Decent work for all newsletter: Hope for trafficked women

Return and reintegration are especially hard for victims of trafficking who have experienced serious abuse. Through a three-year project on economic and social empowerment funded by the UN Trust Fund for Human Security (HSF), the ILO, with partners, developed institutional capacity with systems, tools and models for reintegration and protection services.

CONTENTS:

Hope for trafficked women
By Ms Rory Ilumin, Kanlungan

The business that cares
By Ms Dang Buenaventura, Employers Confederation of the Philippines and Development Action for Women Network

Moving on from a shattered dream
By Ms Coleen Auxemery, ILO

DAWN’s multi-purpose cooperative
By Development Action for Women Network

Swimming against the tide
By Ms Andrea Luisa Anolin, Batis Center for Women

Coaching returned victims of trafficking
By Ms Coleen Auxemery, ILO

Innovative tools to improve delivery of services
By Ms April Ma-Anne Mendoza, Department of Social Welfare and Development

OWWA welfare officers trained
By Ms Ching Burgos, Overseas Workers Welfare Administration

Philippine government helping victims of trafficking

Testimony of hope
By Ms Lara Javier, Batis AWARE

Must reads
- Meeting the challenge – proven practices for human trafficking prevention in the greater Mekong sub-region
- The Mekong challenge - an honest broker improving cross-border recruitment practices for the benefit of government, workers and employers