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February 13, 2014GOVERNING BOARD RESOLUTION NO. 02-14WHEREAS, Republic Act No. 10022 authorizes the POEA Governing Board, after consultation with the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), to impose a ban on the deployment of Filipino migrant workers in pursuit of national interest or when public welfare so requires;WHEREAS, POEA Governing Board Resolution No. 02, Series of 2013 dated 27 February 2013 was issued effectively allowing the processing and deployment of all OFWs, both returning and new hires, to Yemen on the basis of a communication dated 29 January 2013 from the DFA informing the DOLE that it is lowering the Alert Level in Yemen from Alert level 2 to Alert Level 1 in the light of the current security situation in the said country; WHEREAS, in a communication dated 09 December 2013, the DFA informed the DOLE that it has again raised the alert level in Yemen to Alert Level 3 due to the escalation of domestic violence in the country in the aftermath of the 05 December 2013 attack on the Yemeni Ministry of Defense...