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Apartheid? The boot is still on the Arab foot

Although it’s almost drowned out by  charges of Israeli ‘genocide’ in Gaza, this week is  Israel Apartheid Week – a global, multimedia extravaganza devoted to cementing the comparison between the international pariah, Israel, and the old racist regime in South Africa. And it’s come to a campus near you.  Although there have been improvements in the Arab world in the position of women and blacks,  this article is still broadly accurate since it was first posted on The Times of Israel in 2013:

Women demonstrating for their rights in Egypt

Anyone who knows anything about Israel will tell you that the comparison is invidious and malicious. Israeli law does not discriminate against Arab citizens. Of course there is – there must be – plenty of room for improvement, but show me one liberal democracy where minorities do not claim to experience discrimination and prejudice.

Not only is the Israel Apartheid campaign a monumental lie of gobsmacking chutzpah, but the boot is on the Arab foot. You only have to witness the way that Arab host countries treat their Palestinians, who are denied citizenship. And not only Palestinians – Kuwait has 300,000 Bedounresidents denied citizenship and the right to vote. Thousands of children born in Arab countries are deprived of citizenship merely because their parents were not citizens. Immigrants from South Asia with no rights whatsoever help keep countries like Dubai, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates running.

Those who berate the West for its orientalism towards the Third World, quoting the late Edward Said‘s eponymous book, ignore the fact that much of society under Muslim domination was built on the exploitation of women, Jews (and Christians) and blacks. Not only are all Arab countries strong contenders in the Apartheid Oscars, but Saudi Arabia would win hands down. At the bottom of its obscene pecking order are women, non-Muslims and slaves.

Every year, an unknown number of Filipinos in Saudi Arabia are victims of sexual abuses, maltreatment, unpaid salaries, and other malpractices. Wretched Filipina domestics are virtual prisoners with no rights, their passports confiscated.

Across Muslim Africa, blacks are routinely mistreated and abused. Some 20 percent of Mauritanians, about 600, 000 people, are still slaves. Mauritania uses Sharia law to justify a racist system where Arabs exploit the country’s black African population. Last week, one slave told the Geneva summit for Human Rights and Democracy, an alternative to what is laughingly called the UN Human Rights Council, that – according to religious madrassahs – ’slaves are the masters’ properties, who are passed along as inheritance and where the condition of slavery is transmitted from parent to child, where women slaves must submit their bodies to their masters.’

Before western colonial rule tempered their status, Jews were dhimmis, treated as inferiors and denied basic human rights – the ‘dogs’ of the Arabs. Each religious community ran its own affairs in an atmosphere of mutual suspicion – a de facto Apartheid. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach recalls his father telling himhow humiliating it was to grow up in (Shi’a) Iran and have Islamic shop-keepers refuse to take money directly from his hand because as a Jew, he was impure. Other abuses in Muslim lands : the 19th century Moroccan Jew beaten to death for taking in a destitute Muslim woman as his housemaid (that would have been to overturn the natural order); 40 percent of Jews born in Egypt were not granted Egyptian nationality in the 1920s; Jews were denied justice, because Arabs were never called to account for abusing them.

Historian Georges Bensoussan has completed the most comprehensive study to-date of conditions for Jews in Yemen, Iraq and Morocco since 1850 until their mass exodus. He calls the Jews of the Arab and Muslim world the ‘colonised of the colonised’ – tolerated as long as they were useful to their Muslim masters.

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UC mass wedding of 1,000 couples probed for recruiting prostitutes, nannies

Philippine Daily Inquirer  MANILA by Bobby Timonera 1996

Wedding bells set off the alarm. Did the grooms offer to have and to hold their brides or did they offer them jobs? This is what the Bureau of Immigration is trying to find out after the “mass wedding” held last January 23 between mostly South Korean men and nearly 1,000 Filipino women. The exchange of “I dos,” the bureau suspects, may be an operation to illegally recruit domestic helpers and prostitutes. Immigration Commissioner Leandro I. Verceles Sr. said his office will observe with “extreme caution” in approving the departure of the Filipino brides. He also ordered investigations into the suspicious weddings. “This could be a case of mail-order-bride-in-reverse operation which is illegal under our laws,” the commissioner said. The mass wedding of 984 couples at the Philippine International Convention Center was supposed to be only a religious rite and thus has no legal effect, Verceles pointed out.

