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Working Children in Source Communities
THE CHALLENGE. Despite the dramatic economic performance ang strong legal framework on child protection developed in the Philippines, the rural-urban migration of children in search for work continues unabated as solid proof that development for the poor majority remains unreal.
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Trafficking of Children and Women
It is realistic to observe that even before working outside the country, many young women and children have at least ventured in cities away from home. Many eventually seek lucrative opportunities overseas, after gaining some experience and contact in bigger local cities. However, many also are freshly recruited from remote country-sides even without such experiential familiarity. In all these methods of labor migration, trafficking by its very deceptive modus operandi is undoubtedly among the most alarming mode of facilitation.
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Child Domestic Workers
A LOOK AT THE INVISIBLE. Child domestic work is one of the most disturbing features of Filipino life. It is disturbing because of its very nature - domestic work performed by a child, increasingly by very young girls, some as young as 8 years old, isolated and separated from their families. It is also disturbing because of the high incidence of deceptive recruitment and trafficking that characterize it. Finally, it is disturbing because of the very exploitative working conditions that also make these children vulnerable to sexual abuse
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