MANILA, Jan. 10 -- Government agencies will sit down this week to tackle transnational matters, including overseas Filipinos on death row.

During a press briefing in Malacanang on Tuesday, Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) Secretary Susan Ople said she will meet with Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin, Labor Secretary Bienvenido Laguesma and Foreign Affairs Secretary Enrique Manalo on Friday.

Sixty-five overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) are on death rows, according to data shared during budget hearings last year.

"For example, iyon nga mga death row cases, iyong pag-transfer ng (those in the death row cases, the transfer of the) ATN (Assistance to Nationals) work from the ATN officers of our embassies to our migrant workers attaches, ...