Moonies It was under the auspices of the Seoul-based Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity whose members are also known as the “Moonies.” They are named after the controversial Rev. Sun Myung Moon of South Korea, leader of the church. The Rev. Chung-hwan Kwak, representing Moon, blessed the couples, which included people from the United States, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, Japan, but mostly South Korea. Verceles said the Koreans probably came over for the wedding ceremony when immigration agents at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) prevented 300 Filipino women from departing last month. They claimed to be members of the same church as the “Moonies”. Verceles dispatched immigration agents to the wedding site to gather the names of the couples. At the same time, he also alerted immigration personnel at the NAIA to prevent the brides from leaving while investigations are being conducted. Citing an intelligence report from the Department of Foreign Affairs, Verceles said that the “Moonies” had previously sponsored the recruitment of a large number of Filipino women to work in Korea. The same report said that late last year, 184 Filipinas were brought to Korea aboard a chartered plane. They were reportedly brought to a training center where they were housed for three days before being deployed as domestic helpers and prostitutes. The Unification church said it had no immediate comment.

Not first time It was the second mass wedding conducted in Manila by the said church. Last year, 1995, about 3,000 Filipinos were married in a basketball gym in Manila as part of a mass wedding performed by Moon via satellite from Seoul. They were among 360,000 couples married worldwide in that ceremony. “Originally, the blessing was available only to adherents of the Unification Church,” a statement from the group said. “Now, however, anyone wanting to (can) participate, regardless of religion, race or nationality.”

Prison term

… Moon, a South Korea native, served 13 months in a U.S. federal prison on charges of tax evasion [and document forgery] before being released in 1985. …

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Moonies demanded $2,000 from Koreans who wanted to have Filipinas as “housemaids and sex partners.”

Philippine Daily Inquirer  MANILA by Bobby Timonera 1995 Farmers’ daughters are Moonie targets The Moonies are combing the Philippine countryside in search of farmers’ daughters to lure into their trap. One such innocent, Carlita, who is in her 20s, was lucky to get away. Carlita, her face covered with a towel, occasionally lapsed into tears and silence as she told reporters of her ordeal. This is her story. Sometime in November, the sect’s recruiters arrived at Carlita’s village in Nueva Ecija and asked the women if they would be interested in marrying Koreans. Photographs of Korean men were passed around. “OK, we’ll see if we get to like them,” the women said. They were told to attend a seminar at the sect’s church in Cabanatuan City. It was supposedly about the “ideal family.” Later, they were asked to wear nice clothing, were made up, and photographed. Then they were told that should authorities ask them about their marriage plans, they should answer that they have been writing to and talking with the Korean men over the phone for some time. Of the four women recruited, only three were matched with Koreans. One was apparently dropped. One day the women were invited to go to the church’s office in Manila in the company of Korean men. Along the way, the Koreans embraced them. Suddenly afraid, Carlita and another woman alighted from the vehicle near the Nepa Q-Mart market along Edsa in Quezon City. Carlita being a daughter of one of the peasant leaders of the Demokratikong Kilusang Magbu-bukid ng Pilipinas (DKMP), the other woman rushed to the DKMP office to report the incident. But their friend who was left behind was brought to the Unification Church’s headquarters at 32 Samar Avenue in Quezon City. It was this woman who told peasant leader Jaime Tadeo of the DKMP that a Caucasian, whose nationality she did not know, asked the Koreans to pay him $2,000. It was not known if the amount was payment for the recruitment job. But it jibed with a report from the Philippine Embassy in Seoul that the Moonies usually demand $2,000 from Koreans who wanted to have “housemaids and sex partners.” The transaction appears to be part of the sect’s fund-raising campaign. Tadeo, along with Carlita, went to the Bureau of Immigration office in Intramuros to seek its help in closing the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity in Cabanatuan City.

“We believe they are just using their church as a front for illegal recruitment,” Tadeo said.

_________________________________ Korean UC leaders made lots of money from “selling” hundreds of pure, faithful, Filipino sisters

Morpheus: “I was on a staff that helped organize picture matchmaking in the late 1990s. Rev. Moon would come in and match all these young Filipino sisters to older Korean men who were not even members. I’m not sure Rev. Moon was aware of the wheeling and dealing that would go on behind the scenes. Many of these farmers and land owners would mortgage their farm to be admitted to these picture matchings. The Philippine Government complained. Discovered later that Korean leaders made lots of money this way.” (April 22, 2015)

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People who see Filipina women as only housemaids and gold-diggers, are the same people who get their asses saved by a Filipino nurse, and still refuse to give acknowledgement.

