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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the first
ten years of the 21st Century
- 2000 to 2009
The Philippines is a source, transit, and destination
country for men, women, and children trafficked for commercial sexual
exploitation and forced labor. A significant number of Filipino men and women
who migrate abroad for work are subjected to conditions of involuntary
servitude in Bahrain, Brunei, Canada, Cote d’Ivoire, Cyprus, Hong Kong,
Japan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Malaysia, Palau, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore,
South Africa, Taiwan, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates. Muslim Filipina
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FEATURED ARTICLES *** Trafficking Of Women And Children A girl child in the Philippines is
discriminated upon early in life due to culture-based and family reinforced
gender biases. For instance, despite her special nutritional needs in
preparation as future mother and nurturer, the girl child is allotted less
food than her father and her brothers. When money for education is scarce,
her brothers are given the preference. The Filipino girl child takes the
stereotyped role of her mother who is portrayed as an abused and submissive
woman relegated to domestic work. Moreover, the public considers girls and
women as sex objects and typifies them as club/bar entertainers, beauty
pageant contestants, and racy or pornographic film stars. The pejorative expectations that
Filipino society has on women and children are compounded by problems of
extreme poverty; massive labor export; globalization; porous borders;
aggressive tourism campaigns; negative portrayal of women by mass media;
pornography on-line and internet chat-rooms; the practice of mail-order
brides; inter-country adoption; and joint military exercises in the country
with visiting forces from abroad. These factors cause women to become easy
victims of sex-trafficking and other forms of sexual exploitation either in
the Philippines or in countries of destination. NBI
raises alarm on child-organ trafficking www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/metro-manila/08/24/08/nbi-raises-alarm-child-organ-trafficking
The National Bureau of
Investigation alerted the public on Sunday over the rampant smuggling of
human organs in the Philippines. The NBI said smugglers are now targeting childen who are kidnapped and taken abroad where their
organs are sold to foreign nationals.
The human smugglers, whose usual buyers are Middle Eastern nationals,
allegedly abduct children and house them somewhere in Mindanao. Lawyer Ferdinand Lavin
of the NBI's Human Trafficking Division said the
victims are provided with vitamin supplements to keep their internal organs
healthy. He said the victims will then be transported outside the country to
undergo surgery for organ transplants. ***
ARCHIVES *** U.S.
Dept of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Children are reportedly trafficked internally for purposes of
commercial sexual exploitation and labor.
Children are also known to be involved in the trafficking of drugs
within the country. There are no reports
of child soldiers in the government armed forces, but children under the age
of 18 are used as soldiers in paramilitary and armed opposition groups such
as the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, the Abu Sayyaf
Group and the New People’s Army. Bur of Democracy,
Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS – Both
adults and children were trafficked domestically from poor, rural areas in the
southern and central parts of the country to major urban centers, especially
Metro Manila and Cebu, but also increasingly to
cities in Traffickers targeted persons
seeking overseas employment. Most recruits were females ages 13 to 30 from
poor farming families. The traffickers generally were private employment
recruiters and their partners in organized crime. Many recruiters targeted
persons from their own hometowns, promising a respectable and lucrative job. Victims faced exposure to sexually
transmitted or other infectious diseases, and were vulnerable to beatings,
sexual abuse, and humiliation Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 2005 [85] The Committee welcomes the
adoption of, in 2003, the new Anti-Trafficking Law (Republic Act 9208) and
other measures taken by the State party in the areas of prevention of
trafficking and protection of victims, such as the establishment of
Anti-Illegal Recruitment Coordination Councils, the Trade Union Child Labor
Advocate (TUCLAS) initiative and the establishment of an Executive Council to
suppress trafficking in person particularly women and children. But the
Committee is gravely concerned about trafficked Filipino children both within
the country and across borders. The Committee expresses its concern about
existing risk factors contributing to trafficking activities, such as
persisting poverty, temporary overseas migration, growing sex tourism and
weak law enforcement in the State party. IACAT
and IJM elated over latest conviction of human trafficker www.pia.gov.ph/default.asp?m=12&r=&y=&mo=&fi=p081128.htm&no=18 The four (4) accused were
convicted for victimizing minor girls, with ages ranging from 14-16 years
old. The victims had been sexually exploited and were made to work as
prostitutes by the accused. One of the four complainants was promised the job
of a cashier, while the other three were told they will work as group
dancers. Instead, they all ended up as GROs in a videoke club and were forced to engage in acts of
prostitution. They also were not brought to Laguna as agreed, but instead to Daraga, Albay. The victims were
never allowed to leave the videoke club, until they
were rescued by the NBI Anti-Human Trafficking Division. - htcp Filipino
children sell kidneys to help parents gulfnews.com/news/world/philippines/filipino-children-sell-kidneys-to-help-parents-1.29276
Some 250 Filipinos, two of them
below 18, have sold one of their kidneys to recruiters who supply them to
patients who need transplants, a local paper has said. "Someone recruited them and they were
paid 112,000 pesos (Dh8,493) each for their
kidneys," Abueva said, adding that forcing or
persuading Filipino children to sell their kidneys is the newest form of
child exploitation in the country today.
