Trafficking in Persons

BY JOMAR CANLAS, TMT, Manila Times, July 1, 2017 The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday welcomed the US State Department’s report citing the Philippines’ efforts to stop human trafficking, and vowed to strengthen measures against “modern-day slavery.”

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by Christopher Lloyd T. Caliwan/PNA), Jun 30, 2017 MANILA, June 30 — Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II on Friday urged Inter Agency Council Against Trafficking (IACAT) to continues intensify the campaign against the human trafficking in the country. Aguirre made the statement after the Philippines remained in Tier 1 ranking in a new United States…

By The Nation, Jun 30, 2017 THE JOINT Standing Committee on Commerce, Industry and Banking (JSCCIB) will soon ask the government to hold the third round to register nearly 3 million illegal foreign workers in the country, said Thai Frozen Foods Association president Poj Aramwattananont.

International Justice Mission says abuse comes in many forms, with children’s parents even sometimes involved in their own exploitation by Patty Pasion, Rappler, Jun 29, 2017 MANILA, Philippines – Eight in 10 victims rescued from online sexual exploitation are minors, with some of them as young as two months old, said International Justice Mission (IJM).

By: Ericka Lynn Nava, INQUIRER.net U.S. Bureau, Jun 29, 2017 “To c Jose (not his real name) da, iya eon ako sa Singapore owas ka text ka ina naobosan ako it load “Donato”– this message, sent on September 15, 2010, was the last message that Jun (not his real name) received from his brother, Jose,…

Businessworld, Jun 29, 2017 THE PHILIPPINES ranked high in terms of enforcement against human trafficking, according to a report on this global phenomenon newly released by the US State Department.

BAP, GMA News, Jun 28, 2017 The latest Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report of the US State Department shows the Philippines with a Tier 1 ranking for the second time in a row.

BY TOOTS OPLE, Manila Times, Jun 26, 2017 THE Philippines is the only country in Southeast Asia that made it to Tier 1 in the 2016 Trafficking-in-Persons Report issued by the United States Department of State. This week, we expect the US government to release its 2017 report. Are we facing a downgrade from Tier…

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The Star/Asia News Network, Jun 22, 2017 KOTA KINABALU– A 30-year-old Filipino woman was slapped with a 70-year jail sentence for trafficking seven women related to sex exploitation.

By ED UPRIGHT, Reuters, Jun 19, 2017 LONDON — Flight attendant Donna Hubbard was deeply concerned when a couple carried a boy who was sweating, lethargic and appeared to be in pain onto her flight from Honduras to Miami in October last year.

By RIE TAKUMI, GMA News, Jun 9, 2017 The government has signed a memorandum of understanding with the private and labor sectors providing them access to the Philippine Overseas Employment Administrations’ databases containing information related to illegal recruitment.

by Anna Felicia Bajo/BAP, GMA News, Jun 1, 2017 Four minors were rescued from an online child pornography syndicate in Iligan City. According to a report by GMA News’ Mariz Umali on “State of the Nation with Jessica Soho” on Thursday, one of the victims is a two-year-old child of one of the suspects.

By Rey Galupo (The Philippine Star), May 24, 2017 MANILA, Philippines – Seven women were rescued and a Chinese man was arrested yesterday as police raided a building in Quezon City used by a slavery ring.

By Chito Chavez, Manila Bulletin, May 23, 2017 The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) expressed confidence that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) members would support the Philippines in fighting human trafficking in the region.

ABS-CBN News, May 23, 2017 Six Chinese nationals on Tuesday were arrested after offering P150,000 for marriage to 7 Filipinas so they could take them to China to be farm workers.

Philippine Daily Inquirer, May 13, 2017 Authorities have rescued four girls and arrested a mother and two other women for allegedly livestreaming sexually exploitative videos of children to men paying by the minute to watch from the United States.

BY SHIELA GELERA, Visayan Daily Star, May 10, 2017 The three minors allegedly used in cybersex and rescued in Barangay Handumanan, Bacolod City, Friday,are set to undergo debriefing and pyschosocial intervention, Senior Police Officer 4 ArlynTorrendon, officer-in-charge of the Bacolod Women and Children Protection Desk, said yesterday.

by Martha Mendoza And Jim Gomez, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 9, 2017   MABALACAT, Philippines — The suspected pedophile could see people banging on his front door through his security cameras. Were they neighbours? Cops? One had letters on her jacket. As David Timothy Deakin googled “What is NBI?” from the laptop on his bed,…

04/21/17 France – IOM, with support from the European Union (EU), has launched an online platform featuring a transnational referral tool designed to strengthen professional response to the needs of victims of human trafficking.

18 April 2017, http://www.recruiter.co.uk/news/2017/04/bahrain-housemaid-agency-under-investigation-%E2%80%98win-domestic-worker%E2%80%99-ad Labour Market Regulatory Authority (LMRA) in Bahrain has suspended a recruitment agency for placing an online advert offering the chance to ‘win a domestic worker’.

BY ATTY. DODO DULAY, Manila Times, Apr 18, 2017 IN the Philippines, where an estimated eight million Filipino migrant workers have either worked or are still working overseas, human trafficking looms as an ever-present threat, especially in some Middle Eastern countries whose laws and cultures do not recognize certain forms of human trafficking as a…

By: Tetch Torres-Tupas, INQINQUIRER.net, Apr 11, 2017 The Philippines and the US government on Tuesday signed an agreement to enhance the campaign against child trafficking and abuse in the country.

By: Ed Margareth Barahan, INQUIRER.net, Apr 11, 2017 Workers seeking overseas employment should be wary of fake job offers circulating online. In statement issued on Tuesday, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said: “Filipinos who are planning to work abroad should always be more careful of the too-good-to-be-true job offers being posted online. Avoid applying with…

UNTV News, Apr 10, 2017 MANILA, Philippines — About 2,000 human trafficking victims nationwide had been assisted by the government in 2014, based on a report from the Department of Social Welfare Development (DSWD) .

by Belinda Luscombe, Oct 28, 2014 As it has become clear over the last few years that sex trafficking takes place on every continent (O.K., maybe not Antarctica), approaches to defining it and ending it have changed. While there are ghastly situations in which young girls’ virginity is sold off by their debt-stricken parents in…

By: Allan Macatuno, INQInquirer Central Luzon, Apr 05, 2017 OLONGAPO CITY — Police here have arrested one of Tarlac province’s most wanted suspects during a manhunt with Tarlac policemen.

03/04/2017 http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2017/04/03/pope_%E2%80%98human_trafficking_worsening/1303041 (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis told a Vienna “Trafficking in Persons” conference on Monday it is time to put an end to the “worsening tragedy” of child trafficking and slavery. The Pope’s words came in a message read out by Fr. Michael Czerny, SJ, Under-secretary of the Migrants and Refugees Section of the Dicastery…

By: Allan Macatuno, INQInquirer, Mar 29, 2017 OLONGAPO CITY — Six teenaged girls were rescued on Tuesday (March 28) by agents of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) from an alleged human trafficker operating at Subic town in Zambales province.