In 2012, the Philippine government passed into law the Expanded Anti-Trafficking Persons Act of 2012 which defines “trafficking in persons” as:
…the recruitment, obtaining, hiring, providing, offering, transportation, transfer, maintaining, harboring, or receipt of persons with or without the victim’s consent or knowledge, within or across national borders by means of threat, or use of force, or other forms of coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, abuse of power or of position, taking advantage of the vulnerability of the person, or, the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person for the purpose of exploitation which includes at a minimum, the exploitation or the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labor or services, slavery, servitude or the removal or sale of organs.
...the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, adoption or receipt of a child for the purpose of exploitation or when the adoption is induced by any form of consideration for exploitative purposes shall also be considered as ‘trafficking in persons’ even if it does not involve any of the means set forth in the preceding paragraph. [1]
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[1]Section 3 of the Expanded Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2012. Taken from
http://www.gov.ph/2013/02/06/republic-act-no-10364/
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[1]Section 3 of the Expanded Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2012. Taken from
http://www.gov.ph/2013/02/06/republic-act-no-10364/