Syndicates are now using online marketing, through the internet, where
they offer organs to prospective foreign and local buyers, said Dr Benita
Padilla of the National Kidney and Transplant Institute. NBI
raises alarm on child-organ trafficking www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/metro-manila/08/24/08/nbi-raises-alarm-child-organ-trafficking
The National Bureau of
Investigation alerted the public on Sunday over the rampant smuggling of
human organs in the Philippines. The NBI said smugglers are now targeting childen who are kidnapped and taken abroad where their
organs are sold to foreign nationals.
The human smugglers, whose usual buyers are Middle Eastern nationals,
allegedly abduct children and house them somewhere in Mindanao. Lawyer Ferdinand Lavin
of the NBI's Human Trafficking Division said the
victims are provided with vitamin supplements to keep their internal organs
healthy. He said the victims will then be transported outside the country to
undergo surgery for organ transplants. Oro, Bukidnon top trafficking
cases www.sunstar.com.ph/static/cag/2008/07/29/news/oro.bukidnon.top.trafficking.cases.html Cases of human trafficking this
year are high in Bukidnon province and Cagayan de Oro compared to
other places in Northern Mindanao, said the Commission on Filipinos Overseas
(CFO) Task Force Against Human Trafficking. She said women are more preferred
by human traffickers because of "the availability of the labor force for
women." The "jobs"
offered for women often include forced prostitution, while others land into
forced labor, slavery, servitude, or the removal of organs, she added. Ex-diplomat
implicated in human trafficking www.gulfnews.com/world/Philippines/10227535.html globalnation.inquirer.net/news/news/view/20080710-147507/Ringing-phone-weeping-maid-a-friend-in-deed PRIVILEGE ABUSE - Under labour
rules, Filipino diplomats can recruit personnel from the Philippines to serve
in their own household. In the civil
case she filed against the Bajas and their travel
agency, Baoanan, a registered nurse, said she had
paid P250,000 to her recruiters so that she could enter the US legally. While serving as maid to the family that
facilitated her entry to the US, she said she was to serve them 16 hours a day
and was paid only $100 for three months of work. Human
trafficking victim now an entrepreneur ESCAPING A BAD MARRIAGE - “We washed clothes, cleaned the
house. We were not given breakfast. [We were fed] noodle soup cooked in a
bucket of water with some eggs. The rice was either spoiled or smelled bad.
We were not allowed to talk to each other and we were prohibited from calling
our relatives,” Pacheco said of the ordeal.
