This document discusses human trafficking in the Philippines. It defines human trafficking as the trade of humans for forced labor, sexual slavery, or exploitation. The key elements of human trafficking include the act of recruiting, transporting or harboring victims, the means of using force, coercion or abuse, and the purpose of exploiting the victims. Common forms of trafficking found in the Philippines include forced labor, debt bondage, domestic servitude, child labor, and sex trafficking. The Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2003 was passed as part of legal efforts in the Philippines to combat human trafficking and protect victim rights and dignity in accordance with international human rights standards.

1. HUMAN
TRAFFICKI
NG
Reported by: Janette S. Sarmiento

2. Outline:
 Introduction
 What is Human Trafficking
 Elements of Human Trafficking
 Types of Human Trafficking
 Major Forms of Trafficking in Persons
 Human Trafficking in the Philippines
 Legal Effort

3. Introduction
What is a crime?
A crime is an act committed or
omitted, in violation of public law,
either forbidding or commanding it. It
is an offense that merits community
condemnation and punishment,
usually by way of fine or
imprisonment.

4. Introduction
Transnational crimes manifest in
many forms, such as trafficking in
drugs, firearms and even persons,
terrorism and other heinous crimes
and have diversified, gone global and
reached macro-economic
proportions.

5. Introduction
Economic crime refers to illegal acts
committed by an individual or a group
of individuals to obtain a financial or
professional advantage.
Economic crime is usually confused
with another term, “CORRUPTION”.
Economic crime generates an
extensive social damage.

6. Human Trafficking
 The trade of humans for the purpose of forced
labor, sexual slavery, or commercial sexual
exploitation for the trafficker or others.
 The recruitment, transportation, transfer,
harboring or receipt of persons, by means of the
threat or use of force or other forms of coercion,
of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse
of power or of a position of vulnerability or of 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.

7. Elements of Human Trafficking
 The Act (What is done)
 The Means (How it is done)
 The Purpose (Why it is done)

8. Elements of Human
Trafficking
 The Act (What is done)
Recruiting
Transporting
Harbouring
Receiving

9. Elements of Human Trafficking
 The Means (How it is done)
Threat or use of force
Coercion, abduction, fraud,
deception, abuse of power or
vulnerability
Giving payments or benefits to a
person in control of the victim

10. Elements of Human Trafficking
 The Purpose (Why it is done)
For the purpose of exploitation, which
includes exploiting the prostitution of
others, sexual exploitation, forced labour,
slavery or similar practices and the removal
of organs.
To ascertain whether a particular
circumstance constitutes trafficking in
persons, consider the definition of
trafficking in the Trafficking in Persons
Protocol and the constituent elements of
the offense, as defined by relevant

11. Types of Human Trafficking
 Forced labor also known as involuntary
servitude
 Debt bondage is another form of human
trafficking in which an individual is forced
to work in order to pay a debt.
 Sex trafficking disproportionately affects
women and children and involves forced
participation in commercial sex acts.

12. Major Forms of Trafficking in
Persons
 Forced Labor
 Bonded Labor
 Debt Bondage and Involuntary Servitude
Among Migrant Laborers
 Involuntary Domestic Servitude
 Forced Child Labor
 Child Soldiers
 Sex Trafficking
 Children Exploited for Commercial Sex
 Child Sex Tourism

13. Human Trafficking in the
Philippines
Human Trafficking
Victims of Human Trafficking in the
Philippines

14. Legal Effort
Republic Act No. 9208 this Act shall be known as the
“Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2003”.
It is hereby declared that the State values the
dignity of every human person and guarantees the
respect of individual rights. In pursuit of this policy, the
State shall give highest priority to the enactment of
measures and development of programs that will
promote human dignity, protect the people from any
threat of violence and exploitation, eliminate trafficking in
persons, and mitigate pressures for involuntary
migration and servitude of persons, not only to support
trafficked persons but more importantly, to ensure their
recovery, rehabilitation and reintegration into the
mainstream of society.

15. Legal Effort
It shall be a State policy to recognize the equal rights and
inherent human dignity of women and men as enshrined in
the United Nations Universal Declaration on Human Rights,
United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, United
Nations Convention on the Protection of Migrant Workers and
their Families. United Nations Convention Against
Transnational Organized Crime Including its Protocol to
Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons,
Especially Women and Children and all other relevant and
universally accepted human rights instruments and other
international conventions to which the Philippines is a
signatory.

16. What can we do to help?
 Get educated on the issue
 Be aware
 Get involved in the fight against
human trafficking