VERA Files
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,” […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
By REYAN ARINTO
TACLOBAN CITY — After super typhoon Yolanda swept away her home in Guiuan, Eastern Samar, 14-year-old Noemi was forced to beg for food. Her family lost everything, and had nowhere to go.