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Local Committees on Anti-Trafficking and Violence Against Women and their Children
The State values the dignity of every human person and guarantees full respect for human rights. Hence, The state shall undertake measures to protect the people from any form of violence and exploitation, and eliminate trafficking in persons (TIP) and violence against women and their children (VAWC).
Definition of Terms
Trafficking in Persons refers to the recruitment, obtaining, hiring, providing, offering, transportation, transfer, maintaining, 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.
Violence against Women and their Children (VAWC) refers to any act or a series of acts committed by any person against a woman who is his wife, former wife, or against a woman with whom the person has or had a sexual or dating relationship, or with whom he has a common child, or against her child whether legitimate or illegitimate, within or without the family abode, which result in or is likely to result in physical, sexual, psychological harm or suffering, or economic abuse including threats of such acts, battery, assault, coercion, harassment or arbitrary deprivation of liberty.
Functions of LCAT-VAWC in every province, city, municipality
Institute policies and programs to protect women and children who are victims of trafficking and violence.
Create and establish systems on surveillance, investigation, and rescue to ensure effective and efficient coordination.
Undertake information, education, and advocacy campaign against trafficking in persons and VAWC.
Monitor and oversee the implementation of TIP, VAWC and other related laws for the protection of women and children, and national plans of action of the Inter-Agency Council on Anti-Trafficking (IACAT) and Inter-Agency Council on Violence Against Women and their Children (IACVAWC)