R.

A 9208

This Act shall be known as

the “Anti-Trafficking in Persons
Act of 2003”.
 Trafficking in Persons
– refers to the recruitment, transportation, transfer or 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.
 CHILD
– refers to a person below eighteen (18) years of age or one
who is over eighteen (18) but is unable to fully take care of or
protect himself/herself from abuse, neglect, cruelty,
exploitation, or discrimination because of a physical or
mental disability or condition.
PROSTITUTION
– refers to any act, transaction, scheme or design involving
the use of a person by another, for sexual intercourse or
lascivious conduct in exchange for money, profit or any
other consideration.
 FORCED LABOR AND SLAVERY
– refer to the extraction of work or services from any person by
means of enticement, violence, intimidation or threat, use of force or
coercion, including deprivation of freedom, abuse of authority or
moral ascendancy, debt-bondage or deception.
SEX TOURISM
– refers to a program organized by travel and tourism-related
establishments and individuals which consists of tourism packages
or activities, utilizing and offering escort and sexual services as
enticement for tourists. This includes sexual services and practices
offered during rest and recreation periods for members of the
military.
 SEXUAL EXPLOITATION
– refers to participation by a person in prostitution or the production
of pornographic materials as a result of being subjected to a threat,
deception, coercion, abduction, force, abuse of authority, debt
bondage, fraud or through abuse of a victim’s vulnerability.
DEBT BONDAGE
– refers to the pledging by the debtor of his/her personal services or
labor or those of a person under his/her control as security or payment
for a debt, when the length and nature of services is not clearly defined
or when the value of the services as reasonably assessed is not applied
toward the liquidation of the debt.
 Pornography
– refers to any representation, through publication,
exhibition, cinematography, indecent shows, information
technology, or by whatever means, of a person engaged in
real or simulated explicit sexual activities or any
representation of the sexual parts of a person for primarily
sexual purposes.
 Republic Act No. 9255
February 24 2004
AN ACT ALLOWING ILLEGITIMATE
CHILDREN TO USE THE SURNAME OF
THEIR FATHER, AMENDING FOR THE
PURPOSE ARTICLE 176 OF EXECUTIVE
ORDER NO. 209, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS
THE "FAMILY CODE OF THE
PHILIPPINES"
SECTION 1. Article 176 of Executive Order No. 209, otherwise known
as the Family Code of the Philippines, is hereby amended to read as
follows:
"Article 176. Illegitimate children shall use the surname and shall be
under the parental authority of their mother, and shall be entitled to
support in conformity with this Code. However, illegitimate children
may use the surname of their father if their filiation has been expressly
recognized by the father through the record of birth appearing in the civil
register, or when an admission in a public document or private
handwritten instrument is made by the father. Provided, the father has the
right to institute an action before the regular courts to prove non-filiation
during his lifetime. The legitime of each illegitimate child shall consist of
one-half of the legitime of a legitimate child."
 Republic Act No. 9262
March 08, 2004

This Act shall be known as the "Anti-

Violence Against Women and Their
Children Act of 2004".
(e) "Dating relationship" refers to a situation wherein the parties
live as husband and wife without the benefit of marriage or are
romantically involved over time and on a continuing basis during
the course of the relationship. A casual acquaintance or ordinary
socialization between two individuals in a business or social
context is not a dating relationship.
(f) "Sexual relations" refers to a single sexual act which may or
may not result in the bearing of a common child.
(g) "Safe place or shelter" refers to any home or institution
maintained or managed by the Department of Social Welfare and
Development (DSWD) or by any other agency or voluntary
organization accredited by the DSWD for the purposes of this Act
or any other suitable place the resident of which is willing
temporarily to receive the victim.
REASON FOR ITS BIRTH
Protection of children and youth physically, morally, spiritually,
intellectually, and socially against any prejudicial act that may
endanger them. Specially in terms of legal proceedings