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Semua Orang Punya Bakat Seperti Nia Ramadhani dalam Hal Mengupas Salak

Beberapa waktu yang lalu heboh video Nia Ramadhani tidak ngerti cara mengupas salak. Tiba-tiba saja viral dan jadi isu nasional selama beberapa saat. 

Saya tidak sedang ingin membahas Nia Ramadhani, tapi mengupas salaknya. Hal sederhana dan seremeh itu bahkan ada yang tidak tahu bagaimana cara melakukannya. Saya bukan Nia Ramadhani tapi saya punya pengalaman yang mirip-mirip pengalaman mengupas salaknya.

Manila, 2018

Saya sudah merencanakan perjalanan ke Manila bersama teman saya Belinda. Saya berangkat dari Jakarta, Belinda berangkat dari Miri, kampung halamannya di Malaysia sana. Kami memutuskan menginap di hotel hipster yang punya layanan self service untuk laundry coin, jadi kami tidak perlu mengepak banyak pakaian karena bisa dicuci untuk 5 hari perjalanan. Dengan demikian kami tidak perlu beli bagasi. 

Suatu malam saya pamit ke Belinda untuk mencuci baju. Berbekal beberapa koin Peso Filipina dan satu sachet detergen yang saya beli di lobi hotel, saya melangkah menuju lantai laundry.

Saya pikir mencuci dengan mesin cuci adalah pekerjaan simpel. Saya kan tidak buta huruf dan bisa berbahasa Inggris, jadi pastilah tinggal pencet-pencet tombolnya bisa. Apa yang terjadi kemudian? Butuh 20 menit bagi saya untuk menemukan cara bagaimana mengoperasikan mesin cuci. Saya juga sempat cari video tutorial di YouTube bagaimana mengoperasikan mesin cuci tipe tersebut. Tapi, tetap saya kebingungan. Akhirnya saya menyerah dan minta bantuan sama staf hotel. Si staf hotel sempat nanya nyinyir “Don’t you know how to use washing machine? Don’t you have one at home?” 

“My housemaid does the laundry for me most of the time,” jawab saya menutupi kekatrokan yang saya lakukan. Di sini saya jadi sadar bahwa untuk urusan cuci pakaian, selama di rumah memang pembantu atau Ibu saya yang melakukannya. Saya biasanya tinggal keluarin dan jemur. Pun ketika saya kos saya juga lebih sering pakai jasa laundry dan beberapa tipe pakaian saya cuci pakai tangan.  

Jakarta, 2020

Selama WFH dan puasa membuat saya sering memasak. Terakhir, ada yang kasih challenge bikin telur balado. Saya cari-cari resep paling sederhana dan memutuskan ah ini gampang. Saya siapkan seluruh bumbu halusnya dengan cara di-blender pakai portable blender yang saya beli tempo hari. Bumbu selesai, saatnya menyiapkan telur. Di sini kekatrokan saya yang lain terungkap. 

Dear Netizen, saya tidak tahu cara merebus telur ayam. Biasanya juga cuma beli dan tinggal makan. Lagipula saya lebih suka telur dadar sih, jadi tidak pernah kepikiran suatu hari saya akan butuh bikin telur rebus. Saya sampai harus browsing di internet berapa lama waktu yang dibutuhkan untuk merebus telur ayam. Setelah ketemu saya pun set timer.

Selesai waktu rebusnya menurut internet saya tiriskan telurnya. Saya kupas kulitnya supaya bisa segera diproses ke tahap berikutnya yaitu digoreng dan dimasukkan ke bumbu baladonya. Dengan semangat saya retakkan cangkangnya. Ternyata, belum matang saudara sebangsa dan setanah air.

Dua kejadian bodoh di atas membuat saya berpikir betapa beruntungnya saya bisa living in privilege. Meskipun merasa bodoh tapi kebodohan itu membuat saya merasa bersyukur. 

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Social media celebrity Sondos Alqattan, who has a whopping Instagram following of 2.3 million, slammed reforms agreed by Kuwait and Manila to secure the rights of Filipino workers after a diplomatic crisis between the two countries.

According to the new pact, Filipino workers will be entitled to keep their passports, have a break every five hours during their working day and one day off a week.

“What are these complexities? This film? This joke?” Alqattan said in a video posted on her Instagram account earlier this week.

“There are some rules that have had me shocked. There are some like being able to take a break every five hours — that’s okay.”

“But how can someone have a person working in their homes and their passport is with the worker? If she took her passport and fled, who will reimburse me?” Alqattan added.

