Senator Leila de Lima on Monday renewed her call for the Senate to look into the status of the implementation of existing laws that aim to protect children from any forms of sexual abuse and violence. De Lima made the call following reports of operatives of the Philippine National Police...
Senator Joel Villanueva on Tuesday, May 4, called on the Bureau of Immigration (BI) to sustain its “one-strike” policy against immigration officers (IOs) and personnel found to be involved in human trafficking activities. Villanueva made the appeal to BI Commissioner Jaime Morente during the...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Tuesday, May 28, took the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and other government agencies to task for the alleged modus of some government officials facilitating the production of fake passports and aiding human trafficking syndicates to recruit Filipino minors to work...
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) should hasten the repatriation of all trafficked Filipinos, especially minors, in Syria, Senator Risa Hontiveros said on Monday, May 3. Hontiveros reiterated her call after “Alice,” a trafficked overseas Filipino worker (OFW) whose experience came to...
The four-year partnership between the United States and the Philippines to combat online sexual exploitation and child labor trafficking has resulted in the arrests of 97 perpetrators and successful identification of 312 victims, a joint US and Philippines report said Thursday, April 29. Department...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Tuesday, March 16 said she will investigate the supposed involvement of Bureau of Immigration (BI) officials in the outbound trafficking of Filipino women. Sen. Risa Hontiveros (Senate of the Philippines / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) Hontiveros made the commitment after...
