MANILA BULLETIN
Published June 25, 2022,
by Raymund Antonio
The Philippines, through the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), signed a legal framework program that will allow Rohingya refugees to enter the country and receive their tertiary education here.
Secretary of Foreign Affairs Teodoro Locsin Jr. signed last Wednesday, June 22, the Legal Framework for the Complementary Pathways (CPath) Program for Rohingyas, which aims to provide an educational pathway to eligible beneficiaries and engage relevant government agencies and private institutions to promote durable solutions to help beneficiaries achieve self-reliance.
“This initiative concretizes the country’s pledge at the first Global Refugee Forum in 2019 to explore complementary pathways for admitting refugees and President Rodrigo Duterte’s emphasis on protection for those fleeing for safety,” Locsin said in a statement.
He congratulated the Department of Justice (DOJ) for ushering in the program and getting it off the ground.
Locsin extended his gratitude to the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) “for its support for the Philippine government in this initiative and the area of protection of persons of concern in general, including in the Inter-Agency Steering Committee (IASC) on refugees, statelessness and persons of concern and the Emergency Transit Mechanism (ETM).”
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