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Category Archive 'Outstanding Women'

19.01.09

Filipino lauded for fight vs child labor

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MANILA, Philippines–Maria Cecilia Flores-Oebanda has been awarded the first Iqbal Masih award for the elimination of exploitative child labor, according to the United States Department of Labor.

Deputy Undersecretary for International Affairs Charlotte M. Ponticelli said the US agency is giving this award to acknowledge Flores-Oebanda’s lifetime battle against the use of child domestic workers and the trafficking of women and children for domestic servitude and commercial sexual exploitation in the Philippines and internationally.

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26.11.08

Filipina might retain presidential chef post

- News, Outstanding Women -

24.11.08

Filipino novelists land bestseller list in Singapore

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