I'm Giancarlo Enrico S. Pozon, a Wushu instructor, investor and Barrister... That's right, Barrister; I graduated from law school and took the Bar Exams, now I'm waiting for the results. I created this blog to make Philippine Law easy to understand for the average person. It's all about free legal advice. There are many law blogs. But the problem is that many of them are written for lawyers and law students. They use words that can't be understood by ordinary people.
Many lawyers, judges and law students consider themselves as superior to most human beings because of their knowledge of the law. It bothers me since the law is supposed to serve society. Since the law is meant to serve society as a whole, it is important that is must be understood by everybody.
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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.
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