DFA signs framework allowing Rohingya refugees to study in PH

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.

 

DFA Secretary Teodoro Locsin, Jr. signs the legal framework for the Complementary Pathways (CPath) program for Rohingyas on Wednesday, June 22, 2022. (Photo from DFA)

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.

PH to start accepting Rohingya refugees -- Locsin

The Manila Times

By Javier Joe Ismael

June 25, 2022

FOREIGN Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. has signed the Legal Framework for the Complementary Pathways (CPath) Program for Rohingya refugees, which will allow the Philippines to accept them into the country where they can also avail of tertiary education training.

The CPath program aims to provide an educational pathway to eligible beneficiaries, utilize a comprehensive approach by engaging relevant government agencies and private institutions, and promote durable solutions by helping 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," Secretary Locsin said.

Duterte says PH willing to aid Afghan, Rohingya refugees

PHILIPPINE NEWS AGENCY
By Ruth Abbey Gita-Carlos
September 22, 2021

 

MANILA – President Rodrigo Duterte vowed Wednesday that the Philippines is willing to extend assistance to Afghan and Rohingya refugees.

While the Philippines has limited resources, it will do its best to “uplift human dignity,” Duterte said in a prerecorded speech delivered during the 76th session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly.

“The imposition of one’s will over another -- no matter how noble the intent -- has never worked in the past. And it never will in the future,” Duterte said.

PH is willing to accept refugees, Duterte tells UN General Assembly

INQIRER.NET

Darryl John Esguerra
Reporter / @DJEsguerraINQ
INQUIRER.net
September 23, 2020

MANILA, Philippines — In his first-ever speech before the United Nations General Assembly, President Rodrigo Duterte reiterated on Wednesday the Philippines’ willingness to accept refugees, including the Rohingyas from Myanmar.

 
Duterte cited the Philippines’ history of opening its doors to the refugees — White Russians following the 1917 Revolution, European Jews during the Second World War, Vietnamese during the Vietnam War in the late 1960s, and Iranians displaced by the 1979 revolution.

Duterte asks Malaysia, Indonesia to take in Rohingya refugees

GMA NEWS ONLINE

Published December 23, 2019 

By VIRGIL LOPEZ, GMA News 

 

President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday renewed his vow to accept Rohingya refugees and asked Malaysia and Indonesia to do the same.

Duterte made the pitch as he faced agrarian reform beneficiaries in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, a territory that saw decades of armed conflict linked to poverty and injustice.

Philippines offers citizenship to Rohingya refugees

  The Daily Star

Wednesday, "February 27, 2019"

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has offered Filipino citizenship to the Rohingya refugees. 

In this picture taken on October 9, 2017, a Rohingya refugee reacts while holding his dead son

 after crossing the Naf river from Myanmar into

 Bangladesh in Whaikhyang. Photo: AFP

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has offered Filipino citizenship to the Rohingya refugees as he reiterated his willingness to accept them into the country.

“I am willing to accept Rohingyas. ‘Yung talagang walang mapuntahan tatanggapin ko ‘yan, gawain kong Pilipino,” he said in a speech before a convention of the League of Municipalities of the Philippines at the Manila Hotel, reports GMA News, an online portal of a major commercial broadcast company of Philippines.