Ma. Cecilia Flores-OebandaPresident and Executive Director

Visayan Forum Foundation

•11 Regional offices

•2O Cities/Provinces Project

areas

Human Trafficking

While slavery has been legally abolished all over the world, thousands of people live in slave-like conditions because of human trafficking.

Human trafficking is a serious crime, a threat to every society, especially in Third World countries

Human Trafficking

Human trafficking is the illegal trade in human beings for the purposes of exploitation, prostitution, forced labor:

a modern-day form of slavery.

It is the fastest growing criminal industry in the world, and tied with the illegal arms industry as the second largest, after the drug-trade

Human Trafficking

Next to trafficking of money, drugs, and guns, trafficking in persons is among the most profitable underground business worldwide

US$ 31.6 billion are estimated to be the annual profits from the exploitation (Patrick Besler, 2005)

Trafficking is a crime that transcended borders and does not care about age, gender or race of victims.

12.3 million adults and children are in forced labor (including sexual

exploitation) bonded labor , and forced prostitution around the world; with 2.5

million as a result of trafficking; and over 50% in Asia and the Pacific

(ILO, 2005 Global Report on Forced Labour)

Global Snapshot

An annual report submitted to the US Congress on the foreign governments’ efforts to eliminate severe forms of human trafficking

The US Trafficking in Persons

Report

Philippine Tier Standing Record

•RP does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking

•RP has never convicted any offenders of labor trafficking

•Government did not show evidence of significant progress in convicting trafficking offenders ( 380 pending & only 18 conviction)

•Need serious effort to address the significant level of corruption that allows human trafficking crimes to continue

Why Philippines is in the Tier 2 Watch list ?

The Philippines is a leading source of migrant workers

3rd of the top sending countries in the world in terms of migration

Remittances keep our economy afloat: $16.4 billion, 12% higher than in 2007

13% of the 9 million Filipinos working abroad are professionals.

December 2011, the Philippine President declared that Human Trafficking is a priority issue of his administration. From 2003 to 2010 there were only 18 convictions but this total increased to 38 since the administration began.

Numerous reforms have been introduced including revision of line-agencies policies in order to prevent human trafficking

The PPA and MIAA provided building space for Halfway houses which operate in coordination with Task Forces

VF and partners sited as an international best practice by the U.S. State Department in its 2005 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report.

Making headways …

Establish Community Preventive mechanism and programs

Guard and Choke strategic transit

Mobilize multi-sectoral partnerships (MSNAT)

Providing services and opportunities to trafficking survivors and vulnerable groups

VF anti-trafficking strategies

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FIVE PHASES OF TRAFFICKING

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Life Skills

Training

Social

Entrepreneurship

Information

Technology and

Other

Technical Skills

• Communication &

Interpersonal Skills

• Critical Thinking &

Decision Making Skills

•Job Preparation

•Enterprise Development

• Basic Orientation

Against human

trafficking and other

vulnerabilities

•Self Management &

Coping Skills

• Microsoft Curriculum

• Vocational and

Technical Courses

How Office 2010 can help NGOs work more effectively

Production of advocacy materials easier because of the various desktop publishing software

Communication and networking via the internet and Outlook is easier because of the convenience in managing contacts and information

Trainings and orientations are easier because of

Microsoft Office as a critical social marketing tool

Documentation of Trafficking Cases, Success Stories, Good Practices through the use Microsoft Word 2010

Databasing and tracking of cases through Excel.

Microsoft Acess allows us to sort, analyze and draw conclusions from data to aid

Makes research easier and more efficient because of the ease of sorting data.

Databasing of partners, contacts and finances

Word and Excel facilitate the creation of proposals and making sure that reports are backed by data

Microsoft Office and Information Management

Data-basing of Trafficking Cases and Tracking of Survivors through the use of Microsoft Access 2010

Thru VF-Microsoft step-UP Project which is a Preventive and Protective Measure against Human Trafficking, Office 2010:

serves as a tool to empower migrant workers and vulnerablegroups, especially women and children by giving themeconomic opportunities through I.T. skills trainings coupledwith Daily Living Skills and enterprise development trainings

Hotspot communities are particularly targeted by the program.It levels the playing field and gives vulnerable groups thechance to catch up with the fast changing technology.

Over 30% of STEP UP graduates have been gainfully employed

Contributes to the efficient operations of Visayan Forum

To create massive social awareness in the prevention of trafficking in both the supply and demand side

To sustain public support and ownership among major stakeholders, especially in the government , private sector for policy development at the local and national level.

By streamlining VF operations, facilitating social marketing, enabling communication, helping generate useful information and empowering vulnerable communities

This technology helps us in the WAR AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING (WAHT) campaigns which aims:

For more information about VF, you may call + 63 2 709 0711/ 709-0573/911-3986

or visit our website

www.visayanforum.org