Vice President Jejomar Binay said on Thursday that the fight against human trafficking must begin with strengthening the Filipino family, which he dubbed as the “frontline defense mechanism against human trafficking.

“For the needs of the family are what drive the victims into the arms of human traffickers,” Binay, chairman emeritus of the Inter Agency Council Against Trafficking (Iacat), told participants of the Seminar/Workshop on Human Trafficking organized by the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP).

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