She then went on to complain that domestic workers can now have one day off a week: “What’s worse than this, she’s now entitled to one day off every day. One day! What else now?”

“I don’t want a Filipina housemaid anymore. For her to go out one day in a week? That’s four days in a month”, she added.

“She will only be working six days a week. We have no idea what she will be getting up to on those four days she’s off, especially with her passport on her”. The video made rounds on social media, sparking anger across the world, highlighting that foreign workers in Kuwait are forced to endure slave-like conditions:

The future of capitalism is here, it’s just not evenly distributed yet.

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Former beauty queen Kylie Verzosa bags Best Actress award at DIAFA 2022

Former beauty queen Kylie Verzosa bags Best Actress award at DIAFA 2022

Miss International 2016 Kylie Verzosa has yet another feather to the hat; the stunning beauty was honoured with the Best Actress award for her performance in The Housemaid (2021) at the Distinctive International Arab Festivals Awards (DIAFA) in Dubai. The Filipina, an accomplished actress in her country, received the award at the Dubai Creek Harbour Marina on the 4th of November. For the event,…

[eretzyisrael]

Apartheid? The boot is on the other foot

As Amnesty International publishes its report smearing Israel as ‘apartheid’ in order to compare it to the old racist regime in South Africa, we reproduce an article from 2013 that reflects on the irony at the campaign’s heart: much of society under Muslim domination was built on the exploitation of women, Jews and Christians and blacks. Today the Arab world is almost judenrein. The Jews have since found freedom in Israel, and the Abraham Accords have helped to demolish old prejudices.

An Arab citizen of Israel casting his ballot (Photo: Times of Israel)

Anyone who knows anything about Israel will tell you that the comparison is invidious and malicious. Israeli law does not discriminate against Arab citizens. Of course there is – there must be – plenty of room for improvement, but show me one liberal democracy where minorities do not claim to experience discrimination and prejudice.

Not only is the Israel Apartheid campaign a monumental lie of gobsmacking chutzpah, but the boot is on the Arab foot. You only have to witness the way that Arab host countries treat their Palestinians, who are denied citizenship. And not only Palestinians – Kuwait has 300,000 Bedounresidents denied citizenship and the right to vote. Thousands of children born in Arab countries are deprived of citizenship merely because their parents were not citizens. Immigrants from South Asia with no rights whatsoever help keep countries like Dubai, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates running.

Those who berate the West for its orientalism towards the Third World, quoting the late Edward Said‘s eponymous book, ignore the fact that much of society under Muslim domination was built on the exploitation of women, Jews (and Christians) and blacks. Not only are all Arab countries strong contenders in the Apartheid Oscars, but Saudi Arabia would win hands down. At the bottom of its obscene pecking order are women, non-Muslims and slaves.

Every year, an unknown number of Filipinos in Saudi Arabia are victims of sexual abuses, maltreatment, unpaid salaries, and other malpractices. Wretched Filipina domestics are virtual prisoners with no rights, their passports confiscated.

Across Muslim Africa, blacks are routinely mistreated and abused. Some 20 percent of Mauritanians, about 600, 000 people, are still slaves. Mauritania uses Sharia law to justify a racist system where Arabs exploit the country’s black African population. As Sam Cotton told the  US House International Committee on International Relations, slave trafficking still exists in Sudan and Mauritania.

Before western colonial rule tempered their status, Jews were dhimmis, treated as inferiors and denied basic human rights – the ‘dogs’ of the Arabs. Each religious community ran its own affairs in an atmosphere of mutual suspicion – a de facto Apartheid. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach recalls his father telling him how humiliating it was to grow up in (Shi’a) Iran and have Islamic shop-keepers refuse to take money directly from his hand because as a Jew, he was impure. Other abuses in Muslim lands : the 19th century Moroccan Jew beaten to death for taking in a destitute Muslim woman as his housemaid (that would have been to overturn the natural order); 40 percent of Jews born in Egypt were not granted Egyptian nationality in the 1920s; Jews were denied justice, because Arabs were never called to account for abusing them.

Historian Georges Bensoussan has completed the most comprehensive study to-date of conditions for Jews in Yemen, Iraq and Morocco since 1850 until their mass exodus. He calls the Jews of the Arab and Muslim world the ‘colonised of the colonised’ – tolerated as long as they were useful to their Muslim masters.

