Terms in RA 9208

RA 9208 is the Philippines' law against human trafficking. Below are the terms used by RA 9208

Trafficking of Persons

Recruitment, transportation, harboring or receipt of persons with or without their knowledge or consent. It can take place within or across national borders and is done by means of threat, force, any other form of coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, abuse of power/position, taking advantage of the person's vulnerability, giving/receiving payments/benefits to obtain the consent of the person who has control over the victim. Its purpose includes, at a minimum, the exploitation (whether sexual or not) of others, forced labor/services, slavery, servitude or the removal and sale of organs. 

If the victim is a child, it's still considered trafficking even if none of the above exploitation takes place (see child trafficking.)

Child

The same definition in RA 7610.

Prostitution

Any act, transaction, design or scheme where one person uses another for sexual intercourse or lascivious conduct in exchange for money, profit or other consideration.

Forced Labor/Slavery

Extraction of work/services by enticement, violence, intimidation, threat, use of force or coercion. This includes deprivation of freedom, debt bondage, deception or abuse of moral ascendancy or authority.

Sex Tourism

A program organized by travel and tourism-related establishments and individuals which consists of tourism packages or activities utilizing and offering escort and sexual services as enticement for tourists. This includes sexual services and practices offered during R & R periods for military personnel.

Sexual Exploitation

Participation of a person in prostitution or the production of pornographic materials due to threat, deception, coercion, abduction, force, abuse of authority, debt bondage, fraud or abuse of the victim's vulnerability.

Debt Bondage

The debtor pledges his/her personal services/labor or those of a person under his/her control as security or payment for a debt -and when the length and nature of services isn't clearly defined or when the value of the services as reasonably assessed isn't applied as payment for the debt!

Pornography

Any representation through publication, exhibition, cinema, indecent shows, IT, or by whatever means, of a person engaged in real or simulated explicit sexual activities or any representation of the sexual parts of a person for primarily sexual purposes.

Council

The Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking.