Over 60,000 child prostitutes are estimated by

UNICEF.

The Philippines is still the fourth country with the highest number of prostituted children.

Authorities affirm there is an increasing number of child molesters coming into the Philippines.

the recruiters attract their victims with the promise of jobs in the country or abroad and better life conditions but instead they are forced and controlled

into the sex industry, slavery and organs traffic;

sold off by their poor families.

children are stolen from their villages

Victims are either kept in brothels and sweatshops, or sold or pimps “own them”.

Article 3

“Everyone has the right to life, liberty

and security of person.”

Article 4“No one shall be held in

slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave

trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.”

Article 5

“No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment

or punishment.”

Article 23“(1) Everyone has the right to work, to free

choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against

unemployment.(…)

(3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for

himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social

protection.”

Article 25“(1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing

and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment,

sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.

(…)(2) Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or

out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.”

Article 26“(1) Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be

free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages.

Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and

professional education shall be made generally available and

higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of

merit.(…)

(3) Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.”

• Bibliography: http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/(1-10-2013)

• Music:– It’s more fun in Phillippines

(Official Song for the Department of Tourism campaign, "It's More Fun In The Philippines)

– The Bastard Faries – Ode to Prostitute

– -Bruce Cockburn – Call it Democracy