[howwelldoyouknowyourmoon]

The Roman Catholic Church of the Philippines tried to stop FFWPU human trafficking of women

The Unification Church is now called the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (FFWPU). It was founded by Sun Myung Moon; he and his wife, Hak Ja Han, later founded the Universal Peace Federation (UPF). Pope Francis has been asked to support the UPF. Sun Myung Moon claimed to be the Messiah, the Lord of the Second Advent.

The FFWPU human trafficking was a serious problem from the late 1980s. Many Filipinas were sold to Korean men; there were court cases against the FFWPU. The abuse the women suffer is ongoing.

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The Philippines prohibits the business of organizing or facilitating marriages between Filipinas and foreign men. The Philippine congress enacted Republic Act 6955 or the Anti-Mail-Order Bride Law in 1990 as a result of stories that appeared in the local press and media about Filipinas being abused by their foreign husbands.

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Catholic Church helps Filipinas running from violent FFWPU marriages in Korea

In November 2009, Philippine Ambassador to South Korea Luis Cruz warned Filipina women against marrying Korean men. He said in recent months that the Philippine Embassy in Seoul has received complaints from Filipino wives of abuses committed by their Korean husbands that caused separation, divorce and abandonment. As language and cultural differences become an issue, the Filipina women are regarded as commodities bought for a price.

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Illegal recruitment of women by FFWPU in the Philippines

Many of the women came from the provinces – visited by middle–men connected with the Moonies. Young daughters of farmers in Nueva Ecija said that a Caucasian man arrived in their village with photographs of Korean men looking for wives. Women who showed interest in meeting these men were told to attend a seminar run by the Moonies in Cabanatuan City. Apparently the seminar is intended to educate women about the “ideal family” as a preparation for their meeting with their prospective husbands in Manila.

Since there is legislation banning introduction agencies in the Philippines, the women were advised by their recruiter to tell authorities that their relationships with these Korean men are genuine and that they have been in communication with them for some time. For his service, the recruiter gets $2,000 from each man. This amount, according to the Philippine embassy in Seoul corresponds with fees usually asked from Korean men wanting “housemaids” and “sex partners.”

by Emere Distor http://cpcabrisbane.org/Kasama/1996/V10n1/Sect.htm

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Church Organization and Its Networks for the Filipino Migrants: Surviving and Empowering in Korea

by Toshiko Tsujimoto

Filipino diaspora is indeed a global phenomenon. Their living and working conditions have been much studied, as the number of overseas contract workers (OCWs) increased. The policies of the Philippine government as well as the host governments have also been examined. In contrast, the activities and role of nongovernment organizations (NGOS) have received little attention, especially those of the church. While the efforts for the protection of human rights and promotion of welfare can be observed among the migrants themselves, the presence of the Catholic church has been particularly significant in many parts of the world. The church is an indispensable organization for Filipinos in their spiritual as well as secular needs.

This essay focuses on one such church-based center in Seoul, the Archdiocesan Pastoral Center for Filipino Migrants, also known as the Filipino Catholic Center, or FCC, and especially pays attention to its support function. The FCC is organized and managed by Filipinos. I aim to show how Filipino migrants cope and deal with their concerns by utilizing support networks. …

Filipina Brides Who Got Married to Koreans under the Unification Church Since February 2000, more than 300 Filipino women who joined a religious group, the Unification Church, and got married to Korean men, have been landing at Kimpo International Airport, and quite a large number of the women are running to the FCC to ask for help almost every day.

When talking about how they got involved in the religious group and came to Korea, they say their friends or coworkers in the Philippines asked them if they wanted to have Korean husbands. When they are recruited, they are never told about the Unification Church. They undergo a seminar in each chapter of the church, and then they are matched by the church to Korean men. if they like each other, they attend a mass wedding in Manila with hundreds of other couples. Korean men visit Manila for two to three days to attend the mass wedding, and they cover all the expenses for the wedding plus airfare of the Filipino women to come to Korea.

When the Filipino women arrive in Korea and start to live with their husbands, the women face many problems, like cultural differences, language barrier, and relationship with their mothers-in-law. Violence from their husbands is a particularly common and serious problem. Usually, their Korean husbands are not well educated, live in the countryside, and are generally farmers. Life in the countryside and work in the farm as well as the family life with the husband or mother-in-law seem to be a difficult experience for Filipina to accept.

Filipino women come to FCC with various problems and the most common case is violence from their husbands. There is no solution to this problem so far, and FCC is giving shelter and documenting evidences. FCC also asks for help from the Korean Catholic church regarding this problem.

from pages 125 and 144 of the book Filipino Diaspora: Demography, Social Networks, Empowerment and Culture – Edited by Mamoru Tsuda (2003)

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Korean FFWPU Reverend takes $10,000 from a farmer for finding him a Filipina wife.

