Wednesday, November 19, 2014

De Lima calls for campaign to beat human traffickers of OFWs to Syria

Story originally published on November 12, 2014

Philippine Secretary of Justice Leila de Lima is calling for a campaign to discourage Philippine migrant workers from traveling to Syria in light of reports that household service workers continue to be smuggled or trafficked to Syria despite a deployment ban imposed by the Philippines. De Lima urged the Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking (IACAT) to come up with the plan and implement the advocacy campaign.

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