Setting Women Free

Human trafficking remains the fastest growing business of

organized crime. Around the world, women and children are

trafficked and sold at astonishing rates. Vulnerabilities

include poverty, lack of education, poor job prospects, family

abuse and the need to support families. The numbers have

exceeded the slave trade of the 1800s by 100 times already,

and as networks become more organized, this tragedy isn’t

going to go away. Forced into a life of sexual servitude, these

women, girls and child are victimized over and over again,

each and every day.

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The Philippines welcomes tourists from all over the world to

its magnificent landscapes and beaches. Visitors often

remark on the warm welcome they receive from locals and

marvel at the beauty of this country. Its dark underside is

where over 100,000 young children and women are fed into

the sex trade annually, either in the Philippines or trafficked

to countries such as China, Japan, the Middle East, North

America and Europe.