Child prostitution sa Philippines

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Invisible Boys: Inside the Push to Help Unseen Victims of the Sex Trade

Most victim-advocacy work has focused on the crime's prevalent image: girls and young women forced into prostitution. But researchers are starting to upend that model, uncovering signs that many more boys are trapped in the illegal sex industry than previously believed. One study, by the John Jay School of Criminal Justice, determined that nearly half of commercially exploited children in New York City were young males.


http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/invisible-boys-inside-push-help-unseen-victims-sex-trade-n503921

You need to read this

The sickening abuse was exposed in an undercover investigation by Belgian journalist Peter Bridge - whose name has been changed to protect his identity. Bridge spent two years investigating suppliers of online child sex abuse in the Philippines and identifying their clients for a documentary, ‘Children of the Cam’. 

Bridge worked with Women and Children Protection Centre of the Philippine National Police and US NGO the International Justice Mission, an American NGO to expose the sickening trade in child abuse. Posing as a paedophile, he established contact with ringleaders, gaining their trust, and was invited into the child cybersex dens. Read more: 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3393713/She-sat-eight-year-old-girl-lap-asked-want-Inside-Filipino-cybersex-den-pot-bellied-paedophiles-pick-girls-abused-webcam.html

Famous rescuer of sex slaves

St. Nicholas rescuing trafficked girls, a Serbian icon...

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Focus on Supply Chains

Our goods are often produced far from where they are bought, successively changing hands along complex and opaque supply chains. Many supply chains are marred by forced and child labor, with documented abuses...

The Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (TIP Office) has supported a variety of programs to address human trafficking in supply chains. During the past year, grantees have helped expand knowledge and understanding of the complex nature of supply chains, identified harmful labor recruitment practices, and implemented strategies to prevent trafficking and empower workers. The following examples highlight some of these efforts.

http://www.state.gov/j/tip/rls/fs/2015/245177.htm

"The seduction and trafficking of minors" by Lila Ramos Shahani

“James X,” had been recruiting minors from Surigao del Sur in Mindanao, promising them lucrative marriages to foreigners, and the opportunity to live happily abroad while sending money home to their families. Instead, he lured them to a cyber-porn den in Quezon City, made them perform naked in front of the camera, raped them, made them service foreign customers—mostly Norwegian, American and Australian...

When he was finally nabbed by the Philippine National Police in November 2014, James had no remorse, saying that all he wanted to do was give the children a better life. Interestingly, he himself had been, among other things, a male prostitute in Saudi Arabia—a victim tragically victimizing others in turn.

“Marie,” who recounts her ordeal with “James X” in this interview, was recently rescued from a cyber-sex den in Quezon City. Read the interview here...

http://www.philstar.com/opinion/2015/08/17/1488859/seduction-and-trafficking-minors

7 ways to spot that someone is being trafficked

Airports are hubs for human trafficking -- where adults or children are transported into forced labor or commercial sexual exploitation.

Almost every country in the world is affected by trafficking, and traffickers often use air travel to move their victims. Sometimes, victims are flown into another country on the promise of a legitimate job, other times traffickers move their victims within a country, to keep them powerless or to avoid detection.

But you can help. By being aware of the telltale signs that someone is being trafficked, you may be able to keep them from a life of modern slavery.

We asked four organizations involved in anti-trafficking initiatives to share some of the signs that could indicate that a passenger is being trafficked through an airport. Warning signs: ...http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/30/travel/human-trafficking-at-airports/

Fighting trafficking with data

Barry Koch, formerly a managing director at JP Morgan and now chief compliance officer of Western Union, recalls that JP Morgan’s Financial Intelligence Unit first approached human trafficking through a data-driven lens. “With public domain information and law enforcement partnerships, we realized that we could design financial models that would produce correlations in the data that were red flags for trafficking.” The team partnered with the United States Department of Homeland Security to create typologies to identify financial transactions and account attributes that were worth investigating....

Certain geographic locations and types of businesses – nail salons, non-unionized stores, restaurants – were viewed as a higher risk for trafficking activity, based on publicly sourced information. Coupled with the types of transactions – credit card charges at certain hours of the night, for example – JP Morgan’s Financial Intelligence Unit began to see distinct patterns emerging.

Read the rest of this article here...

https://agenda.weforum.org/2015/02/how-data-can-help-fight-human-trafficking/

Infographic: Undercover Operations

Infographic: The process of targeted undercover operations to free sex slaves. Regular people like us can help anti-trafficking organizations do this...

http://www.theexodusroad.com/first-quarter-2015/#.VWeju8LbLIU

Child-care worker exposed as the boss of a international paedophile ring

A child welfare worker who led a secret life as the defacto boss of a paedophile syndicate was caught after international authorities caught a group member overseas. Former Families SA employee Shannon McCoole, 32, faced court in Adelaide on Friday over his role in operating a website contained more than 50,000 images of child porn he believed was ‘helping’ other paedophiles.

Australian police discovered McCoole’s organisation with the help of European police in May 2014, shortly before he was arrested for offences against seven children, six of whom were in his care, according to News Corp Australia.

Families SA is part of the Australia Department for Education and Child Development.




Read the story here:
http://www.preda.org/news/world/child-care-worker-exposed-as-the-boss-of-a-international-paedophile-ring-after-agroup-member-was-caught-overseas-and-says-he-wants-to-work-withkids-again/