A team from the Inter-Agency Council Against Human Trafficking (IACAT) of the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO) is currently here to intensify and enhance its campaign regarding the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2003, particularly because Palawan is reportedly being used now as “transit point of human traffickers”.

Janet B. Ramos of the CFO-Policy, Planning and Research Division said the recent incident involving 13 females who were supposed to be smuggled to Malaysia through barangays Rio Tuba, Bataraza and Mangsee, Balabac in southern Palawan by an unidentified recruiter alerted them to focus on the need to increase awareness against human trafficking in the province.

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