Submission of Data Regarding Cases on Human Trafficking

April 18, 2007

OCA CIRCULAR NO. 36-07

 

The Office of the Court Administrator is presently conducting a survey on the number of cases filed/pending in court involving violation of R.A. 9208, entitled "An Act to Institute Policies to Eliminate Trafficking in Persons Especially Women and Children, Establishing the Necessary Institutional Mechanisms for the Protection and Support of Trafficked Persons, Providing Penalties for its Violations, and for Other".

"Trafficking in Persons — refers to the recruitment, transportation, transfer or harboring, or receipt of persons with or without the victim's consent or knowledge, within or across national borders by means of threat or use of force, or other forms of coercion, abduction., fraud, deception, abuse of power or of position, taking advantage of the vulnerability of the person, or, the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person for the purpose of exploitation which includes at a minimum, the exploitation or the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labor or services, slavery, servitude or the removal or sale of organs.

The recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of a child for the purpose of exploitation shall also be considered as 'trafficking in persons' even if it does not involve any of the means set forth in the preceding paragraph."

In view of the foregoing, you are hereby directed to submit to the Office of the Court Administrator thru the Court Management Office, the data regarding violation of R.A. 9208 filed in your court from June 2003 to the present.,

Submission of compliance should be made within thirty (30) days from notice using the attached form.

For reference purposes copy of R.A. 9208 is attached.

For strict compliance.

April 18, 2007.

(SGD.) CHRISTOPHER O. LOCKCourt Administrator

INVENTORY OF CASES REGARDING CASES ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING

Court____________________________

Date_____________________________

Case	Date			Date Of
No.	No.	filed	Title Of The Case	Nature	Arraignment	Latest Status
______	________	_______	___________________	____________	______________	_______________
______	________	_______	___________________	____________	______________	_______________
______	________	_______	___________________	____________	______________	_______________
______	________	_______	___________________	____________	______________	_______________
______	________	_______	___________________	____________	______________	_______________
______	________	_______	___________________	____________	______________	_______________
Prepared by: ___________________
	Clerk-In-Charge
Verified By: ____________________
	Clerk Of Court
Noted by: ______________________
	Judge

Republic ActNo. 9208