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Just got a copy of the Amnesty International 2010 report which contain relevant data for the year 2009 and found the following reports that concern the Philippines (aside from the report on the country itself which is shamefully very bad). I am sure there are more human rights violations experienced especially by Filipino migrant workers abroad that did not make it to the report:

(The report for the Philippines is shown below. A more complete report for the country can be obtained from Karapatan's 2009 year-end report whose cover is shown to the right.)

Japan
Under Refugees and asylum-seekers: In April, the government deported Filipino nationals Arlan and Sarah Calderon because of their irregular status, separating themfromtheir 13-year-old daughter, Noriko Calderon. TheMinistry of Justice gave Noriko Calderon, who was born in Japan and speaks only Japanese, a choice of returning to the Philippines with her parents or remaining in Japan alone.

Kuwait
Under Migrants' rights: In March, a Filipina domestic worker was reported to have been hospitalized after she was raped and repeatedly assaulted; the police rejected her employers’ allegation that she had attempted suicide.

Under Death penalty: At least three people were sentenced to death for murder; no executions were reported.

May Membriri Vecina, a Filipina domestic worker, returned to the Philippines in June following a pardon by the Amir. She had been sentenced to death in July 2007 after being convicted of murdering her employer’s youngest child. At her trial, she alleged that her employer had physically and mentally abused her, causing her to become mentally ill. Her sentence had been commuted to life imprisonment in June2008.

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