The women came from her village in Sapang Bato in Angeles City or from various parts of Mindanao,
all hoping to get jobs in the Middle East, she said. For her part, Pacheco thought she could
escape a bad marriage by working abroad. Trafficking
of Filipinas in Singapore 'unabated'--embassy In November 2007, INQUIRER.net
posted a special report on the growing number of young Filipino women being
lured to Singapore on the false promise of a high-paying job only to end up
in prostitution. The increased
incidence of trafficking of Asian women, including Filipinas, to Singapore
prompted the United States State Department to downgrade the city-state's
rating from Tier 1 in 2006 to Tier 2 this year. Philippine Ambassador to Singapore
Belen Fule-Anota said Filipinas who want to work
overseas must scrutinize their recruiters in the Philippines well and ensure
they have valid contracts before leaving the country. She also advised jobseekers to have their
contracts duly verified by the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration
(POEA) "before packing their bags for Singapore." DOJ
chief, kidney recipient, wants organ trafficking outlawed The issue got the attention of
media, who reported that it was becoming more common for poor people and
prisoners to sell their kidneys and other organs for paltry sums to
syndicates catering mostly to foreign clients. Human
Trafficking in the Philippines: Victims’ Kin Part of Problem — and Solution Dubbed “Tuna Capital of the
Philippines,” General Santos City in southern Mindanao is considered a
trafficking “hotspot” because of the proliferation of bars and transit
houses, according to the Visayan Forum Foundation,
a non-government organization that works to monitor and curb the crime. The
city with its large seaport is a traditional crossing point to nearby Brunei,
Indonesia and Malaysia. But on top of its strategic
location, human trafficking thrives in this city because of effective
parental consent, according to Rebecca Magante,
chief of the local social welfare and development office and secretariat head
of LIATFAT. “The sad fact is that
parents egg their children on when they are approached by these people in the
hope they will send back money to the family,” she says. Organ
trafficking: a fast-expanding black market China, India, Pakistan, Egypt,
Brazil, the Philippines, Moldova,
and Romania are among the world's leading providers of trafficked organs. If
China is known for harvesting and selling organs from executed prisoners, the
other countries have been dealing essentially with living donors, becoming
stakeholders in the fast-growing human trafficking web. Trafficking
of Filipinos in Singapore ‘all-time high’ The modus operandi essentially has
illegal recruiters promise young women non-existent jobs as waitresses or
guest relations officers in restaurants and hotels in Singapore. They are each charged a minimal S$100 to S$1,000
as recruitment fee in the Philippines, and given roundtrip tickets (sometimes
the return ticket is fake), a fake invitation letter, and “show money” for
showing to Philippine immigration officials who scrutinize their financial
capacity as tourists. Expecting to
work in legitimate jobs, Filipinas end up working as prostitutes. They are
forced to provide sexual services to customers and earn commissions from
alcoholic drinks to enable them to pay the $1,000 to S$4,000 they allegedly
owe their handlers. The report said
victims who fled to the embassy were provided shelter and assisted in their
repatriation back to the Philippines. They are interviewed, their affidavit
taken, and are advised to file a complaint either in Singapore or in the
Philippines. Solon
seeks action vs human trafficking in Visayas In a statement, An Waray Rep. Florencio “Bem" Noel said hundreds of Eastern Visayan women and young children are going to spend their
Christmas inside brothels and sweatshops in Metro Manila as the trade of
human trafficking continues unabated. “For these young Warays, Christmas means spending the holidays inside a
dark room with a complete paying stranger or working to death inside
factories not fit for humans," Noel said. “With the grinding poverty, the
cases are bound to increase every year and the solution is the combined
vigilance of Eastern Visayas provincial and local
leaders, law enforcement agencies and the national government through the
DSWD," Noel said. “As the end of school season draws
near, students from poor families are lured with summer jobs in Metro Manila.
The offer is usually tempting for families that cannot afford send their
children in the next school season," he said. He said the victims are usually
recruited as househelp or workers in seedy
factories only to end up working without pay in sex brothels and sweatshops. DSWD
bats for comprehensive program to hasten rehab of human trafficking victims Mrs. Sampang
emphasized to the victim-survivors during the dialogue, not to blame
themselves as they are just victims of ignorance and lack of awareness of the
modus operandi of illegal recruiters.
