attendants, and indigenous peoples with the end of putting in place a human rights based and sustainable strategy towards safe deliveries; and f) review the consent requirement, whether practiced locally or mandated by law, in view of complaints that such requirement denies women and girls access to RH services and autonomy over their bodies. On the needs of rural women, indigenous women and Muslim women living in the autonomous region of Muslim Mindanao (para. 30) 43. While the State Party claims that it is implementing programs for rural women and women in the informal sector,45 consultations conducted by the Commission highlight the vulnerability of women in the informal sector to abuse and exploitation, without receiving any social benefits and services. Similar findings were reported for rural women regarding access to social, health, education and employment services. 44. The Committee may wish to reiterate its previous recommendation for the State Party to enhance the situation of rural women in the informal economy and report on the results and impact of its implementing programs. OTHER MATTERS On labor trafficking and women migrant workers 45. In March 2016, members of the Commission met with Filipino teachers in Washingto n, D.C. who were victims of labor trafficking. They complained of having been issued employment visas from the United States through a certain recruiter, only to discover the absence of available work in the United States. The Commission is concerned at the number of victims, which has reached a thousand Filipino teachers, who are mostly women. 46. The Committee may wish to recommend that the State Party address labor trafficking by reviewing, in coordination with host governments, the issuance of employment visas to ensure the validity and existence of actual employment. 47. In a forum46 conducted by the Commission with women migrant workers, emerging issues included the issues raised by Batis Center for women on women migrant workers who were divorced/annulled by their foreign spouses and who, despite a Supreme Court decision allowing them to remarry in the Philippines, found it extremely difficult to have the divorce judicially recognized in the Philippines. Other emerging issues raised included health concerns of women migrants with diverse SOGIE, women migrants living with HIVs, and women deportees from Sabah. 45 46 See CEDAW/C/PHL/7-8, para. 155. In Focus: Women Migrant Workers, Persons with Diverse SOGIE and the CMW Concluding Comments (8 December 2015), in partnership with the Center for Migrants’ Advocacy and UN Women; Page 10 of 11