreement with another country, we always connect that with our domestic legislation,” he said.

He said the operation of these shelters abroad is non-negotiable, and would remain in operation regardless of the outcome of the upcoming talks.

“Our law is clear. We have to have a Cortes said the DFA would also explain shelter for our kababayans,” he said. the deployment ban for household service workers (HSWs), which he believes could have been a “source of confusion” for the Kuwaiti side.

The ban only covers the contracts of the deployment ban for household service have been a “source of confusion” for the first-time HSWs bound for Kuwait and first-time HSWs bound for Kuwait and the brutal death of Jullebee mains were found in a desert Cortes said the meeting

The upcoming than 290,000 overseas Filipinos there. According to the DFA, around 70 percent of the OFWs in Kuwait are household workers. was imposed in February after the brutal death of Jullebee Ranawa, whose charred re mains were found in a desert in Kuwait this year. is timely as it was already set even before the issue of the entry ban came up. high-level talks, he said, are part of the regular discussions between the Phil ippines and Kuwait concerning the more around 70 percent of workers.

HERO, WITH OR WITHOUT A CAPE.

Kids pose with a ‘Super Mom’ at SM City Dasmariñas to mark Mother’s Day today. Norman Cruz

PBBM: Assist ‘comfort women’ in filing claims

PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. ordered concerned government agencies to extend aid and assistance to the case of the “Malaya Lolas” – a group of victims of sexual slavery by the Japanese imperial army during World War II.

The President made the statement following a report of the UN Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), saying the Philippines had failed to assist the Malaya Lolas in filing claims against Japan.

“Government agencies concerned are formulating a comprehensive response to the CEDAW committee and will submit this within the required period,” President Marcos said on Saturday.

“We commit to undertaking measures and finding ways to help them live better lives as an expression of our continued deep solidarity with them and of our utmost respect,” he added.

Mr. Marcos said his administration acknowledges the “grave atrocities endured by the brave Filipino women during wars of the 20th century.”

MALAYANG LOLAS. File photo shows two comfort women with Teresita Ang See (middle), convenor of the Flowers for the Lolas Campaign, in a protest action in front of the Japanese Embassy in Pasay City in January.

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“(We) sincerely commiserate with them as they bear the long-term and irreversible physical and psychological effects of the war. We honor their indomitable spirit and dignity in taking this important cause forward through these years,” the President said.