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MANILA - The Austrian Embassy in Manila announced on Tuesday a year-long anti-trafficking campaign to show its solidarity with the Philippines in combatting sexual exploitation. The initiative called ''We Stand As One: Campaign Against Human Trafficking'' will bring together the embassy and non-government organization Voice of the Free (VoF) to promote women's and children's rights and combat sexual exploitation in all its forms. The Embassy said this also follows the United Nations 2021 theme for World Day Against Trafficking in Persons: ''Victims' Voices Lead the Way''. "Covid-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) and its socio-economic impact have exacerbated the existing stark inequalities of children, young girls, and women in many parts of the world and amplified their risk to trafficking, sexual exploitation, and abuse, especially online and as they are exposed to the new vulnerabilities of home-based learning," said Austrian Ambassa ....

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