Abused Filipino workers in Cyprus to get help

A GROUP of Philippines women living in Cyprus has offered to translate Owaat’s self-help website on filing for emergency civil protections into Filipino to assist any of their compatriots facing abuse to seek help.

According to a report by Cyprus Mail, Owaat is the world’s first international self-help website for abused women to learn their human rights and file applications for emergency civil protection orders. 

The Owaat website is currently available in Greek, English, Russian, Arabic, Yoruba and Italian. 

The Filipino version is expected to be launched within the year with Spanish and Dutch versions by 2020.

Cyprus domestic worker Lissa Jataas, a Filipina and founder of the female migrant domestic workers’ association Obreras Empowered Female Domestic Workers in Nicosia volunteered herself with three Obreras members to translate the One Woman At a Time (Owaat ) website into Filipino.

Jataas said Obreras wanted to help Owaat guide the first Filipino abused domestic worker woman in Cyprus to claim her right for a court issued and enforced emergency civil protection order under the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, also known as the Istanbul Convention (IC).  In Cyprus, it was put into force of law last March.

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