E/CN.4/2003/85/Add.4 page 4 (g) Support, in terms of knowledge, awareness raising and development of skills, be provided to the communities with large numbers of OFWs in order to strengthen family structures, prevent abuses and exploitation and facilitate reintegration; (h) The Government pursue its efforts, in cooperation with the Government of Malaysia, to better monitor deportations from Sabah; DFA should adopt measures and policies to monitor deportation cases filed against Filipinos in Malaysia and ensure adequate assistance to deportees by consular and embassy personnel; consular and embassy officials should investigate and document incidents of abuses during the deportation proceeding and detention up to the moment of embarkation from Malaysia; (i) Adequate assistance be provided to the local government of Zamboanga to enable it to deal with the emergency created by the deportation of OFWs from Sabah, and measures taken to ensure their reintegration in their areas of origin and to avoid the disintegration of families; (j) Adequate resources be provided, policies adopted and programmes implemented to ensure the application of international human rights standards concerning the apprehension of irregular migrants, deportation, family reunion and conditions of detention; (k) Foreigners detained in the Philippines pending deportation be given adequate access to courts and lawyers and their cases reviewed by competent authorities without undue delay, and steps taken to ensure that victims of trafficking to the Philippines are not criminalized; (l) The Government consider the possibility of revising the jurisprudence relevant to the application of the Immigration Law in order to ensure that it does not give rise to cases of abuses against foreigners and that it does not discriminate against foreigners with regard to property rights; (m) The United Nations Country Team and other international agencies strengthen their support to the Government of the Philippines in the above-mentioned endeavours.

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