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Olivia Grange Persons convicted of breaching a Protection Order under the Domestic Violence Act are to see an increase in the penalty from $10,000 to $500,000, with up to one year imprisonment. This is among several amendments to the Act that are expected to be signed off by Cabinet shortly. The disclosure came from Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Olivia Grange, as she addressed the Spotlight Initiative Second National Steering Committee Meeting on April 14. In a release, ...

Project Context Trafficking in Persons (TIP) is a serious crime and a grave violation of human rights. Globally men, women and children are trafficked across international borders or within their domestic jurisdictions for purposes of forced labor, domestic servitude, sexual exploitation, harvesting of body organs, forced military conscription and other unsavory practices. The crime generally takes place in dangerous and degrading conditions and involves a range of human rights violations and a...

(Pixabay / FILE PHOTO) “There is a 117 percent increase in OSEC convictions from 2019 to 2020,” Justice Undersecretary Emmeline Aglipay-Villar said on Sunday, April 11.  Villar, who is also the undersecretary in charge of the Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking (IACAT), said the DOJ secured 100 OSEC convictions in 2020 compared to 46 in 2019. The number of convictions in 2020 is also higher than the 49 convictions in 2018, 29 in 2017, six in 2016, 10 in 2015, six in 2014, and two in 2...

SunStar + April 09, 2021 THE Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has called for heightened vigilance on incidents of child abuse amid the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) imposed in the National Capital Region (NCR) and its nearby provinces. The DSWD, which also chairs the Inter-Agency Council Against Child Pornography (IACACP), called on partner-agencies and non-government organizations, as the National Government imposed lockdowns in the NCR and the provinces o...

Published April 7, 2021, 8:31 PM In light of the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) imposed in areas under the National Capital Region (NCR)-plus, Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) – along with its partners – called for “heightened vigilance” against child abuse. In a statement issued Wednesday, April 7, DSWD made the call especially in Metro Manila and the provinces of Bulacan, Cavite, Laguna and Rizal – the areas that are under ECQ from March 29 to April ...

AG: More than pepper spray coming to protect women Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi ATTORNEY General Faris Al-Rawi said Government is coming with more than just pepper spray legislation to combat crime in TT. Responding to a statement from Chaguanas East MP Vandana Mohit about the legislation, Al-Rawi said on Saturday, "I congratulate her for finding her voice finally on the issue of protection of womens rights." "Its unfortunate that she appears to have not paid attention to what happens in Par...

KINGSTON, Jamaica— Chairman of the National Taskforce Against Trafficking in Persons (NATFA...

Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte (FACEBOOK / MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) “Through this, we hope to strengthen the city government’s various efforts to combat trafficking in persons, which victimizes mostly women, and to provide needed assistance to the victims,” Belmonte said in signing the measure, in time for the celebration of the National Women’s Month. Under Ordinance No. 2999 S-2020 or the Quezon City Anti-Trafficking in Persons Ordinance Act, the local government will seek to addre...

Published February 24, 2021, 10:53 AM The Philippine National Police (PNP) has accused the New People’s Army (NPA) of abducting four parents of some of the Lumad minors whom authorities claimed to have rescued from the retreat house of the University of San Carlos in Cebu City. (Photo by: Juan Carlo de Vela / FILE PHOTO) PNP chief Gen. Debold Sinas said the four parents were among the Ata Manobo parents who were supposed to be met by local policemen in Talaingod town of Davao del Norte for ...

Local authorities are now looking into possible violations by the police during an operation conducted in Cebu City to “rescue” 19 Lumad children who were allegedly kidnapped and abused.