Ople Center’s Press Release re Trafficking of Filipino women to Malaysia

News Release Blas F. Ople Policy Center March 25, 2009 Ople Center seeks end to trafficking of Filipino women to Malaysia The Blas F. Ople Policy Center, a non-government organization engaged in the fight against human trafficking and illegal recruitment, urged the Philippine government to take serious steps in addressing the illegal recruitment and trafficking of Filipino women to Malaysia where they are made to work as modern-day slaves. The Center issued the call in response to the repatriation of a new batch of illegal recruitment and trafficking victims that arrived in Pampanga last Monday. The victims included nine women who were recruited by a notorious syndicate led by a Singaporean trafficker based in Malaysia who uses the alias, “Alfred...