04 June 2008
Within the framework of the High-Level Conference on World Food Security, which took place on 3 June 2008 at the Rome headquarters of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), UN-INSTRAW emphasizes the disproportionate impact that this crisis is having on women and girls, and calls for action to ensure their protection.
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| Philippine Embassy, Rome launches Technology
Programs for OFWs |
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14 March 2007 – Philippine
Ambassador to Italy Philippe J. Lhuillier reported to the Department
of Foreign Affairs that the Embassy launched two technology-based
programs that would benefit Overseas Filipino Workers on 11 March.In
a ceremony attended by 200 Filipino Community leaders and Embassy
officials, Ambassador Lhuillier led the ribbon-cutting to launch the
15-computer Community Technology Learning Center (CTLC) in the presence
of Microsoft representatives headed by Microsoft Italy Government
Affairs Director Peir Luigi Dal Pino. Rev. Fr. Albert Guevara, Sentro
Pilipino Chaplain, celebrated Holy Mass and blessed the Center.The
CTLC, generously sponsored by the Philippine Embassy, is a joint-project
of software giant Microsoft, the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration
(OWWA) and Pilipinas-OFSPES, an Italy-based Filipino NGO.The center
offers free computer lessons to the OFWs and their dependents from
basic to specialized computer skills as well as free internet and
Wifi usage time. It was designed to respond to the need for better
and cheaper means of maintaining communications with loved ones in
the Philippines and for possible job/salary upgrading at jobsite.Another
service launched was the “One Follow Me Service” for OFWs,
which was conceptualized by OWWA Administrator Marknito D. Roque.
Designed by Microsoft, the Service provides a Global Dual Phone that
would significantly reduce communication and remittance costs for
migrant workers.Community leaders lined up to avail of the service
after a comprehensive orientation to the service was delivered by
Microsoft technology specialists Manie Tolosa, Jomar Geronimo and
Tank Mostert, together with RCBC Italy Manager Guia Santos.“OFWs
would now have the chance to make free cellphone to PC calls or chat
in Wifi areas using the VOIP function of the mobile phone,” Ambassador
Lhuillier noted. “They could also easily control their finances
through their RCBC account with just a few clicks on the phone with
no remittance charges.”Ambassador Lhuillier
added that these technologies would “evidently bring Filipino
families closer and surmount the fundamental social cost of migration,
which is the physical separation of families." "Likewise,
the skills acquired by our kababayans would eventually provide them
with opportunities for higher paying jobs", he concluded. END.
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Dai Cpt ai centri d'identificazione.
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| Roma-Immigrazione:il governo si apresta a cambiare
la Bossi-Fini. Nel disegno di legge dei ministri Amato e Ferrero sono
previste corsie preferenziali per infermieri,badanti,colf,tecnici
specializzati,manager.Per tutti,comunque,sarà abolito il contratto
di soggiorno,previsto dalla attuale legislazione.Viene introdotto
anche un test d'italiano nel Paese d'origine per iscriversi alle liste
di <<collocamento>> nelle nostre ambasciate.Le espulsioni
saranno decise dal giudice ordinario e non più da quello di
pace,mentre si va verso il superamento graduale degli attuali cpt
con la creazione di un triplo circuito via più restrittivo. |
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May mga Pinoy na nakatuklas na at kasalukuyang naglalaro ng War Games
Soft Air dito sa Roma. Isang grupo na bumuo ng batalyon ng mga Pilipino
laban sa batalyon ng mga Italyano. Para sa kanila isa itong larong
may kakaibang karanasan, magandang ehersiyo sa katawan at pagpapahalaga
sa ganda ng kalikasan....more. |
| Filippine, un leader contadino che non ci dimentica:
Ka Memong |
| NINETY-ONE-year-old Felicisimo "Ka Memong"
Patayan has earned the title "grand old man of the peasant movement
and sustainable agriculture in the Philippines" through hard
work, devotion to a sector that smells of soil and sun, and commitment
to the oft-forgotten people of the land.more on the link. |
| Rome, 08 March 2004 – Charito Basa was formally
conferred today with Italy’s most distinguished award, the Order
to the Merit of the Italian Republic, and was named Knight of the
Republic by Italian President Carlo Aseglio Ciampi for her contributions
in social development as well as in the promotion of the rights of
women and migrants. |
| Romulo Sabio Salvador, 44 anni, filippino, già
membro della Consulta cittadina per l'immigrazuione, si è preso
la sua personale rivincita. Delle scorse elezioni nel 2004 era stato
il vincitore morale. Il più votato, con 2.539 preferenze, aveva
dovuto cedere il posto alla connazionale Irma Tobias Perez, per via
del meccanismo elettorale che..... |
| Mara Morelli was crowned as Miss Italia Nel Mondo
(Miss Italy in the World), a prestigious beauty contest held annually
in Italy and broadcasted over Rai Uno. Mara represented the Philippines
(Filippine). In the talent portion she danced the "Pandanggo
Sa Ilaw". 37 other young ladies representing various countries
vied for the title. |
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