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Cecilia Flores-Oebanda has spent her life fighting - as a child for some education, as a teen rebel against a dictator, and for more than 20 years against human traffickers.
She has become the face of the Philippines anti-trafficking movement - a woman who has the ear of presidents, royalty and philanthropists around the globe.
Along the way she persuaded the biggest name in the Philippines - boxing legend Manny Pacquiao - to join her fight.
After two years of reporting in the Philippines – from going on police raids in Manila to going undercover in search of human trafficking in remote provinces - CNN can now tell their story.
Rescued girls describe how they were recruited by traffickers, the ordeals they endured - sometimes by men a computer click and half-a-world away - and how Oebanda saved them.
And we go undercover in Manila's bars where girls are available for tourists.
Now Oebanda is fighting a battle that could truly ruin her reputation and the organization she created - fraud allegations made by Philippine investigators.
Thank you CNN. Children from the Philippines are being tortured. This has to stop. The illegal slave trade is a $32 billion industry that is fighting back against the heroes who try to save these innocent children. Thank you Visayan Forum. For more go to http://www.visayanforum.org
It good to do that
Innocent children must and must be saved no one on earth need to accept any single child to be misused in any way. Children are our future and will take care of we.
I mr Endesia mwanzia from Kenya i have been training young kenyans to work as masonary, capenters, painters for 25 years and thats is how i help our young generation. Every year i train 5 people. I hope one day i will get asponser to do more.
Great cause, but when will theU.S. learn you can't give money without extremely tight controls. This is an old story of a great cause that was on all accounts doing great things. However as soon as USAID and others started throwing money at the cause without tight controls, it was doomed. I hope I'm proved wrong, but after 25 years living in Asia history is on my side.
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This problem might be fixed through real democracy,that means direct democracy, it means people voting their own laws.
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This problem is@gett wast let de Eyptsian Government should find solution about dis situation
Great article. I am dealing with some of these issues as well..
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