The farmer was probably not a member of the Unification Church.

Extract from a dissertation on Marriage migration of Filipina women who marry Korean men. by Minjeong Kim (2008)

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Republic of the Philippines – Office of the President. Documented Unification Church cases include women eventually sold into prostitution upon arrival in Korea.

http://www.pctc.gov.ph/papers/MoneyLaundering.htm

Republic of the Philippines – Office of the President Philippine Center on Transnational Crime

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Read full story here:

FFWPU human trafficking is despicable

Japanese woman recruited and sold by FFWPU to a Korean farmer

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Pope Francis meets Moonies at the Vatican – he was asked to support the UPF in Seoul 2020

Catholic News Agency: Milingo ‘ordains’ two married men; confirms links with ‘Messiah’ Sun Myung Moon

Vatican defrocks exorcist archbishop who was married by Sun Myung Moon

Alerta por los Moonies, amenaza religiosa [Spanish]

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Polish:

Sun Myung Moon odbył ceremonię seksualną

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Former beauty queen Kylie Verzosa bags Best Actress award at DIAFA 2022 - Beauty Pageants - Indiatimes

Former beauty queen Kylie Verzosa bags Best Actress award at DIAFA 2022 – Beauty Pageants – Indiatimes

Miss International 2016 Kylie Verzosa has yet another feather to the hat; the stunning beauty was honoured with the Best Actress award for her performance in The Housemaid (2021) at the Distinctive International Arab Festivals Awards (DIAFA) in Dubai. The Filipina, an accomplished actress in her country, received the award at the Dubai Creek Harbour Marina on the 4th of November. For the event,…

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Former beauty queen Kylie Verzosa bags Best Actress award at DIAFA 2022 – Beauty Pageants – Indiatimes

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“Filipino people hate the Unification Church for selling off Filipina women to Korean men.”

An extradition treaty meant Moon could have been charged with illegal recruitment and incarcerated in the Philippines. 

FFWPU members then smashed the windows of the Philippine embassy in Seoul. 

About 1,000 Filipinas were matched to Korean men. (See below)

MANILA – The government has filed a diplomatic protest with South Korea after the Philippine Embassy in Seoul was damaged in a rally staged by members of the Unification Church, whose members are known as Moonies. LINK

“I recently met several Filipino people, and when I told them I was raised in the Unification Church, they were concerned. Their knowledge of the Unification Church is of young people in the Philippines on the street, selling rosaries and Catholic paraphernalia, hiding their Unificationist identity. Apparently Moonies over there are known for being young and being controlled by church leaders. This is a well-accepted fact in their country. Moonies are also known for their fasting, rejecting food till they reach their fundraising quota. Also, all these Filipino people, none who ever belonged to the church, told me that Filipino people hate the church for selling off Filipina women to Korean men.”

Morpheus (former FFWPU member): “I was on a staff that helped organize picture matchmaking in the late 1990s. Rev. Moon would come in and match all these young Filipino sisters to older Korean men who were not even members. I’m not sure Rev. Moon was aware of the wheeling and dealing that would go on behind the scenes. Many of these farmers and land owners would mortgage their farm to be admitted to these picture matchings. The Philippine Government complained. Discovered later that Korean leaders made lots of money this way.” (22nd April 2015)

… A 31 October 1996 GMA-7 Radio-Television Arts Network report states that an extradition treaty was signed between the Philippine and South Korean governments; members of the Unification Church, including its leader, Reverend Sun Myong Moon, could then be charged with illegal recruitment and incarcerated in the Philippines. source: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada

from Making the Harm Visible. Global Sexual Exploitation of Women and Girls – Speaking Out and Providing Services by Aida F. Santos

“In 1994, a noticeable number of South Korean men came to the Philippines to begin their search for their Filipina brides; in 1995-96, hundreds of Filipino women were married in a mass ceremony to South Korean men through an organization called the Moonies. Protests over this wholesale of Filipinas were launched, and the case is now [in 1999] in the court in the Philippines.”

Aida F. Santos is the project director of the “pilot Project Against Trafficking in Women” currently being implemented by the Philippine Network Against Trafficking in Women. She was the Executive Director of WEDPRO, Inc., a Women’s NGO working with women in prostitution, since the early 1990s to 1998.

