VERA Files
Kamakailan, naglabas ng listahan ng departure requirements ang Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking para raw protektahan ang Filipino travelers at siguraduhin na hindi sila mabibiktima ng mga sindikato ng human trafficking. Makalipas ang isang linggo, Aug. 31, sinuspende ito ng Department of Justice.
10 years, 10 stories.
Sa isang komentaryo nitong Nob. 8, binatikos ni Sen. Leila De Lima, nakakulong na kritiko ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte, ang digmaan ng kasalukuyang administrasyon sa mga droga at ikinumpara ito sa kanyang “pakikibaka laban sa human trafficking.”
Three facts about the country’s war against modern slavery.
Amiel was 16 when he was introduced to “freelancing” by peers who seemed to have money all the time. Envious and eager to know where they got cash to splurge on shoes, clothes and casual gimmicks, the teenager asked his friends about their dirty little secret.
By NICOLE-ANNE LAGRIMAS AND PAUL JOHN DOMALAON SILENCE was the name of the game when Jane* was forced into prostitution. Threatened by her traffickers that they would “ruin her life,” she could not even tell her mother what she was going through. She was made to take illegal drugs while she was being abused. “Sobrang […]
By DANIEL ABUNALES Faith, not her real name, was an easy target. Only 17 years old, she was already living by herself in another city, working to earn enough for herself to get by and still provide for her family back in the province. Her monthly wage at a fastfood chain was P900, although some […]
By JAKE SORIANO UPI, Maguindanao–The local police here warned residents against accepting job offers to work as housekeepers in Marawi City due to reported cases of exploitation there. The Upi Police Station Women and Children Protection Desk (WCPD) said illegal recruiters and traffickers have been preying on poor women minors from the barrios. With the […]
By JAKE SORIANO A top foreign affairs official said some 2,000 overseas Filipino workers, all of them victims of human trafficking, remain trapped in Syria three years after civil unrest broke out there. Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Senior Special Assistant Renato Villa said during a migration conference earlier this week the Philippine government is […]
By OFELIA C. EMPIAN
BAGUIO CITY— Her city is not among the known human trafficking hotspots in the country yet the cause has found a champion in Regional Trial Court prosecutor Ruth Bernabe.