Many trafficking victims are forced into exploitive conditions, including forced marriages. Image: Ana Santos / IRIN
MANILA: Like numerous Filipinos, 20-year-old Analyn imagined a brighter future on her family members abroad, but rather of a well-paying task, she ended up being forced to marry a person a lot more than twice her age from Southern Korea to obtain an entry visa compared to that nation.
Yet Analyn, whose nightmare began in December 2007, ended up being additionally luckier than many. Before joining her new “husband”, she had to secure a approval certificate through the Commission on Filipinos Overseas ( CFO ), a requirement that is legal dozens of desperate to work abroad, and took the chance to report her situation.
“It is obviously better from leaving the country if we can prevent them. But often the victims don’t know they are victims,” Janet Ramos associated with CFO Task Force Against Human Trafficking told IRIN in Manila. (mehr …)