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House Deputy Speaker and labor leader Democrito C. Mendoza on Wednesday suggested the country should launch programs and “whole-of-society” response against rising cases of illegal recruitment and human trafficking to save Filipinos lives. The “pandemic of human trafficking” has threatened thousands of Filipinos who “just want to provide a decent life for their families,” said Mendoza….
MANILA, Philippines — Senator Risa Hontiveros on Saturday welcomed the move of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to file criminal charges against a female immigration officer who was allegedly involved in facilitating the flight of trafficked individuals to Cambodia. “Ang pagkaso sa mga Bureau of Immigration (BI) officers ay isang napakahalagang hakbang para tuluyang…
An information campaign targeting Filipinos seeking to work abroad is necessary to help protect them from groups that will recruit them to work as scammers, Migrant Workers Secretary Susan Ople said Wednesday. In a TV interview, Ople said that aside from Myanmar, the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) is also looking at human trafficking incidents…
THE recent United Nations report on the rising incidence of modern slavery should be a concern for the Philippines, where remittances from overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) drive growth. Besides their economic contribution, OFWs comprise an important political sector, and they have been called heroes for bearing high social costs in choosing to work abroad. The…
Immigration officers man their post at the Naia Terminal 1. INQUIRER FILE PHOTO / LYN RILLON MANILA, Philippines — The Bureau of Immigration (BI) on Thursday ordered its personnel stationed in international airports to tighten the screening of Filipinos leaving for Japan amid reports of human trafficking and illegal recruitment. In a recent memorandum, BI…
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