U.S. Department of Labor’s First Annual Iqbal Masih Award for the Elimination of Child Labor Presented
Maria Cecilia Flores-Oebanda, recipient of USDOL’s first annual Iqbal Masih Award, with U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines Kristie A. Kenney
On January 16, 2009, the U.S. Department of Labor’s first annual Iqbal Masih Award for the Elimination of Child Labor was presented to Maria Cecilia Flores-Oebanda by U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines Kristie A. Kenney. Ms. Flores-Oebanda, president and executive director of the Visayan Forum Foundation Inc. (VFF) based in Quezon City, Philippines, has dedicated her life to combating the use of child domestic workers and the trafficking of women and children for domestic servitude and commercial sexual exploitation in the Philippines and internationally. Read more...
