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Canada commemorates “Limb Loss Awareness Month” to bring awareness to barriers faced by amputees in the community.
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Fil-Am ivermectin users say they feel protected from COVID-19 despite experts’ caution
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21 April 2021
human trafficking
Freed “modern day slave” unites community one more time
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Steve Angeles
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Jul 22, 2020
A final goodbye for Nanay Fedelina Lugasan, who survived over 60 years of modern day slavery. After living the final two years of her life as a free woman, lugasan passed away at 83 years-old from...
Filipino day care owners face multiple theft and trafficking charges
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Rommel Conclara
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Apr 20, 2020
SAN MATEO, CA — San Mateo County Judge Jeffery Finnigan has denied 42-year-old Joshua Gamos’ request for his bail to be reduced from $3 million to $300,000. Joshua and his other family members — 67-year old...
Nanay Fedelina’s long-awaited family reunion cut short by the coronavirus outbreak
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Steve Angeles
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Mar 27, 2020
LOS ANGELES — It was a reunion forty years in the making but cut short by the pandemic. Nanay Fedelina’s family — which includes her sister Eunila, Eunila’s daughter Luz and granddaughter Tiny — finally reconnected...
Nanay Fedelina, a survivor of slavery, and advocates pledge to keep fighting against trafficking abuse
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Steve Angeles
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Mar 17, 2020
Through a united community effort, Nanay Fedelina — the 87-year-old woman who survived 65 years of abuse and confinement while serving four generations of a Filipino family in two countries — is finally reunited with her...
Los Angeles Philippine Consulate on concerted efforts to help Nanay Fedelina, a longtime victim of human trafficking
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Steve Angeles
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Mar 11, 2020
LOS ANGELES — They’re calling it both a miracle and happy ending. After six decades of enduring human trafficking and modern-day slavery in the hands of her US-based Filipino employers, and being kept from seeing her...
Filipina survivor of modern day slavery reunited with family, after decades of waiting
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Steve Angeles
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Mar 10, 2020
We have followed the case of Nanay Fedelina, a Filipina survivor of human trafficking and modern-day slavery and was even the subject of the BA Original film Kept: Six Decades of Servitude. And while it may...
Filipino worker recounts experience after recruiter pleads guilty to labor trafficking
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Don Tagala
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Feb 15, 2020
NEW YORK — A Filipino labor trafficking survivor shares how his coming-out story has helped encourage other victims to come out and fight for their rights as immigrant workers abused by their employer. Labor trafficking survivor...
Philippine government officials meet with Nanay Fedelina, modern-day slavery survivor
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Steve Angeles
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Nov 28, 2019
LOS ANGELES — Led by Commission on Filipinos Overseas Secretary Francisco “Nick” Acosta, Philippine government officials met with Filipino workers in Los Angeles recently. Among the community groups they had a dialogue with, the Pilipino Workers Center...
Pilipino Workers Center taking the lead on the issue of human and labor trafficking
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Steve Angeles
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Oct 16, 2019
LOS ANGELES — In the past few years, the LA-based Pilipino Workers Center has been taking the lead when it comes to human and labor trafficking. The organization recently held a two-day conference called Towards Freedom,...
Counsel explains merits of human trafficking class suit vs. New York nursing home group
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Don Tagala
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Oct 5, 2019
NEW YORK — More than 200 Filipino nurses won a human trafficking case against their employer, SentosaCare nursing home group in New York. Leading the class action suit is a nurse named Rose Ann Paguirigan —...
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