chameleon
04-02-2006, 11:37 AM
These are excerpts from this webpage..Although I copy-pasted without their permission, I cited their webpage for your information..There are relevant cases here mentioned and I hope that some of you can find some interesting information.
http://home.att.ne.jp/banana/cjff/homepage.htm
January 2005
The year 2004 ended with a threat from Japan’s Ministry of Justice ordering to stop issuing visa to Filipino entertainers coming to work in clubs and bars in Japan. As a reaction, CJFF together with the Filipino Migrants Center in Nagoya and chapters of the Kalipunan ng mga Filipinong Nagkakaisa (KAFIN) hosted a parliamentarian inquiry in the person of Congressman Crispin Beltran of the Philippine House of Representatives.
Public forum with Filipino community leaders last January 7, 2005 at the Philippine Embassy Hall (Tokyo) and last January 9, 2005 in Gender Equality Center in Naka-ku, Nagoya City discussed the pros and cons of banning the entry of Filipino entertainers in Japan. Also, a forum with club owners, promoters and entertainers was also held last January 9, 2005 in Nagoya City.
Sorry to say to the promoters who runs the hiring of Filipina entertainers that in all of the above forums we are supporting more the Japanese proposed amendments to the immigration law and contrary to the Philippine government position. We as witness to the sufferings of big number of Filipino entertainers here in Japan cannot ignore the fact that the current entertainers hired from the Philippine needs an overhaul and thus the Ministry of Justice proposal wins critical support.
Sex Trafficking as the First Case in 2005
Last January 5, 2005 Brenda and Luisa (not their real names) escaped from the club that they are working. A Filipino village mate who owns a club in Japan invited the two with the club owner managed to obtain the necessary documentation for 90 days tourist visa for her victims. Upon arrival in the club, the two met their other village mates who are already overstaying their visas and are complaining on their working condition. Two weeks is too long for the two newly arrived and on the night that they fled is the night that they have to remove all their clothes and under wears in front of the club’s customers. If they will not comply, something will happen to both of them or to their family members in the Philippines.
The security of the two, their family members and the caseworkers became an instant issue. Even the Immigration Bureau officer and the Philippine Consulate officials who handle the case expressed the need to address the security of all. Fortunately, the Filipino congressional representative, Rep Beltran, is around that the threat to the family members in the Philippines is in his jurisdictional authority (as member of the Overseas Employment Committee of the Philippine House of Representative).
Upon return to his office, Rep. Beltran called the family members of the two victims of sex trafficking to his office, the security matters was arranged, the club in Japan was raided, and security measure at Manila airport was put in place that facilitated the coming home of the two victims of sex trafficking. The two are back in their normal lives with family.
http://home.att.ne.jp/banana/cjff/homepage.htm
January 2005
The year 2004 ended with a threat from Japan’s Ministry of Justice ordering to stop issuing visa to Filipino entertainers coming to work in clubs and bars in Japan. As a reaction, CJFF together with the Filipino Migrants Center in Nagoya and chapters of the Kalipunan ng mga Filipinong Nagkakaisa (KAFIN) hosted a parliamentarian inquiry in the person of Congressman Crispin Beltran of the Philippine House of Representatives.
Public forum with Filipino community leaders last January 7, 2005 at the Philippine Embassy Hall (Tokyo) and last January 9, 2005 in Gender Equality Center in Naka-ku, Nagoya City discussed the pros and cons of banning the entry of Filipino entertainers in Japan. Also, a forum with club owners, promoters and entertainers was also held last January 9, 2005 in Nagoya City.
Sorry to say to the promoters who runs the hiring of Filipina entertainers that in all of the above forums we are supporting more the Japanese proposed amendments to the immigration law and contrary to the Philippine government position. We as witness to the sufferings of big number of Filipino entertainers here in Japan cannot ignore the fact that the current entertainers hired from the Philippine needs an overhaul and thus the Ministry of Justice proposal wins critical support.
Sex Trafficking as the First Case in 2005
Last January 5, 2005 Brenda and Luisa (not their real names) escaped from the club that they are working. A Filipino village mate who owns a club in Japan invited the two with the club owner managed to obtain the necessary documentation for 90 days tourist visa for her victims. Upon arrival in the club, the two met their other village mates who are already overstaying their visas and are complaining on their working condition. Two weeks is too long for the two newly arrived and on the night that they fled is the night that they have to remove all their clothes and under wears in front of the club’s customers. If they will not comply, something will happen to both of them or to their family members in the Philippines.
The security of the two, their family members and the caseworkers became an instant issue. Even the Immigration Bureau officer and the Philippine Consulate officials who handle the case expressed the need to address the security of all. Fortunately, the Filipino congressional representative, Rep Beltran, is around that the threat to the family members in the Philippines is in his jurisdictional authority (as member of the Overseas Employment Committee of the Philippine House of Representative).
Upon return to his office, Rep. Beltran called the family members of the two victims of sex trafficking to his office, the security matters was arranged, the club in Japan was raided, and security measure at Manila airport was put in place that facilitated the coming home of the two victims of sex trafficking. The two are back in their normal lives with family.