Trafficking in Persons

by Pathricia Ann V. Roxas, Inquirer, Jul 28, 2017 Agents of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) arrested two suspected human traffickers and rescued 17 minors being offered for sexual services in Caloocan City on Thursday.

Associated Press, INQUIRER.net US Bureau, Jul 28, 2017 OKLAHOMA CITY — Owners of an Oklahoma hotel and other businesses engaged in a human trafficking scheme that lured workers from the Philippines promising good wages but instead paid them less than the minimum wage, according to a lawsuit.

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by ROBBY JOY D. SALVERON, Davaotoday, Jul 27, 2017 Deputy Regional Prosecutor Barbara Mae Flores of the Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking (IACAT) Region XI expresses concern over the rise of prostitution among teenagers due to human trafficking. In a press conference in Davao City on Friday, July 27 Flores said most cases of human trafficking…

By ADAM KEALOHA CAUSEY AND KEN MILLER, ASSOCIATED PRESS OKLAHOMA CITY, Jul 27, 2017 Owners of an Oklahoma hotel and other businesses engaged in a human trafficking scheme that lured workers from the Philippines promising good wages but instead paid them less than the minimum wage, according to a lawsuit.

By: Jigger J. Jerusalem , Inquirer Mindanao, Jul 12, 2017 CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – Authorities on Wednesday said they were investigating the extent of the operation of a group running a cybersex den following a raid in Gingoog City on Monday.

By Evelyn Macairan (The Philippine Star), Jul 8, 2017 MANILA, Philippines – The Bureau of Immigration (BI) yesterday reported that more than 43,000 people have been barred from leaving the country during the first year of the Duterte administration as part of the policy of offloading suspected undocumented overseas workers.

Christopher Lloyd T. Caliwan with Monica Guevarra-OJT/PNA), Jul 7, 2017 MANILA, July 7 — The Bureau of Immigration (BI) has vowed to intensify its campaign against human trafficking as it reported that more than 43,000 people were barred from leaving the country during the past year for failure to comply with existing requirements for departing…

We publish our Anti-Slavery Charter: a blueprint for effective action against slavery across the globe. People in debt-bondage making bricks in India 6 July 2017 “Slavery does not merely mean a legalised form of subjection. It means a state of society in which some [human beings] are forced to accept from others the purposes which…

(The Philippine Star, Jul 2, 2017) MANILA, Philippines – An American real-estate company’s court-ordered raid of an online outsourcing company’s headquarters in the Philippines has yielded data linking the latter to an embattled classified advertising website accused of engaging in human trafficking and prostitution, an exclusive story by NBC News has reported.

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,…