September 15, 2017 at Naga City

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PARENTAL CONSENT

To Whom It May Concern:

We, the parents of hereby,

Permit/allow my son/daughter to join the STREET MILITARY PARADE AND COMPETITION on


SEPTEMBER 15, 2017 at NAGA CITY.

We instruct him/her to abide with the rules and/or whatever directions called for by the
Teacher or Head of the Delegation.

We hereby affix signature this day of 2017.

Parent’s Name & Signature


"Human Trafficking in Asia is Going Online"

"Technology-facilitated trafficking is more diffuse and adaptive than initially thought, but online tools can
also be creatively employed to counter-cross border trafficking." Human trafficking has a huge base in South-
East Asia with a growing population of over 600 million and almost double that in online users. The use of
mobile phones in trafficking has lead to more accurate "communication and coordination by traffickers to
recruit, harbour, transport, and provide higher numbers of victims for commercial sexual activity or forced
labor." Unfortunately, this broadens trafficker's reach on a massive scale.
Social media offers an advantage to traffickers as well. Traffickers will often use social media to lure
children up to 18 years old into their trafficking rings. For example, a teenager will accept friend request from
an unknown person, message them, agree to met them, and then be forced into a trafficking ring.
" In February 2014, Chinese authorities rescued 382 babies and arrested more than 1000 people suspected
of buying and selling young children online. This followed a six-month operation in which authorities were
made aware of a website promoting private adoptions. Law enforcement authorities subsequently uncovered an
online black market that connected buyers and sellers over four websites, online forums and some 30 groups on
a popular Chinese messaging platform."
Law enforcement is continually improving their efforts to stop online human trafficking. Not only is Asia
improving their human trafficking technology, the United States and Europe have helped by starting the Virtual
Global Task Force. Also anti-human trafficking apps have been created by the Red Light
Traffic organization in the U.S. "the app provides users with potential trafficking indicators and red flags to
identify victims, a 20-minute training exercise to recognise trafficking, an anonymous way to report suspected
cases to local authorities, and a sharing tool to establish a local community network against human trafficking."

PRAY

 Pray God would provide resources, funding and volunteers for those who labor to stop trafficking. Pray
for victims to be rescued, and that they would find hope in Jesus.
 Pray for rescued victims to find physical, emotional and spiritual healing and for courage to continue
moving forward despite their wounds.

GET INVOLVED
Find ministries in your area and get involved on a local level. For a wider view, see:

 International Justice Mission, an organization that protects the poor from violence in the developing
world.

READ
There are a number of books on human trafficking we especially recommend:

 Girls Like Us by Rachel Lloyd

BE AWARE
Trafficking happens in restaurants, hotels, nail salons, airports and shopping malls. Look out for these signs:

 Victims don’t have freedom to move and are closely watched.


 Excessive security in a workplace or home can signal captivity.

PASS THE WORD

 Talk with friends and share information on social media regarding trafficking.
 Warn teens and children about the schemes of human traffickers. They should never meet with anyone
they don’t know. Traffickers might approach in person, online or by a mobile device.
Human trafficking is the trade of humans, most commonly for the purpose of forced labour, sexual slavery, or
commercial sexual exploitation for the trafficker or others.[1][2] This may encompass providing a spouse in the
context of forced marriage,[3][4][5] or the extraction of organs or tissues,[6][7] including for surrogacy and ova
removal.[8] Human trafficking can occur within a country or trans-nationally. Human trafficking is a crime
against the person because of the violation of the victim's rights of movement through coercion and because
of their commercial exploitation. Human trafficking is the trade in people, especially women and children, and
does not necessarily involve the movement of the person from one place to another.

Human trafficking is thought to be one of the fastest-growing activities of trans-national criminal


organizations.[11]

Human trafficking is condemned as a violation of human rights by international conventions. In addition, human
trafficking is subject to a directive in the European Union.[12]

human trafficking

(a) [...] the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of threat or use of
force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of
vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having
control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation. Exploitation shall include, at a minimum, the
exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labour or services, slavery
or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal, manipulation or implantation of organs;

(b) The consent of a victim of trafficking in persons to the intended exploitation set forth in sub-paragraph (a) of
this article shall be irrelevant where any of the means set forth in subparagraph (a) have been used;
(c) The recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of a child for the purpose of exploitation shall
be considered "trafficking in persons" even if this does not involve any of the means set forth in sub-paragraph
(a) of this article;
(d) "Child" shall mean any person under eighteen years of age. [15]

Human trafficking is a modern scourge that is growing in visibility with the spread of globalization. A large
amount of human trafficking involves the flow of victims across national borders. We created the Human
Trafficking Flow Map to be a tool that can be used by policymakers, researchers, advocates, students and the
general public to increase awareness and engage with the problem of human trafficking in an interactive way.

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