human trafficking

A final goodbye for Nanay Fedelina Lugasan, who survived over 60 years of modern day slavery. After living the final two years of her life as a free woman, lugasan passed away at 83 years-old from...

SAN MATEO, CA — San Mateo County Judge Jeffery Finnigan has denied 42-year-old Joshua Gamos’ request for his bail to be reduced from $3 million to $300,000. Joshua and his other family members — 67-year old...

LOS ANGELES — It was a reunion forty years in the making but cut short by the pandemic. Nanay Fedelina’s family — which includes her sister Eunila, Eunila’s daughter Luz and granddaughter Tiny — finally reconnected...

Through a united community effort, Nanay Fedelina — the 87-year-old woman who survived 65 years of abuse and confinement while serving four generations of a Filipino family in two countries — is finally reunited with her...

LOS ANGELES — They’re calling it both a miracle and happy ending. After six decades of enduring human trafficking and modern-day slavery in the hands of her US-based Filipino employers, and being kept from seeing her...

We have followed the case of Nanay Fedelina, a Filipina survivor of human trafficking and modern-day slavery and was even the subject of the BA Original film Kept: Six Decades of Servitude. And while it may...

NEW YORK — A Filipino labor trafficking survivor shares how his coming-out story has helped encourage other victims to come out and fight for their rights as immigrant workers abused by their employer. Labor trafficking survivor...

LOS ANGELES — Led by Commission on Filipinos Overseas Secretary Francisco “Nick” Acosta, Philippine government officials met with Filipino workers in Los Angeles recently. Among the community groups they had a dialogue with, the Pilipino Workers Center...

LOS ANGELES — In the past few years, the LA-based Pilipino Workers Center has been taking the lead when it comes to human and labor trafficking. The organization recently held a two-day conference called Towards Freedom,...

NEW YORK — More than 200 Filipino nurses won a human trafficking case against their employer, SentosaCare nursing home group in New York. Leading the class action suit is a nurse named Rose Ann Paguirigan —...