MANILA, Philippines — The government should allow overseas Filipinos to return home to their families and incentivize local healthcare workers to stay in the country by raising the standard for their compensation, the Commission on Human Rights said Saturday. The government also announced that it would not be deploying any more healthcare workers to countries restricting the entry of Filipinos. "The CHR extends its solidarity to our migrants and OFWs who are stranded far away from home and their families," Gwendolyn Pimentel-Gana, CHR focal commissioner on migrant rights, said. "Migration should be a choice and not the only option for HCWs, and OFWs in general." "Restrictions must be neither discriminatory nor arbitrary in application, and must at all times be respectful of human dignity, human rights, and fundamental freedoms," she said.

Source: Philippine Star June 26, 2021 07:18 UTC