Catholic Church helps Filipinas running from violent FFWPU marriages In November 2009, Philippine Ambassador to South Korea Luis Cruz warned Filipina women against marrying Korean men. He said in recent months that the Philippine Embassy in Seoul has received complaints from Filipino wives of abuses committed by their Korean husbands that caused separation, divorce and abandonment. As language and cultural differences become an issue, the Filipina women are regarded as commodities bought for a price.

The Philippines prohibits the business of organizing or facilitating marriages between Filipinas and foreign men. The Philippine congress enacted Republic Act 6955 or the Anti-Mail-Order Bride Law in 1990 as a result of stories that appeared in the local press and media about Filipinas being abused by their foreign husbands.

Illegal recruitment of women by the UC in the Philippines

Many of the women came from the provinces – visited by middle-men connected with the Moonies. Young daughters of farmers in Nueva Ecija said that a Caucasian man arrived in their village with photographs of Korean men looking for wives. Women who showed interest in meeting these men were told to attend a seminar run by the Moonies in Cabanatuan City. Apparently the seminar is intended to educate women about the “ideal family” as a preparation for their meeting with their prospective husbands in Manila.

Since there is legislation banning introduction agencies in the Philippines, the women were advised by their recruiter to tell authorities that their relationships with these Korean men are genuine and that they have been in communication with them for some time. For his service, the recruiter gets $2,000 from each man. This amount, according to the Philippine embassy in Seoul corresponds with fees usually asked from Korean men wanting “housemaids” and “sex partners.”

by Emere Distor – LINK

Church Organization and Its Networks for the Filipino Migrants: Surviving and Empowering in Korea  by Toshiko Tsujimoto

Filipino diaspora is indeed a global phenomenon. Their living and working conditions have been much studied, as the number of overseas contract workers (OCWs) increased. The policies of the Philippine government as well as the host governments have also been examined. In contrast, the activities and role of nongovernment organizations (NGOS) have received little attention, especially those of the church. While the efforts for the protection of human rights and promotion of welfare can be observed among the migrants themselves, the presence of the Catholic church has been particularly significant in many parts of the world. The church is an indispensable organization for Filipinos in their spiritual as well as secular needs.

This essay focuses on one such church-based center in Seoul, the Archdiocesan Pastoral Center for Filipino Migrants, also known as the Filipino Catholic Center, or FCC, and especially pays attention to its support function. The FCC is organized and managed by Filipinos. I aim to show how Filipino migrants cope and deal with their concerns by utilizing support networks. …

Filipina Brides Who Got Married to Koreans under the Unification Church Since February 2000, more than 300 Filipino women who joined a religious group, the Unification Church, and got married to Korean men, have been landing at Kimpo International Airport, and quite a large number of the women are running to the FCC to ask for help almost every day.

When talking about how they got involved in the religious group and came to Korea, they say their friends or coworkers in the Philippines asked them if they wanted to have Korean husbands. When they are recruited, they are never told about the Unification Church. They undergo a seminar in each chapter of the church, and then they are matched by the church to Korean men. if they like each other, they attend a mass wedding in Manila with hundreds of other couples. Korean men visit Manila for two to three days to attend the mass wedding, and they cover all the expenses for the wedding plus airfare of the Filipino women to come to Korea.

When the Filipino women arrive in Korea and start to live with their husbands, the women face many problems, like cultural differences, language barrier, and relationship with their mothers-in-law. Violence from their husbands is a particularly common and serious problem. Usually, their Korean husbands are not well educated, live in the countryside, and are generally farmers. Life in the countryside and work in the farm as well as the family life with the husband or mother-in-law seem to be a difficult experience for Filipina to accept.

Filipino women come to FCC with various problems and the most common case is violence from their husbands. There is no solution to this problem so far, and FCC is giving shelter and documenting evidences. FCC also asks for help from the Korean Catholic church regarding this problem.

from pages 125 and 144 of the book Filipino Diaspora: Demography, Social Networks, Empowerment and Culture – Edited by Mamoru Tsuda (2003)

The Roman Catholic Church of the Philippines tried to stop human trafficking of Filipinas by the Unification Church which was a serious problem from the late 1980s to the mid 1990s. There were court cases against the UC.

See: Republic of the Philippines – Office of the President. Documented Unification Church cases include women eventually sold into prostitution upon arrival in Korea.

