The Division of Justice (DOJ) plans to accentuate its marketing campaign in opposition to human trafficking to guard “youngsters, girls, aged and different susceptible individuals pressured to be victimized due to poverty.”
“Human trafficking can’t be solved by the whole-of-government strategy solely, it should be a whole-of-nation strategy,” Justice Undersecretary in-charge for the IACAT Nicholas Felix L. Ty stated in Filipino on July 17 in a information launch.
For 9 consecutive years, the Philippines has maintained a Tier 1 rating within the US State Division’s 2024 Trafficking in Individuals (TIP) Report. This top-tier standing displays the nation’s compliance with the minimal requirements set by the US Trafficking Victims Safety Act of 2000 for combating human trafficking.
“We are going to additional intensify our marketing campaign to cease trafficking in individuals by bringing the perpetrators to justice and figuring out and aiding victims,” Jose Manuel G. Romualdez, Ambassador to the US stated.
In step with the continued work to fight trafficking and on-line sexual abuse or exploitation of kids (OSAEC), the three-day initiative program headed by the Division of Justice (DOJ), the Particular Motion and Intelligence Committee for Transportation (SAICT) actively participated within the Barangay Inter-Company Council Towards Trafficking (IACAT) 2.0 actions from August 22 to 24.
Video displays, lectures, roundtable discussions, fellowship gatherings, motorcades, and knowledge campaigns could be utilized as a multi-faceted strategy to equip native officers and residents with data and instruments to forestall Trafficking-in-Individuals (TIP) inside their communities.
Public areas resembling transport terminals, ports, bus stations, and airports are sometimes focused by human traffickers, in accordance with the SAICT.
The SAICT encourages the general public “to stay vigilant report suspicious actions, and defend youngsters from traffickers.” – Almira Louise S. Martinez
