Financial difficulties have led some families to
traffic their own members in an effort to make ends meet, such as the case of a
number of families in Ibabao, Cebu, who forced their children to perform sexual
acts on the Internet for pedophiles all over the world. ““That, my dear
friends, is the biggest tragedy of the human trafficking problem when the very
primary defense against the malaise actually abets it,” said Vice President
Jejomar C. Binay during the Workshop on Human Trafficking organized by the
Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines.” In line with this, Binay said
the fight against human trafficking thus begins with strengthening the Filipino
family, which he dubbed as the “frontline defense mechanism against human
trafficking.” The Vice-President then urged the CBCP to discuss how to
strengthen the family, and laid out possible solutions to the inter-connected
issues of poverty and human trafficking in the country. Binay is the chairman
emeritus of the Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking.
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