By: Marlene Alcaide, News5, Mar 22, 2017
At least three persons were rounded up when law enforcement elements swooped in on a suspected human trafficking ring operation in Taguig City Wednesday.
The three, two women and a man, were arrested for pimping minors to foreign clients by way of cyber human trafficking arrangements.
The arrests were made by personnel of the National Bureau of Investigation Anti-Human Trafficking Division at a hotel in Taguig.
One of the women picked up in the entrapment operation was suspected of pimping her own daughter.
Two of the children used by the pimping ring were aged seven and 15. They were being offered for sexual exploitation and pornography purposes in exchange for money.
The arrests were made possible through close cooperation with the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which had been monitoring the cyber activity going on between the local perpetrators and their clients in the US.
According to DHS sources, the Philippines accounts for a very high incidence of cyber human trafficking and child exploitation incidents. Notorious are such places as Taguig, Cavite, Pampanga, Cebu and a few areas in Mindanao.
The suspects face charges of qualified human trafficking in relation to the Cyber Crime Prevention Law and the statute against child abuse.
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IT’S WOMEN’S MONTH!
“Respect and support women
every day of the year/s!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO Constitution
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to carry out the recommendations of the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry
against serious violations of protocols of
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Women’s Role in History Month
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Week 1: Environmental Week;
Women’s Week
Week 3: Philippine Industry and “
Made-in-the-Philippines Products Week
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Daily Observances:
March 8: Women’s Rights and
International Peace Day;
National Women’s Day
March 4: Employee Appreciation Day
March 15: World Consumer Rights Day
March 18: Global Recycling Day
March 21: International Day for the Elimination
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March 23: International Day for the Right to the Truth
Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations
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March 25: International Day of Remembrance of the
Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
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