DAVAO CITY, May 14, (PIA) – The Global Impact Philippines Foundation is inviting the public to watch a documentary film on global sex trade and human trafficking with free admission on May 19, 6:30 pm at Cinema 6 of Victoria Mall, this city.
The 2 ½-minute film entitled “Nefarious: Merchant of Souls” is a hard-hitting documentary that exposes the disturbing trends of modern day sex slavery and in-depth look at the human trafficking industry, stated Amy Muranko-Gahan, founding director of Global Impact.
While the documentary shows different faces of human trafficking and harrowing stories of victims and survivors, it also features expert analysis from international humanitarian leaders and triumphant testimonies of survivors, she said.
Muranko-Gahan said the showing of “Nefarious,” which means extremely evil, is limited to viewers aged 16 years old and above, due to the sensitive and disturbing content.
Guesting at Club 888 Forum at Marco Polo Hotel on Wednesday, the Global Impact director bared that around 27 million people worldwide currently live in different kinds of exploitations.
She said the Philippines is known to be among the top trafficked, source and destination countries, adding that in Mindanao hundreds of cases on trafficking were reported.
“There will be more coming on the surface. It is alarming not only in the sex industry but also in the labor industry,” she stated.
Global Impact’s free showing of the documentary is in partnership with the Catalyst Leadership Academy and Inter-Agency Council on Trafficking in Person (IACAT XI) Network, as part of the advocacy to curb human trafficking activities.
Muranko-Gahan said other advocacy and awareness activities have also been lined up for this month, which includes the flashmob, a dance and drama presentation against human trafficking, to be performed on May 15 at SM Lanang, SM Ecoland and Matina Town Square.
The flashmob will be participated in by around 80 performers including the staff of Global Impact and students from the Catalyst Leadership Academy which is currently running a five- week leadership training in Davao City catering to the youth coming from the city, other areas in Mindanao and other countries.
Another event is the Impact Concert with stage production, live band, and fun games and prized slated on May 23, 7:00 pm at MTS.
At the concert, a 20-minute documentary on trafficking in persons in Mindanao will also be featured.
Muranko-Gahan said the foundation has also partnered with the Philippine National Police in holding a three-day Children’s Day camp at Camp Catitipan, Davao City where participants are provided with trafficking prevention knowledge and tools.
In Global Impact’s campaign material, human trafficking is defined as an act of recruiting, transporting, transferring, harboring or receiving a person through the use of force, coercion or other means, for the purpose of exploiting them.
The kinds of trafficking include prostitution and sex industry, forced domestic servitude, mistreated labor workers, forced to be a beggar or thief, forced to sell drugs or drug running and organ trafficking.
The US Department of State says that 80% of all trafficking victims are women and children who are forced into the commercial sex trade. (PIA-11/Carina L. Cayon)
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