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Ang Kalatas. Bringing into focus Filipino presence in Australia

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February 2014
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Call to stop trafficking of workers
“MIGRANTE Australia will continue to pursue in gathering information about these cases and
campaign for the elimination of the root causes of human trafficking.”
Members of the
Migrante Australia
staged a picket
outside the Philippine
Consulate in Sydney
recently denouncing
what they called
the Philippine
government’s
“shameful role as
the biggest human
trafficker.”
llThe activists criticised the

Philippine government’s lack
of programmes to create jobs
back home and stop the export
of workers.
In a statement, Migrante
Australia said it will also look
into cases of Filipino workers
being trafficked into Australia.
“Among the trafficked Filipinos were a significant number of boxers, a woman trafficked for body organ harvesting, 457 visa holders who were
also in a bonded labour situation and in the past years there

were those who were trafficked
for sexual slavery,” according to
the Migrante statement.
“Migrante Australia will
continue to pursue in gathering
information about these cases
and campaign for the elimination of the root causes of human
trafficking.”
M i g r a n t e International chairperson Garry Martinez
said that the government’s labor
export