MOISES PADILLA ATTENDS SYMPOSIUM ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING
The Columban Ministry on Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation, Negros Nine Human Development Foundation, Inc. (NNHDF, INC), together with the Municipal Social Welfare and Development Office (MSWDO), Moises Padilla, Negros Occidental launched a symposium on Republic Act 9208 otherwise known as Trafficking in Persons Act of 2003 last August 24, 2010, at the New Farmers Training Center, Moises Padilla.
The focal point of the forum was the “Hidden World of Trafficking, Trends and Situationer” which discussed the exploitative nature and the worsening situation of trafficking.
Vice-Mayor Cepriano Remo, Jr. and SB Member Jose Edmund Odencio represented the local government of Moises Padilla.
One hundred twenty participants from the Philippine National Police, Department of Interior and Local Government, Department of Health, Municipal Social Development Office, Punong Barangay, Philippine Army, Pastoral Council of San Isidro Labrador, Barangay Day Care Workers and representatives from the Department of Education attended the said symposium.
During the forum, SB Member Jose Edmund Odencio made a commitment to pass an ordinance creating a Municipal Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking (MIACAT) to strengthen the campaing against human trafficking.
Atty. Arnel Sigue, the invited speaker, stressed the salient point of Anti Trafficking Law and the strategy employs by the traffickers to lure innocent victims. He further urged the local officials to create an inter-agency council against trafficking and stressed the importance of it.
On the other hand, Vice Mayor Cepriano Remo , challenged the participants to be more vigilant and take part in this endeavour. He also vowed to safeguard the interest of women and children against the opportunist traffickers who take advantage of the vulnerability of the victims.
Jerome E. Seballos
Program Coordinator
NNHDF, Inc.
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Exodus 84
by Columban Fr. Robert Burke
This is about the Long March, or Exodus '84, to allow it a scriptural description, three days of torrid sun and long kilometers from Kabankalan to Bacolod , a distance of about ninety-five kilometers, or approximately sixty miles. I was there. A long line of marchers (numbering at the start more than 1500) carrying streamers and placards moved over a hot asphalt road like a colony of ants, twisting into curves, seemingly endless.