Problems In The Philippines

Philippines boosts efforts to fight human traffickers

When Anne was given a chance to work abroad as a waitress, it was an offer she could not refuse. Life in her impoverished village of Tarlac, north of Manila, offered few opportunities. Her family did not have money to care for her sick brother. "The recruiter was from our town," she recalls. "I was told that all girls they recruited now have better lives and can help their families. It was as if God sent me an answer to my problems."

Within a few weeks, Anne, then 16, was working in a sex den in Malaysia.

"When we arrived, they took me to a hotel room with my new boss and he raped me. After that I was sold to different men, sometimes 10 men a day," she says. "We were sex slaves. The only rest we had was to go to the toilet. They beat us if we refused to do what a customer wanted. And our boss had men who held us down and forced us to use drugs." Anne and 60 other Filipinas worked under slave like conditions – under constant watch by guards and sleeping on the floor in padlocked rooms: "They would starve us – sometimes three of us would share a cup of noodles. And if we did not make enough money, we did not eat."

Anne became one of the lucky ones when a customer helped her escape. But she is just one of tens of thousands of Filipinas trafficked each year, women whose stories might end differently but share the same beginnings. Local human traffickers target the poorest communities, lure young girls and women away with promises of a better job and trap them with no resources, contacts and very little chance of escape.

The Philippines has become very fertile ground for human traffickers. Because many live in poverty , the remittances sent home by relatives working abroad improve the lives of families left behind and fuel the country's economic growth. But this has also led to a "culture of migration". Cecilia Flores-Oebanda, president of Visayan Forum, a Philippine NGO campaigning against human trafficking , explains: "The majority of Filipinos believe that finding work outside the country is the only way to have a better life."

It is this desperation to take any job opportunity, combined with the porous borders of the archipelago's 7,000 islands and widespread corruption among government agencies that have allowed trafficking to operate with impunity. For the past two years, the Philippines has been on a US Department of State watch list of countries that America thinks could do better at combatting traffickers.

On Monday, the latest state department assessment found the country had made "significant efforts" in taking on the gangs that smuggle people overseas, partly a reflection of 25 trafficking convictions secured over the last year – up from nine the previous year. But it added: "Law enforcement officials' complicity in human trafficking remains a pervasive problem in the Philippines, and corruption at all levels of government enables traffickers to prosper.

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