🎓 Studies

Full Length Report: Online Sexual Exploitation of Children in the Philippines: Analysis and Recommendations for Governments, Industry, and Civil Society

This report presents the results of a study into the nature and scale of OSEC in the Philippines. This study was led by IJM, in partnership with the Philippine Government and a variety of stakeholders, under the U.S.-Philippine Child Protection Compact (CPC) Partnership between the U.S. Department of State Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons and the Government of the Philippines.

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📰 News

Real Results from Investigative Workshop in the Philippines

The Advanced Investigative Workshop, held March 25-April 5 in Cebu, brought global collaboration from nations like Australia, the U.K. and the U.S. to the fight against cybersex trafficking of children—leading to breakthrough in real cases in the Philippines, and the rescue of 14 victims.

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Online Sexual Exploitation of Children in the Philippines: A Review of the Criminal Justice System’s Response

This report summarizes the baseline study findings of the Philippine Government’s response to the Online Sexual Exploitation of Children as it was in 2017.

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Child Sex Trafficking in Metro Manila

A study measuring the prevalence of children in commercial sexual exploitation in Metro Manila, the Philippines

📖 Stories

Kim thought nothing was wrong. But that was about to change.

🎓 Studies

Evaluation of the Program to Combat Sex Trafficking of Children in the Philippines: 2003-2015

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Child Sex Trafficking in Angeles City

A study measuring the prevalence of children in commercial sexual exploitation in Angeles City, the Philippines

📰 News

76-year-old American Man Arrested, Sisters Now Safe from Sexual Predator

The day before summer break began marked the beginning of a new season for three sisters who had been groomed and abused by a 76-year-old American man. The girls, 9, 10 and 13 years old, disclosed awful details of abuse perpetrated by this man they called “daddy,” a former American law enforcement officer living on his pension and teaching English at a school in the Philippines.

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Bar in Cebu is Shut Down after Employees Convicted for Trafficking

CEBU, PHILIPPINES – A heavy chain today locks the doors of the Red Lips bikini bar in Cebu, Philippines. The bar was permanently shut down last week. Just a few weeks ago, as American families sat down to their Thanksgiving meal, officials halfway around the world gave thanks for shutting down a bar that trafficked girls and women in Cebu, Philippines. IJM had assisted with the original rescue operation, and staff were on-site for the momentous occasion.