New award for anti-trafficking advocate
"We stand firm to continue our fight," Ma. Cecilia Flores Oebanda said last night in a ceremony to celebrate the recognition given to her and Visayan Forum Foundation by the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship... |
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New gov’t policy on kidney donation opposed by kidney specialists
 When 50-year old Dominador “Doming” Umandap, a resident of Calauag, Quezon, arrived home from Metro Manila sometime in early 2007, he had a fresh scar on his side and thousands of pesos in cash in his pocket—proof that he successfully donated his kidney... |
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More foreigners seen to benefit from new DOH policy on kidney donation
 The Department of Health’s (DOH) new policy on kidney donation, published Thursday in some Manila newspapers, could lead to more foreign patients suffering from end-stage kidney disease coming to the Philippines for their transplants as other countries clamp down on the kidney organ trade.... |
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Campaign Against Human Trafficking Goes Local
How can LGUs prevent human trafficking in their areas? The Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking (IACAT) has one answer: it drafted a model ordinance that provides for the formation of a Local Committee on Anti-Trafficking and Violence Against Women and their Children.... |
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Dirty Dance and Bedlam in Hong Kong
 From an airplane window, Hong Kong’s skyscrapers, busy harbors, and shopping hubs look like a paradise, often provoking hearty applause among travelers touching down at Chek Lap Kok airport... |
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Korea: New Way Out for Pinoys
 When Korea became a developed country, its women shied away from difficult and dangerous jobs. This paved the way for the entry of foreigners in its entertainment industry...
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Pinays Escape Via the Backdoor
 The more adventurous women exit through Zamboanga’s ports and head for Jolo and Bongao Port in Tawi-Tawi. They hide in the Turtle Islands where they wait to be transported, disguised as barter, to Malaysia ...
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Japan Cracks Down on Human Trafficking
 Since the 1980s, nongovernment organizations have identified Japan as a haven of human trafficking. For more than two decades, Japanese authorities closed their eyes to violations of human and labor rights, including its regulations prohibiting foreigners from working as hostesses ...
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The Road to Italy
 Why would anyone dismantle a life, leave home and loved ones and everything that is dear and familiar to go on a harrowing voyage? Would it be the want, the dream of lovely little stucco houses, televisions and washing machines and lilac bushes along a white picket fence? Or would it be something more elemental? Like the memory of a father with whom one was just joking and having supper one moment and then whose body is later riddled with bullets as his wife and his children watch?...
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Internet Porn: Untouchable Crime
 Who wants this job? You have your own air-conditioned computer workstation connected to the Internet and equipped with a webcam and a microphone. You pose in front of the webcam, invite clients to a private chat room, tickle their sexual fantasies, have cyber sex, and keep them glued as long as you can. You are the “model” and they are your “clients” who pay you by the minute... |
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Human Trafficking 101: What trafficking is all about
 Eighteen-year-old Julie (not her real name) was working in a beerhouse in her hometown of Cebu when an opportunity difficult to ignore presented itself. Alicia Tongco, who introduced herself as an owner of a talent management agency in Manila, offered to make her an actress and to become her manager. It was an opportunity she couldn’t pass up... |
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Sex For Moonlighters
Twenty-five-year-old Tina Cruz (not her real name) first came to Singapore in October last year, not quite prepared for the job that was waiting for her. “My best friend’s cousin works here, too, so she helped me when I was back in Manila looking for another job,” she says... |
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Going After Traffickers
There are very few documented cases of trafficking of Filipinas to Singapore. But the scant numbers are deceptive... |
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Saving the Japayukis
When Japan implements its new immigration rules in March, 90 percent of the Filipino entertainers there will no longer be qualified to work in that country again. Given the US$351 million that these “japayukis” have been sending home yearly, the government’s instinct was to ask Japan to postpone the implementation of the new rules... |
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Sob Stories
As Korean soap operas bring stories of endless love and winter dreams to Filipinos audiences back home, reality for thousands of Filipinos in South Korea tends to be more about trouble and tears, and too few happy endings... |
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The Underage in E-Sex
In the latest bizarre twist to cyber pornography in the Philippines, children under 10 are being made to perform sex acts before Web cameras linked to Internet sites that anyone in the world can see for a fee... |
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