WHY CAMPAIGN AGAINST TRAFFICKING OF FILIPINO WOMEN AND CHILDREN

• An estimated 20 million people, 90% women and children, are in the global sex trade
  
  
  
• The Philippines is the world's top exporter of women. In 2005, 750,000 women were exported to over 203 countries. 30% of the women being exported from the Philippines end up in the sex trade.
  
  
  
• While both Filipinos and Filipinas work overseas, the women stay abroad longer as their job contracts are more open-ended and their work continuing.
  
  
  
• Roughly 60% of Filipinas who leave for overseas become domestic labor--cleaning, cooking, taking care of the children of families who can afford servants.
  
  
  
• The second largest most probable work for Filipinas who go abroad is in the sex trade.
  
  
  
• More than half-million Filipina adults and children are in the sex trade in the Philippines, catering to tourists, American GIs on R & R, and local males.
  
  
  
• One-hundred fifty-thousand (150,000) Filipinas work in brothel houses, strip joints, bars and nightclubs in Japan, under the control of the Yakuza. When this practice started, the women were sold at $2,400-$8,000--an amount the women have to pay back to the owner.
  
  
  
• The Philippine government does little or nothing about these facts because part of the annual $8 billion remitted to the archipelago comes from prostituting these women.
  
  
  

1. Why Campaign Against Trafficking of Filipino Women and Children

2. Trafficking in the United States

3. Response of the Organized Women's Movement in the US

4. GABNet's Position

5. The Components of the Purple Rose Campaign

6. How to Join the Purple Rose Campaign