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Reaching Out Beyond Closed Doors: A Primer on Child Domestic Labor in the Philippines, 2004
Ma. Cecilia Flores Oebanda; Roland Pacis; Jerome Alcantara
Visayan Forum Foundation, Inc.
E-mail: information@visayanforum.org

This publication looks into child domestic work as a distinct issue of child labor. Considered as modern-day slaves, they work in private households under exploitative conditions and have difficult access to education. Mostly girls as young as eight years old, they are migrants and are easy victims to trafficking. The Philippine government considers child domestic labor as among the worst forms of child labor. Updating laws and enhancing outreach programs will truly make them visible to national policies.



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