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DMW Vows to Combat Trafficking of Pinoys

March 09, 2025

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The Philippine Star

The Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) is bent on uncovering the people behind the illegal recruitment of Filipinos who were promised with decent jobs abroad, but ended in POGO-like hubs in Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia.

- — Rhodina Villanueva

Bernard Olalia, DMW undersecretary for licensing and adjudication services, said a system to combat the trafficking of Filipinos was set up recently.

The system included the deployment of a labor attaché to Thailand and a stronger cooperation with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking, he added.

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