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Against Trafficking of Filipino Women and Children
GABNET'S POSITION
So long as
there are gender inequities in work, education and social
opportunities, "choice" does not even enter the
equation regarding the sex trade.
So long as
powerful nations oppress poor nations, there is no such
thing as "choice."
Sex for sale
is not a component of the Filipino world view. It is so
alien to the native philosophy that no term exists in the
150 Philippine languages for prostitution or prostitute.
The sex trade
is the nodal point where class, race and gender oppression
come togheter, to create the worst possible exploitation.
Its large scale use of Filipinas comes from an aberrant
cultural development, artificially induced by global forces,
which compel the transfer of the family's economic survival
from a traditionally male responsibility. This transfer
impacts not only women but men as well, infantilizing them
by making them dependent. This, in turn, exacerbates gender
tension.
Every man
and woman has a responsibility and an obligation to oppose
and destroy the structures which create labor export, the
sex trade and the mail-order bride business.
as
of 13 February 2007
832 (83
women) activists,
community organizers, church leaders, journalists... killed in
the Philippines under de facto president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
(since 2001)
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