Around 66 Welfare and Development Officers (WEDOs) from foreign recruitment agencies in Bahrain recently attended a seminar aimed at strengthening their capacity to protect Filipino workers, with discussions covering workers’ rights, legal protection and gender sensitivity in the workplace.Organised by the Philippine Embassy’s Migrant Workers Office (MWO) and the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA), the seminar was held at the Downtown Rotana, Manama, under the theme ‘Know Your Rights and Be Protected and Gender and Development’ .