"Your cases should serve as eye opener to other youth and
individuals not to become the next victim of human trafficking", she
added. On the other hand, Director Finardo Cabilao of DSWD Central
Office noted in his message the increasing incidence in the country of human
trafficking or commoditizing human beings, including such activities as
selling of body organs, mail order brides, hard labor and prostitution which
are becoming customary in nature. Human
trafficking cases in E. Visayas ‘alarming’ Eastern Visayas
continues to be a source of women and children being sent to Metro Manila
brothels and sweatshops, and the number of trafficking cases is alarming,
according to the Department of Social Welfare and Development in the
region. DSWD officials said the number
of human trafficking cases was increasing despite efforts to stop them. She said the victims were mostly
children and women who were recruited by trafficking gangs. The victims end
up working without pay in brothels and sweatshops in Metro Manila, she said. ‘Sex slaves’ sue for human trafficking www.kabayannoli.com/press/2007-1123.htm www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=politics4_nov24_2007 The complainants alleged that they
were recruited by an unnamed Filipina recruiter who has connections with a
Malaysian immigration officer and offered them jobs
as waitresses and were deployed abroad without going through the POEA for
document processing. But against their will, they were
allegedly made sex slaves and were not allowed to go out of the building
where they are housed. There are still more than 40 other Filipinas in the
sex den and more are being recruited, they said. Halfway
houses at ports protect sex trade victims A female recruiter, who promised
Ana a job as a storekeeper in Cavite, flew her from
her home province of Bukidnon to Manila in January
2006. From there, she was brought to Cavite and
forced to work as a guest relations officer (GRO) in a bar and, eventually,
as a prostitute. With three other
girls—all minors—Ana was made to work from 4 p.m. till past midnight. If the
girls refused to cooperate, “Steve,” a nephew of the bar owner, would beat
them or douse them with water. - htcp 161
rescued from human traffickers -- BI Libanan said the human trafficking
victims were rescued when they were barred from leaving the country for being
"tourist workers," or undocumented overseas Filipino workers
disguised as tourists. He said the
bulk of the offloaded tourist workers were bound for the Middle East and
other destinations such as Singapore and Hong Kong. Libanan informed
Arroyo that the BI strictly implemented her directive for the agency to take
the lead in stopping the escort racket to safeguard and protect the interest
of overseas Filipino workers. 25 Pct. Of Global Human Trafficking Victims Are Filipinos www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7008286912 The International Justice Mission
on Thursday said that 25 percent of global human trafficking involves Filipinos,
meaning that for every four humans trafficked across the globe, one of them
is a Filipino. Dealing
with human trafficking Leaving home to work elsewhere is
a dream many Filipinos nurture. It is their answer to poverty and
joblessness. Yet, there have been too many stories of migrants heading for
faraway places, only to find themselves in the worst kinds of employment: as
prostitutes or slaves, doing bonded labor for which they are sometimes not
paid at all. The victims of domestic
trafficking are mostly young men and women from the remote areas in the Visayas and Mindanao. Their destination: Metro Manila.
Most of them end up as prostitutes, domestic helpers or factory workers, and
discover that life in the big city can be a nightmare. Human trafficking on the rise, with easy pickings in RP www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2007/07/20/2003370457 www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryId=84977 A distant relative had duped Quezo's father into allowing her to travel with him to
Manila when she was barely 12, supposedly for a leisure trip. That hot summer
day was the last time she saw her family in impoverished Muslim
Mindanao. The relative turned out to
be a broker for a human trafficking syndicate, but decided to keep Quezo as his personal slave. For three years, the young
girl worked for him as a cook, nanny and maid -- and was not paid a cent. Then one day, her captor forgot to
lock the gates and Quezo escaped, only to end up
lost in the dank alleys of Manila's slums, working odd jobs that paid enough
to buy food and the clothes on her back. Quezo is now rebuilding her life,
learning livelihood skills that should help her reintegrate into society. She
remains hesitant about going home, fearful of her parents' reaction. Human
traffickers rarely punished Statistics from the Department of
Justice (DOJ) showed that since 2003, 248 cases of human trafficking have
been filed, of which the highest number was filed in 2005 with 114
cases. Deanna Perez, Senior State
Prosecutor for DOJ and head of the Secretariat of the Inter-Agency Council
against Trafficking (IACAT), said the slow disposition of cases in the courts
contributes to the low number of convictions. A large number of the cases are
still in the process of initial investigation, she said. Aside from this, some victims have
withdrawn charges for fear of their lives or simply because they cannot
endure the emotional stress of a trial. Women
comprise 75.1% of human trafficking victims in Region 8 last year However, the victims from Region 8
increased from 108 in 2005 to 132 in 2006 or a 22.2 percent increase. What is
most appalling is that more than half or 54.6% of the total trafficked
victims in the region in 2006 were children ranging from 13-17years old. Human trafficking - Editorial www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryId=66375 The country can play an even
better role by intensifying the campaign against human trafficking in its own
backyard. Illegal recruiters continue to lure women and even minors from
impoverished communities nationwide to work overseas as maids or entertainers.
