{"id":47491,"date":"2015-04-23T04:30:08","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T20:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=47491"},"modified":"2025-01-29T04:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T09:25:10","slug":"ofw-groups-to-hk-politician-well-sue-or-protest-if-you-wont-apologize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/04\/23\/ofw-groups-to-hk-politician-well-sue-or-protest-if-you-wont-apologize\/","title":{"rendered":"OFW groups to HK politician: We\u2019ll sue or protest if you won\u2019t apologize"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Regina Ip (Photo by K.Y. Cheng)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Various Filipino migrant organizations in Hong Kong threatened ex-security chief and now lawmaker Regina Ip that they will sue or protest in the streets if she continued in refusing\u00a0to apologize for referring to a large number of Filipino domestic helpers as \u2018marriage wreckers.\u2019<\/p>\n

In Ip\u2019s op-ed article published last Saturday in Ming Pao, a Chinese-language newspaper in the region, she mentioned about \u2018families wrecked because of relationships between Filipino maids and male employers.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cI have received complaints from expatriate women\u2026 that Filipino domestic helpers seduce their husband,\u201d she wrote. \u201cI could only tell them that under the current law, it is quite difficult to regulate.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ip also mentioned about testimonies of expatriate wives attesting about their helpers having affairs with their husbands. She questioned why the international media seemed to report more about abuses committed by employers and none about these illicit relationships.<\/p>\n

\u201cRather than reporting improper behavior by local employers, should we pay more attention to Filipino maids becoming sexual resources for foreign men in Hong Kong?,\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n

Ip, with the aforementioned remarks, stood firm and refused to apologize.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhy should I apologize? I have really received such complaints about the maids and I am only stating facts,\u201d she said in an interview, adding that people were just making \u2018a big fuss out of a small issue.\u2019<\/p>\n

With Ip\u2019s unrepentant words, United Filipinos (Unifil), the biggest organization of Filipino migrants in Hong Kong, became angry and aghast. The group now started to consider filing a racial discrimination case against Ip.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst, it is racist since we Filipinos were singled out. Second, it is anti-women because it labels us, Filipino women as \u2018malalandi (flirts)” who seduce male employers and wreck families,\u201d Unifil chairperson Dolores Balladares-Perez said.<\/p>\n

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Bethune House Migrant Women\u2019s Refuge, though has not yet expressed actions on sues nor protests, still felt that Ip\u2019s words were disgraceful for a politician, and a woman even more.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the worst statement she has made against migrant workers\u2026 She should be banned from holding public office.<\/p>\n

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She should not be in government if she thinks that way. She should never be elected,\u201d Bethune House Migrant Women\u2019s Refuge executive director Edwina Antonio said, adding that Ip had always been anti-migrant.<\/p>\n

Hong Kong legislator Claudia Mo, on the other hand, had already filed a similar case, accusing Ip of \u2018blatant racism.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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