ILOILO CITY (PIA) - - The Regional Council Against Trafficking and Child Pornography (RCAT-CP) in Western Visayas urged deeper involvement of the government and private sectors and everyone here in the fight to end human trafficking.

Xzyrabelle Servento of the Department of Social Welfare and Development 6, theLead Secretariat of the RCAT-CP, called on partners,  government and private sectors, and all Filipinos to be aware and get involved in efforts in raising awareness and putting a stop to human trafficking.

having experienced being forced to perform sexual acts online, or being blackmailed for sexual purposes, she said, adding that “hundreds of millions of child sexual abuse materials are also shared and traded on the interent.”

According to Servanto some of the red flags of human trafficking include the following: maintaining multiple social media accounts that have connections with foreigners that is inconsistent with travel history and in-person relationships; seeing minors within the vicinity of the house for no explainable reason, sometimes even at odd hours; unexplainable extra income generated quickly in a short period of time or continuous flow of income without reasonable employment; and multiple money transfers via money remittance services that is inconsistent with the person’s expected money transfer activity.

The public may report suspected human trafficking activities to  Actionline Against Human Trafficking (02) 1343 or to DSWD 6 through 330 7860 local 16007 or 09152003251. (JBG/laf/PIA6-Iloilo)