Many of the women end up as commercial sex workers or find themselves unable
to leave employers who abuse them physically and sexually. Talent scout nabbed for human trafficking trafficking.org.ph/v5/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=1456 www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=police2_feb8_2007 A gay fashion show manager sending
Filipino women to Lasala said Fajardo
brought them to nightclub where they had to work 20 hours a day providing sex
during their 23-day stay. The duped
recruits later learned that Fajardo had abandoned
them, taking all their earnings. Human
traffickers found opening up new route in Calbayog-Masbate In the end, Director Corillo said that there is a need to educate the people
especially the young adults so that they will not become victims of human
trafficking. More often than not, the victims give consent to the human
traffickers because they are in dire need for work. Also, many times, the
parents are the ones who push their children by consenting that they go with
the perpetrators. It is the consensus that poverty
is the root cause of victims of human trafficking. Aside from going after the
human traffickers so that they will not be able to continue their illegal
activities, the solution really is helping the families to have sufficient
resources. Bacolod reports 16 cases of human trafficking She disclosed that one of the main
problems they face in dealing with TIP victims is in the reintegration of
victims to their family and community where the lack of social workers is
critically felt. Batapa
is seeking for the accreditation of local Non-Government Organizations that
will fulfill the lack of manpower and competence to handle the victims. The path to recovery of Isabel and Irene www.columban.org/content/view/124/78/ www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryId=51822 The flight schedule was
pinned up on the wall. The pimps arrived and began to argue with the police
claiming that they had an understanding with the police chief. But the police
we had with us were from a different station. While they were busy discussing
the payoff, the Preda team went into the house with
the mother and found Isabel. They got her out into the van and sped away
before anyone could stop them. It was clear that there would be no
investigation and no arrests. If only we could have rescued all the girls it
would have been a great day’s work but unfortunately it was impossible. The
girls were teenagers and one of then had a baby. Here are some suggestions on how
media coverage of trafficking could do better: First, get off this obsession with
“foreign” trafficking. While researching and writing the book “Nightmare
Journeys: Filipina Sojourns Through the World of Trafficking,” I encountered
stories of women who followed a route of domestic trafficking before being
trafficked abroad -- from their small towns to bigger cities, then on to
Manila, before they were shipped out of the country. Domestic trafficking
feeds global trafficking. Next, we could draw attention to
other aspects of the issue: structural problems in society that render women
and children vulnerable, issues of gender inequality and the human rights of
women and children, and the sense of male entitlement that feeds the “demand”
for a growing pool of trafficked women and children. If the media are to cover
trafficking as a “crime,” then they should make the effort to “follow the
story” to its real conclusion, and not stop at just the raid or rescue and
the arrest. Coverage from arraignment, trial and hopefully conviction, would
show both the limitations and potentials of new laws governing trafficking.
For instance, I have just found out that through the efforts of a wide range
of agencies, the government has been able to win convictions for seven
individuals on grounds of trafficking. VP
De Castro, US envoy seeking end to human trafficking De Castro said overseas Filipino
victims are usually undocumented nationals who gain entry into other
countries using visitor’s visas and end up working in sex dens or other
establishments under debt slavery conditions. Some are legally processed as
overseas workers but are victimized through violations of their original
contracts, he added. Team ready vs
human trafficking www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=regions01_sept04_2006 Western Visayas,
particularly Negros Occidental, is one the regions
in the Aside from Western Visayas, Southern Tagalog, Bicol, Central and Eastern Visayas
are also considered to be hotspots, with 127 surveillance and 77 rescue
operations conducted recently, said the labor department. NGO
gets $179,000-US grant for human trafficking victims The United States government has provided
a grant of 179,000 dollars to help a Philippine non-governmental organization
expand its halfway house operations to help victims of human trafficking,
according to a statement by the US Embassy in Manila. IT
skills training enlisted in fight vs human
trafficking Based on the statistics provided
by the Visayan Forum Foundation, most victims are