Extract from a dissertation on Marriage migration of Filipina women who marry Korean men. by Minjeong Kim (2008)

For Byeong-woon’s family, that makes a living by rice farming, the 10 million won (US$ 10,000) that they saved for marriage with a Filipina was not a small amount. Before he left for the Philippines, he was picture-matched to a Filipina who the Unification Church said was an elementary school teacher. He made an initial payment of $2,000 to the Church for the preparation of the wedding, but right before his departure, the UC reverend came to him and said that the woman changed her mind (although, there is no way of verifying this) and gave him back only $1,500 because $500 was already spent for miscellaneous costs. Since his trip was planned and he thought this time was his chance to marry, he went to the Philippines and was matched to Sheryl. For Byeong-woon’s aged parents who were in their late sixties, the first failure made the prevailing image of marriage migrants (who would marry to migrate to Korea and then leave for cities) a real possibility. They did not want to take a chance of Sheryl running away because that meant the US$ 6,000 they spent for the wedding going wasted and they would need to spend additional funds to find another wife. This compelled them to keep a tight hold on Filipinas physically and financially. Furthermore when Sheryl failed to produce a son, her conservative parents-in-laws’ frustration was exploded antagonistically toward Sheryl.  LINK

Divorce rates among international marriages have seen a huge jump over the past decade.

According to Statistics Korea, divorce from a foreign spouse made up 1.3 percent of total divorces in 2001. In 2005, this figure grew to 3.3 percent and continued to rise to 9.3 percent in 2009 before seeing a slight fall. The latest figures show it’s on the rise again with a slight increase to 9.5 percent.

Studies suggest that the rate is linked to the rising prevalence of domestic violence in those households.

According to a 2010 Domestic Violence Actual Conditions Survey by the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, almost 70 percent of migrant wives experienced domestic violence. This is over 10 percent higher than the domestic violence rate in the general population.

In Korea, domestic violence is viewed as a private matter that should not be spoken about outside of the family. Kang Seong-euy, former secretary-general and counseling center manager at the Women Migrants Human Rights Center of Korea, believes that this is an issue which needs to change. “In Korean and Asian culture, they do not want to discuss family problems outside of the family. But to solve the problems, we need to think logically,” she said.

The center, which works to inform and protect the rights of migrant women in Korea, encourages women who have been subjected to domestic abuse to contact the police so there is an official record, emphasizing that it could be used as a source of evidence should the woman go to court.

“If a woman calls the center for help, at first we try and figure out what the situation is. If there is violence, we ask them what they want to do,” said Kang. If the foreign wife wants to speak with her husband and work it out, the center will contact the husband and explain the situation. If, instead, the wife says she wants a divorce, they ask if she has discussed this option with her spouse before assisting her further.

Many of the problems foreign brides face in Korea stem from the culture difference. Kang explained that foreign women can find it difficult to adapt to their new life and conduct what some would deem as wifely duties – like getting up earlier than their husband to cook breakfast. The “family-to-family”-oriented view that Korean men expect may not translate well to women who are not familiar with Korean culture. “International marriage is very different. When a woman from [overseas] comes to Korea, only one woman goes into the family. So the family expects that she accepts the culture because she is coming to Korea.”

Kang reiterates what many people have said before about the industry: The main problem is a lack of honest information provided to both men and women by the marriage agency. For her, this is the catalyst that other problems stem from.

http://groovekorea.com/article/business-buying-bride

Korean immigration law demands immigrant wives live here for at least two years with an F-2 visa issued to spouses of Koreans before applying for Korean citizenship. If they divorce within two years and foreign spouses fail to prove in a courtroom that their Korean husbands caused the divorce, foreign wives must leave Korea before their visa expires.

We don’t have divorce in the Philippines and an annulment is costly and time-consuming. A Filipina married to a Korean couldn’t simply end her marriage by divorcing her spouse in Korea. That divorce wouldn’t be valid in the Philippines; however, a Korean spouse could divorce a Filipina wife. That leaves her with nothing if she’s not a Korean citizen. What’s worse is that if they have a child, the custody would most likely be given to the Korean father. She will also have to leave the country when her visa expires. This is why I always tell those who ask me for advice about marrying a Korean that they should think about it really carefully.

Moonies demanded $2,000 from Koreans who wanted to have Filipinas as “housemaids and sex partners.”

UC mass wedding of 1,000 couples probed for recruiting prostitutes, nannies

Many non-UC Korean men and Filipinas are recruited or urged by local UC members and matched through UC ceremonies

UNESCO Report: Korean-Filipino marriages under the UC sparked controversy and animosity

FFWPU human trafficking is despicable