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everse flow– the out-migration of under-agedyouth for the purpose of prostitution abroad.State policies and programmes and the internationaldemand for cheap labour abroadhave also facilitated the massive migrationof women, even young girls, for work overseas.Government policies favour the exportof entertainers and domestic helpers that putthe lives of children and young women atrisk. It is the combination of a legitimisingsystem that involves government and privatesector recruiters and marketers, the localpressure of unemployment, the growing demandfor bought sex and the operations of internationalcrime syndicates, that have ledto the worldwide explosion of the traffic inwomen and children.Although more stringent laws against traffickinghave been passed in 2003, notablythe already discussed Republic Act No.9208, implementation of these laws havebeen weak so far. No effective prosecution oftraffickers takes place due to corruption,weak judiciary and absence of enforcementof legislation. 18OMCT urges the Republic of thePhilippines to aggressively implement the legislationand to prosecute involved officials.4.1.3. Child Pornography and theInternetUnlike actual physical molestation, the verynature of pornography multiplies the abusemany times over. Pictures of the children beingabused are shown or shared with others.These photos are also easily replicated - theyget into sex publications, manuals, orbrochures. They are reproduced by thousandsor tens of thousands, often in differentlanguages and distributed in numerous countries.Child pornography is becoming increasinglylinked to the Internet, whichprovides new means to produce and distributeimages secretly and globally. The picturesare usually accompanied with articlesthat give details about the child or children,about the Philippines, and how prostitutionis run in the country. Filipinos are sold assweet, warm, and hospitable. Behind thephotos is physical violence that accompaniesthe making of child pornography.Since 1990 the Philippine authorities havebeen active in investigating and deportingpornographers such as Andrew Mark Harvey,a US National, for sexual abuse of children,and Hisayaoshi Naoyishi Maruyama, aJapanese national, for multiple abuses of1918 - http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2004/33191.htm#thephilippines