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                    [ArticleID] => 968951
                    [Title] => Helping our helpers help themselves
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Recently, I was in Hong Kong and read a news article about an upcoming football match between the Philippine team and the Hong Kong team that was going to be held there.

[DatePublished] => 2013-07-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134481 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1704761 [AuthorName] => Rod Nepomuceno [SectionName] => Lifestyle Business [SectionUrl] => business-life [URL] => http://img856.imageshack.us/img856/9334/lu6a.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 948577 [Title] => American client of Manila cybersex den hauled to jail [Summary] =>

A 54-year-old American from Washington was sentenced by a US court to 12 years in federal prison on Thursday for coercing Filipino minors into doing sexual acts over the Internet.

[DatePublished] => 2013-05-31 16:38:25 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1212169 [AuthorName] => Camille Diola [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/17/cnndocumentaryvideograb.jpg ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 945845 [Title] => Pacquiao plugs CNN docu on Manila prostitution [Summary] =>

Boxing champion and Sarangani Rep. Manny Pacquiao promoted on Friday the encore airing of CNN's full-length documentary The Fighters featuring a woman's fight against sex trafficking in Manila.

[DatePublished] => 2013-05-24 16:24:41 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1212169 [AuthorName] => Camille Diola [SectionName] => News Commentary [SectionUrl] => news-commentary [URL] => http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/1347/cnnpacquiao.jpg ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 941710 [Title] => Iconic fighters save kids from sex traffickers [Summary] =>

Following a two-year CNN investigation, the two-hour documentary The Fighters chronicles Philippine human rights pioneer Cecilia Flores-Oebanda in her journey to protect children from the sex trade and convince the Philippines’ biggest star, Manny Pacquiao, to join her as a fighter in the battle against modern-day slavery.

[DatePublished] => 2013-05-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Health And Family [SectionUrl] => health-and-family [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 849124 [Title] => NGO in US fund mess: We were not given due process [Summary] =>

A non-government organization accused of failing to account for P210 million in funds that came from the US Agency for International Development (USAID) cried foul over what they called a “lack of due process and the rush to judgment.”

[DatePublished] => 2012-09-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804764 [AuthorName] => Janvic Mateo [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 846646 [Title] => DOLE sees better working conditions for maids [Summary] =>

With the passage of the Kasambahay Bill, there would be better salaries and working conditions for the more than two million Filipino household service workers (HSWs), the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said yesterday.

[DatePublished] => 2012-09-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097338 [AuthorName] => Mayen Jaymalin [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 835820 [Title] => Lawmakers urged to approve bill to protect domestic workers [Summary] =>

A non-government organization has urged the House of Representatives to approve House Bill 6144 or the Domestic Workers Act of 2012.

[DatePublished] => 2012-08-07 07:47:14 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 772806 [Title] => MCA, Visayan Forum wage war vs human trafficking [Summary] =>

The Millennium Challenge Account – Philippines and the Visayan Forum Foundation Inc. have signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) to fight human trafficking in the MCA-P project areas of Western Samar and Eastern Samar.

[DatePublished] => 2012-02-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 747253 [Title] => Artists join fight vs. human trafficking [Summary] =>

The Mall of Asia Concert Grounds recently became the venue for a massive rally against human trafficking, when the MTV EXIT (End Exploitation and Trafficking) Foundation, in cooperation with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID), the Visayan Forum Foundation and Dakila — Philippine Collective for Modern Heroism (Dakila), held a free concert last Oct. 29 to raise awareness against the crime.

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An anti-human trafficking advocate from the Philippines was one of this year’s awardees of the prestigious World’s Children’s Prize in Sweden.

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