At least 210 Filipino human trafficking victims have been repatriated from some other Southeast Asian countries, Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Assistant Secretary Paul Cortes said Wednesday.
“So far po nakapagpauwi na po tayo ng 210 na mga kababayan nation from Cambodia, Laos, at Myanmar na naging biktima ng illegal trafficking,” he said at a televised public briefing.
During the recent ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Indonesia, DFA Secretary Enrique Manalo said the group of officials expressed commitment in fighting human trafficking.He said authorities in the past months discovered that many Filipinos were offered to work in Thailand as call center agents but they were transported to Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar as a part of a human trafficking scheme.
According to him, ASEAN mechanisms such as the ASEAN Convention Against Trafficking in Persons and ASEAN Declaration on Transnational Crime address the problem.
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