between 12 to 22 years old. Since 2001, a total of 10, 523 victims and
potential victims of human trafficking in the Philippines have been served in
the Port Halfway Houses, which is a partnership program between the Visayan Forum Foundation and the Philippine Ports
Authority. The numbers may be even higher, however, because of the difficulty
in accurately tracking numbers in all the country's regions. Hi-tech human trafficking in RP getting worse www.scitech.gov.ph/butter.php?opt=3&n_sw=1&newsid=1377 At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
Human traffickers in the IACAT chief Severino
Gaña, Jr. said at a press conference that many
female victims end up working for pornography websites where they perform
sexual acts in front of webcams for paying customers. Microsoft gives P10M to fight human trafficking in RP www.scitech.gov.ph/butter.php?opt=3&n_sw=1&newsid=1378 At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
MICROSOFT Philippines will give 10
million pesos in cash and a software grant to a non-profit organization enagaged in anti-human trafficking activities in the Speaking
the truth on prostitution HEADY DREAMS - Born in the southern part of
the main Philippines island of Luzon, Pascual was
16 when she began working the bars, fresh out of high school and with heady dreams
of becoming a restaurateur. She asked her aunt for help in
getting her a job. The aunt sold her to a man who pimped her to a massive
nightclub of 3,000 girls in Olongapo in return for
a cut of her first four months of "wages." Palace
vows conviction of human traffickers The Palace spokesman issued his
statement after The Philippines was the first
country to adopt in 2003 an Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act. And Quezon City Regional Trial Court Judge Teodoro Bay sentenced a couple to 160 years in prison for
peddling “starlets” to moneyed sex trade clients. There are seven convictions
now. Overall the Philippines has
enough laws, says the Nevada University study. “The problem is
implementation.” In Cebu,
a task force operated ineptly. Police were untrained. Lawyers lacked
understanding of the new law. “The net effect seems to be punishment of the
girls, not the perpetrators.” “They
sit there and look, like this [Cebu] 'barangay' [neighborhood district] official,” the Nevada
University study quotes a nun helping girls trapped in the red light
district. “But he has his own bars. Many of the brothels there are owned by
policemen. ‘Oh, he is my customer,’ a girl will tell us. And now, he is the
one who imprisons me.” Court finds couple guilty of human trafficking THE Quezon
City Regional Trial Court sentenced a couple to 160 years in prison for
peddling starlets and would-be movie stars to moneyed sex trade clients. In a 25-page decision, Judge Teodoro Bay imposed four life terms against Den Jerson Tongco and his wife
Alicia in a second case of conviction against human traffickers in the
Philippines. The Tongcos
were also found guilty of illegally recruiting men and women, whom the couple
promised of jobs in the local entertainment industry, only to end up selling
sex to foreigners, businessmen and moneyed professionals. DFA says 6 more convicted under anti-trafficking law The Department of Foreign Affairs
has monitored six more convictions for violation of the Anti-Trafficking in
Persons Act, increasing to seven the total number of convictions since the
law was passed in 2003. Trafficking Of Women And Children A girl child in the Philippines is
discriminated upon early in life due to culture-based and family reinforced
gender biases. For instance, despite her special nutritional needs in
preparation as future mother and nurturer, the girl child is allotted less
food than her father and her brothers. When money for education is scarce,
her brothers are given the preference. The Filipino girl child takes the
stereotyped role of her mother who is portrayed as an abused and submissive
woman relegated to domestic work. Moreover, the public considers girls and
women as sex objects and typifies them as club/bar entertainers, beauty
pageant contestants, and racy or pornographic film stars. The pejorative expectations that
Filipino society has on women and children are compounded by problems of
extreme poverty; massive labor export; globalization; porous borders;
aggressive tourism campaigns; negative portrayal of women by mass media;
pornography on-line and internet chat-rooms; the practice of mail-order
brides; inter-country adoption; and joint military exercises in the country
with visiting forces from abroad. These factors cause women to become easy
victims of sex-trafficking and other forms of sexual exploitation either in
the Philippines or in countries of destination. Sex worker joins campaign vs prostitution She was sexually assaulted by a
relative. She filed charges against her attacker, but without witnesses, the
case did not prosper. Wanting to
escape from her past, she went with a recruiter who promised her a job that
