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		<title>International Women’s Day  and Migrant Women’s  Rights</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[History Entwined If it were not for immigrant women, we might not be celebrating the 8th of March as International Women’s Day (IWD) today, where we honour and recognize women’s contributions, and also protect their rights. Although IWD has been observed since the early 1900’s when the world then,  cataclysmic owing to industrial expansion and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>30th Anniversary of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), 4 November 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:18:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Babaylan Europe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), OHCHR (HRTB), in partnership with the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and UNIFEM celebrated a half-day panel discussion on “Women and migration in Europe, including in the context of the financial crisis” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The First Shift: Domestic Workers Deserve Basic Rights</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:47:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Babaylan Europe</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Au Pair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brittany Shoot]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[- Article courtesy of the &#8220;TheWIP.net&#8221;, first published on July 17, 2009. Written by Brittany Shoot In Denmark, despite strict immigration laws, it isn’t uncommon to see large groups of young Filipina women congregating on train station platforms or giggling together in public. In Copenhagen, state-sanctioned domestic workers are often employed as au pairs – [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Becoming a Filipino Tilburger</title>
		<link>http://www.babaylan-europe.org/index.php/2007/10/20/becoming-a-filipino-tilburger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 23:26:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Babaylan Europe</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Maya Echavez Butalid]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Maya Echavez Butalid On the early morning of August 13, 1983, I stepped out of Schiphol airport in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. It was still in the middle of summer, and not just an ordinary summer day. There was supposed to be a heat wave. But I felt the cold penetrating even up to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Overseas Filipino Workers in Belgium and their information needs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 23:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Babaylan Europe</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Joyce del Rosario]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Joyce del Rosario Abstract: This essay will look into the historical roots of Philippine migration to Belgium and provide the status and mode of migration including the different types of migrant workers. A historical appreciation of Filipino migration allows the reader to fully appreciate and understand the basis of information requirements, needs and practices [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A SIMPLIFIED MAP OF THE FRENCH-PHILIPPINES: a bird’s eye-worm’s eye-view</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 12:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Babaylan Europe</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[by Maya Meyewski]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Maya Meyewski An estimated 50 000 Filipinas and Filipinos work as migrant domestic workers in France. 30 000 are in Paris, the rest in the southern part of the Hexagon, including Monaco. Only 6000 are officially registered and documented. If you take a good look at the Philippine community in Paris, through the years, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Filipinos in Finland 2006</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Babaylan Europe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Teresita Zurbano Ruutu With perhaps a few exceptions, the first thing that immigrants do as soon as they arrive in the country of destination is to find co-expatriates in the area. Even just one with whom they can share and compare their new and different experiences without fear of embarrassment or offending the local [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Migrant Issues in Switzerland</title>
		<link>http://www.babaylan-europe.org/index.php/2007/03/07/migrant-issues-in-switzerland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 21:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Babaylan Europe</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Anny Misa Hefti]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Anny Misa Hefti Switzerland has one of the most restrictive immigration laws in Europe. Yet Switzerland is very dependent upon its foreign work force. One quarter of the entire volume of work is carried out by gainfully employed foreign nationals. The philippine migrant community belong to one of the minority groups. Filipinas work in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FILIPINA MIGRATION IN THE NETHERLANDS</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 16:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Babaylan Europe</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Malu Padilla]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Malu Padilla “In the Service of our Kababayans” - Bayanihan Philippine Women’s Centre Just like in any part of the world where they are, Filipinos in The Netherlands are found in various sectors of the Dutch society. Today, the majority of the Filipino community is composed of permanent residents, complimented by a number of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Filipino Women Migrants in Germany</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 16:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Babaylan Europe</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mary Lou Hardillo]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by  Mary Lou U. Hardillo-Werning BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON MIGRATION Between 1955 and 1990, there were about 20 million people who came and settled in Germany (SZ, 04.05.04). The country has had to cope with a number of immigrants like Soviet Jews, ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe (Aussiedler) and asylum seekers, who have been coming in [...]]]></description>
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