US anti-trafficking report: Philippines keeps Tier 1 status

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken presents an award to Samson Inocencio Jr., vice president of the International Justice Mission Philippines, as one of this year’s Trafficking in Persons Report Heroes, at an event launching the US State Department’s 2024 TIP Report yesterday in Washington.MANILA, Philippines — For the ninth straight year, the Philippines remained on Tier 1, the top ranking in the US Department of State’s latest annual Trafficking in Persons Report.

These efforts include investigating and prosecuting more trafficking suspects, finalizing and adopting the Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking standard operating procedures on the identification and monitoring of trafficking-related corruption cases, promulgating implementing rules and regulations for its amended anti-trafficking law and sentencing nearly all traffickers to significant prison terms.

The report mentioned allegations of official complicity in a large online scam operation resulting in the exploitation of more than 730 potential labor trafficking victims under the guise of Philippine offshore gaming operations . The government discharged and began investigating a municipal police chief and 26 other officers for “neglect of duty.”

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