paid P1,000 a day as a saleslady in The prevalence of human trafficking According to him, Cebu is among the top five areas in the country where
child prostitution and sex tourism are prevalent because it is the destination
of international and domestic trafficking of kids ages 11 to 17 from nearby
provinces of Samar, Leyte,
Bohol, and Illicit cross-border trade is the ugly face of
globalization news.inq7.net/opinion/index.php?index=1&story_id=37812 At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] Unfortunately, in the UNICEF raps child-trafficking in RP If not being forced into
prostitution, children are made to pose nude for pornographic materials or Web
sites. "Parents think that by
taking photographs of their children naked, they are not harming them. But
they are taking away their childhood," NBI Busts Mail-Order Bride Syndicate In his report to Wycoco, NBI Anti-Human Trafficking Division (AHTRAD)
chief Romulo Asis said
the group’s modus operandi was to entice Filipino women to apply for
match-marriages with male Koreans. Asis said Korean clients would come to the Human Traffickers - Japan Is Limiting The Entry Of All Foreign Entertainers Tokyo wants to clamp down on Japanese crime rings, or
yakuza, that bring women into that country from Asia, Eastern Europe and
Latin America for prostitution and forced labor. Sex
Trafficking Growing In S.E.Asia www.chinapost.com.tw/international/detail.asp?GRP=D&id=61645 www.tiscali.co.uk/news/newswire.php/news/reuters/2005/04/26/world/sextraffickinggrowinginseasia.html&template=/news/templates/newswire/news_story_reuters.html Girls from the villages of Wising Up On Sexual Trafficking Of Women And Children [DOC] [scroll down] Freedom
House Country Report - Political Rights: 4 Civil Liberties: 3 Status: Partly Free Human Rights Overview by Human
Rights Watch – Defending Human Rights Worldwide U.S. Library of Congress
- Country Study www.ecpat.net/eng/Ecpat_inter/IRC/newsdesk_articles.asp?SCID=1580 At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] The In the Visayas,
Cebu has been the destination of international and
domestic trafficking of children, aged from 11 to 17, who are from Samar, Bohol, Leyte, Negros and Bacolod. Cebu is now considered one of the top five areas for
child prostitution and sex tourism. Rapid Assessment: Human Smuggling and Trafficking from the
www.aic.gov.au/publications/reports/1999-11-rapid.pdf At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[page 22] PILOT
PROJECT AGAINST TRAFFICKING IN WOMEN - The Pilot Project includes case studies of women who
have migrated for employment or marriage, either to ECPAT
Philippines Launches the Anti-Child Trafficking Campaign in the Philippines THE CHILD TRAFFICKING PHENOMENA - Every year, hundreds of
thousands of children are sold and enslaved. No official figures are available
but many separate studies and assessments have been made: Fifty-four percent
of trafficked children in the Philippines are 15-17 years old and in 1999
there were 85 child trafficking victims documented by the Department of
Social Welfare and Development. GOVERNMENT OF PHILIPPINES' ACTION
PLAN FOR COMBATING HUMAN TRAFFICKING - The Philippines Government has acknowledged the problem
of trafficking in women and children and has carried out activities through
the collective efforts of various national and local government units, in
collaboration with non-governmental organizations, the private sector, and
international donors. The Human Rights of Migrant Workers www.franciscansinternational.org/resources/m_m_phi.php At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
SUMMARY OF THE REPORT OF THE VISIT
OF THE SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR TO THE Priest sets children free - Missionary to Philippines wages ongoing battle against prostitution In 1999 PREDA, through the
International League of Action, was able to bring to justice a group of
Norwegians who were trafficking children from one town in the Philippines and
bringing them to Oslo for sexual abuse. The youngest of these children were
six and seven years old. Internal
Trafficking in Children for the Worst Forms of Child Labour:
Final Report This paper presents an overview of
internal trafficking in children, with focus on the worst forms of child labour. Admittedly, much of previous researches and
discussions on trafficking as a phenomenon had been generally concentrated on
women. As far as children are concerned, and at least within the Philippine
setting, trafficking has been construed more in the context of their sale,
barter and illegal smuggle out of the country. This research document is
based on the following data: (1) interviews conducted with seven trafficked
children; (2) three case studies representing different modes of trafficking;
and, (3) previous researches and studies made by government agencies and
non-governmental organizations which focus on children and child labour. All material used herein
reproduced under the fair use exception of 17 USC § 107 for noncommercial,
nonprofit, and educational use |
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