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A resolution has been filed in the Senate seeking an investigation into the reported trafficking of Filipino women for surrogacy and trade of infants abroad. In Proposed Senate Resolution No. 1211 filed on Thursday, Senator Risa Hontiveros said an investigation is needed to identify gaps in the current laws to prevent the “new form” of human trafficking scheme.
Hontiveros, who chairs the concerned Senate committee, cited a report that a Philippine agency was found to have trafficked Filipino women into Cambodia to become surrogates for an infant-trafficking syndicate.She said 20 Filipino women who were trafficked into Cambodia were rescued by the local police. Thirteen of them are pregnant through artificial means and have been indicted with human trafficking-related charges by the Cambodian Kandal Provincial Court, Hontiveros said.
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