Story originally published on October 16, 2014
A joint initiative by the International Organization for
Migration, the Inter Agency Council Against Human Trafficking and the U.S.
State Department hopes to counter human trafficking in Tacloban City,
Philippines. The initiative, called ‘Victim Centered Counter-Trafficking
Awareness in Typhoon Haiyan Affected Areas in the Visayas’, will operate for
two years from October 2014 to September 2016. The goal is to raise awareness
of the problem of human trafficking, as well as how to identify its victims.
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