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| From: Esquire.com |
The International and Local Sex Trade is big and there are many Filipino women working locally and abroad in the flesh trade as sex workers whether it be in the streets of Manila to Wan Chai District in Hong Kong, Singapore's Geylang area and some brothel in the African country in Ivory Coast for example wherein they are mainly catered to fellow Filipino expatriates (OFWs) or Asian men (Mainland Chinese or sometimes European expatriates to be exact) only just to name a few.
These Pinays are being recruited by some local headhunters in Metro Manila or somewhere within our country with the promise of better fortune, lure of more income and the dream of working abroad. Not knowing they will end up in some brothel or being trafficked and handled by Asian gangs who are raking money in the prostitution rings in these countries or somewhere around the world.
In the Philippines, the government established Republic Act 9208 or Anti-Trafficking Act of 2003 by former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in May 26, 2003. However, laws have loopholes and law enforcement agencies are using this for extortion of the caught prostitutes into victims of their dirty ploy and tactics.
The United Nations adopted the the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children (also referred to as the Trafficking Protocol or UN TIP Protocol) is a protocol to the Convention against Transnational Organized Crime. It is one of the three Palermo protocols, the others being the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air and the Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing and Trafficking in Firearms back in April 2000. The Protocol was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2000 and entered into force on 25 December 2003. As of June 2013 it has been ratified by 156 states. (see UNODC Website).
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