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 VISAYAN FORUM FOUNDATION, INC. is a non-profit, non-stock and tax-exempt non-government organization in the Philippines established in 1991. VF works for the welfare of marginalized migrants, especially those working in the invisible and informal sectors, like domestic workers, and trafficked women and children.


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Katie Ford joins War Against Trafficking
Katie Ford meets with U.S. Ambassador Kristie Kenney to forward the anti-human trafficking cause. Ford Models's Katie Ford, also a roving United Nations (UN) ambassador for the campaign against human trafficking, recently visited the country and met with US Ambassador Kristie Kenney to discuss steps to raise awareness and garner more support for the world's 27 million human trafficking and modern-day slavery victims, most of whom come from the Asia/Pacific, including the Philippines....more
Groups move to promote domestic work
The push for an International Convention for Domestic Workers and the passage of a Philippine Magna Carta for Domestic Workers is gaining momentum. Migrant and local workers and trade union groups on Monday reaffirmed their call for a new international treaty on promoting decent work for domestic workers....more
VF wins first Iqbal Masih Award
MA. CECILIA FLORES-OEBANDA, president and executive director of Visayan Forum Foundation, Inc., accepts the first Iqbal Masih Award for the Elimination of Child Labor from Ambassador Kristie Kenney. In her official blog, Ambassador Kenney dubbed Ms. Flores-Oebanda as an everyday hero for her work against child labor and human trafficking....more
VF President win Skoll Award for Social Entrep
Visayan Forum and its founder, Ma. Cecilia Flores-Oebanda has recieved the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship for 2008....more
Landmark Trafficking Conviction
Anti-trafficking movement hails landmark conviction. A multi-sectoral network against trafficking in the Philippines led by Visayan Forum Foundation Inc. (VFFI) hails a landmark verdict handed down by a local judge in Batangas City last June 30 against a female trafficker who was sentenced serve life imprisonment and pay two million pesos for violating the anti-trafficking law....more
Microsoft and VF expands STEP-UP parntership
Stop Trafficking and Exploitation of People through Unlimited Potential or STEP-UP is a joint program of VF and Microsoft geared towards helping victims and vulnerable communities gain IT skills as a strategy to prevent Human Trafficking....more
War Against Human Trafficking
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VF Founder declared Trafficking in Persons Hero
Since 2001, Visayan Forum has rescued and provided assistance to more than 32,000 victims and potential victims of trafficking, and has helped file 66 trafficking cases on behalf of 166 victims. Ms. Flores-Oebanda is also the recipient of Anti-Slavery International’s Anti- Slavery Award in 2005 and the Skoll Foundation Award for Social entrepreneurship in 2008....more
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