Weekly Media Report and HT Insights & Webinars (29th April – 5th May 2024)
Media Report Highlights
4th May: Wajir Woman Representative Fatuna Jeho has appealed to residents to prioritize education for girls and shun the retrogressive culture of forcefully driving them to early marriages.
Human Trafficking Insights and Trends
Online Sexual Abuse and Exploitation of Children (OSAEC) is normalized within vulnerable communities in the Philippines, leading to the perpetuation of the crime from one generation to the next, according to findings from Justice and Care’s latest report. The belief that financial payments from foreign perpetrators help victims; the pervasive fallacy of “no touch, no harm”; induction into OSAEC facilitation by friends, neighbors and family members; and the transfer of criminal knowledge within communities, all contribute to intergenerational cycles of abuse which are further enabled by social media platforms and the ease with which contact can be transferred from public to private spaces. (Herein Attached: Facilitation-of-Online-Sexual-Abuse-and-Exploitation-of-Children-OSAEC-in-the-Philippines-FR-FINALpdf)