ZAMBOANGA CITY -- Sixteen female victims of trafficking were rescued by authorities at Bongao seaport in Taw-Tawi province on Saturday, April 23. According to the Naval Forces Western Mindanao (NavForWeM) report, the victims were on board MV Kristel Jane 3 when they were rescued by NavForWeM...
PARIS, France – Left in care homes and now threatened by war, thousands of already vulnerable Ukrainian refugees are at risk of being trafficked as they are uprooted by fighting across the country. Some have come under Russian fire in their care homes. Others fled amid the sound of...
Twelve minors, who the police said are victims of trafficking, were rescued by authorities in Taguig City on April 5. They were rescued at about 1:45 p.m. by personnel of the Philippine National Police’s Women and Children Protection Center-Transnational Crime Investigation Task Force...
(PIXABAY) The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) renewed its public appeal to report cases of child trafficking, including the facilitation of illegal adoption of children through various social media sites. The process for legal adoption must start through legitimate child caring...
The Bureau of Immigration (BI) said Friday, Feb. 25, that it has stopped 688 human trafficking victims from leaving the country last year at international ports. Likewise, it deferred the departure of more than 13,000 passengers, many of whom were believed illegally recruited by labor syndicates....
Assistant Minority Leader and Gabriela partylist Rep. Arlene Brosas on Sunday demanded church leader Apollo Quiboloy, who was indicted by US prosecutors for sex trafficking, to "stop playing victim" as well as "stop likening himself" as "modern-day Joseph." Brosas in a statement said Quiboloy,...
PANAMA CITY, Panama -- Panamanian authorities announced Thursday that as part of an operation to disrupt a sex trafficking ring, 10 children were rescued and three people in Panama and Costa Rica were arrested. US Department of State ''The victims in this case range between the ages of four and 16...
Voting 23-0, the Senate unanimously approved on third and final reading the bill strengthening the Philippines’ law against human trafficking or Republic Act No. 10363, also known as the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act. Sen. Risa Hontiveros, chair of the Senate Committee on Women, Children,...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Wednesday called on lawmakers to strengthen the country’s anti-trafficking laws to effectively combat online child abuse cases in the country which surged during this time of a COVID-19 pandemic. Gatchalian, who chairs the Senate Committee on Basic Education, Arts...
Detained Senator Leila de Lima on Sunday, Jan. 2, said the Department of Justice (DOJ) should be flexing the long arm of the law on real criminals and not on members of the political opposition like her. De Lima made the remark after the recent dismissal of a drug trafficking case against Kerwin...
The Philippines has played a leading role in a high-level meeting with United Nations (UN) member states where they reached a consensus to intensify efforts on the non-punishment principle of human trafficking victims. Ambassador Enrique Manalo (Photo courtesy of the New York PM/DFA) Ambassador...
President Duterte will "execute the laws accordingly" when it comes to the case of his beleaguered friend, Pastor Apollo Quiboloy. President Rodrigo Duterte (Malacañang photo) Cabinet Secretary and Acting Presidential Spokesperson Karlo Nograles gave this assurance in a recent press conference....
