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Tuesday, September 01, 2009

 

Negros is ‘hot spot’ for human trafficking

NGO launches Step UP campaign, a preventive program to curb problem among youth sector in province

 
By Ma. Ester L. Espina, Correspondent
 
Negros Occidental joins the list of provinces on the watch lists of groups working to fight human trafficking and worse, has become not just a source of persons being trafficked in various forms of human slavery, but as another “destination.” 

Visayan Forum Foundation executive director, Ma. Cecilia Flores-Oebanda said that their rescue and monitoring operation has indicated that the problem has now been categorized as the third-largest underground business and a $30-million industry.

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O T H E R   R E P O R T S

 

BAGUIO CITY: President Gloria Arroyo this week ordered the Department of Energy and the National Electrification Administration (NEA) to complete electrification of the remaining 743 rural barangay nationwide before the yearend.

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