Questions for Abuse of Human Rights with Answers:

HUMAN TRAFFICKING
1. Do you think people who are involved in human trafficking are also victims of violation of their
human rights?
Answer:
 I agree that people who are involved in human trafficking are also victims of violation of their
human rights because it says and I quote in the Expanded Anti-Trafficking of Persons Act of
2012 in the Republic Act No. 10364, Section 2 that “It is hereby declared that the State values
the dignity of every human person and guarantees the respect of individual rights. In pursuit of
this policy, the State shall give highest priority to the enactment of measures and development
of programs that will promote human dignity, protect the people from any threat of violence
and exploitation, eliminate trafficking in persons, and mitigate pressures for involuntary
migration and servitude of persons, not only to support trafficked persons but more
importantly, to ensure their recovery, rehabilitation and reintegration into the mainstream of
society.”
 Human Trafficking is really a violation to the human rights of a person as it is the business of
stealing freedom for profit. In some cases, traffickers trick, defraud or physically force victims
into providing commercial sex. In others, victims are lied to, assaulted, threatened or
manipulated into working under inhumane, illegal or otherwise unacceptable conditions.

Example of people who experienced a violation of their human rights because of human trafficking are:

 The Jian Feng “Michael” Li Case

After a two-year investigation that ended in fall 2010, the RCMP alleged that a Canadian man named
Jian Feng “Michael” Li sponsored up to nine women from Hong Kong into Canada. He allegedly exploited
them in residential brothels he was running in the B.C. Lower Mainland using online classifieds to
advertise their sexual services. Mr. Li was convicted and received a jail sentence.

 The Michael Ng Case

Between 2002 and 2004, a Vancouver man named Michael Ng convinced two Chinese women to
come to Canada by promising them waitressing jobs in his restaurant. Using the false travel documents
he provided, the women arrived safely in B.C., but were told by Ng that the restaurant had closed. He
then forced them to provide sexual services to clients in a massage parlour he owned on Kingsway
Street in Vancouver. He took most of their money, but it was only after Ng violently assaulted and
threatened to kill them that the women escaped and sought help from the Vancouver Police
Department. He was the first person charged in Canada with a human trafficking-specific offence under
the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. However, the judge did not convict him of this offence —
Ng was convicted of several other offences including human smuggling and several prostitution-related
offences under the Criminal Code of Canada.

 Philippines

During 2000, the Philippine National Police were able to act on 57 cases of irregularities on
departing passengers, and 19 cases of arriving passengers. The files and reports submitted for the last
two years (2000-2001), indicate that there were 22 cases of attempts to smuggle in foreign nationals or
use the Philippines as a transit point for other countries. Based on information from experts, more
frequently, Filipinos are trafficked and forced to work for the benefit of organised crime groups in Korea
and Japan. Other destination countries to which Filipinos are smuggled and trafficked are Hong Kong,
Singapore, Middle 4 East countries, Malaysia, Brunei, Kuwait, Italy, USA, Taiwan, Jordan and countries
within Europe. Experts did not, however, distinguish in this list between destination countries for
trafficked persons, and those for smuggled persons.

EMPLOYMENT
2. Do you think people who are overworked without pay experiences a violation of their human
rights?
Answer:
 I agree that people who are overworked without pay experiences a violation of their human
rights because it states in the The Labor Code of the Philipppines Presidential Decree No. 442,
Book Three: Conditions of Employment, Article No. 87 it says,“Overtime work. - Work may be
performed beyond eight (8) hours a day provided that the employee is paid for the overtime
work, an additional compensation equivalent to his regular wage plus at least twenty-five
percent (25%) thereof. Work performed beyond eight hours on a holiday or rest day shall be
paid an additional compensation equivalent to the rate of the first eight hours on a holiday or
rest day plus at least thirty percent (30%) thereof.”
 Thus, overtime without additional income of their wage would be considered as an abuse of
their human rights.
 In Article No. 83 the it states that the normal hours of work Normal hours of work. - The normal
hours of work of any employee shall not exceed eight (8) hours a day. Health personnel in cities
and municipalities with a population of at least one million (1,000,000) or in hospitals and clinics
with a bed capacity of at least one hundred (100) shall hold regular office hours for eight (8)
hours a day, for five (5) days a week, exclusive of time for meals, except where the exigencies of
the service require that such personnel work for six (6) days or forty-eight (48) hours, in which
case, they shall be entitled to an additional compensation of at least thirty percent (30%) of
their regular wage for work on the sixth day. For purposes of this Article, "health
personnel" shall include resident physicians, nurses, nutritionists, dietitians, pharmacists, social
workers, laboratory technicians, paramedical technicians, psychologists, midwives, attendants
and all other hospital or clinic personnel.
 In Article No. 90 it states that the Computation of additional compensation. - For purposes of
computing overtime and other additional remuneration as required by this Chapter, the "regular
wage"of an employee shall include the cash wage only, without deduction on account of
facilities provided by the employer.

TREATMENT IN HOSPITALS
3. Do you think patients who are unable to pay their hospital bills must be deprived of their right
to be treated fairly and with compassion?
Answer:
 I agree that patients who are unable to pay their hospital bills must be deprived of their right to
be treated fairly and with compassion because in the Batas Pambansa Bilang 702, Republic Act.
No. 8344, Section 1 it says that “In emergency or serious cases, it shall be unlawful for any
proprietor, president, director, manager or any other officer, and/or medical practitioner or
 employee of a hospital or medical clinic to request, solicit, demand or accept any deposit or any
other form of advance payment as a prerequisite for confinement or medical treatment of a
patient in such hospital or medical clinic or to refuse to administer medical treatment and
support as dictated by good practice of medicine to prevent death or permanent disability:
Provided, That by reason of inadequacy of the medical capabilities of the hospital or medical
clinic, the attending physician may transfer the patient to a facility where the appropriate care
can be given, after the patient or his next of kin consents to said transfer and after the receiving
hospital or medical clinic agrees to the transfer: Provided, however, That when the patient is
unconscious, incapable of giving consent and/or unaccompanied, the physician can transfer the
patient even without his consent: Provided, further, That such transfer shall be done only after
necessary emergency treatment and support have been administered to stabilize the patient
and after it has been established that such transfer entails less risks than the patient's continued
confinement: Provided, furthermore, That no hospital or clinic, after being informed of the
medical indications for such transfer, shall refuse to receive the patient nor demand from the
patient or his next of kin any deposit or advance payment: Provided, finally, That strict
compliance with the foregoing procedure on transfer shall not be construed as a refusal made
punishable by this Act."

Example of people who was violated of their right for treatment:

 In 1986 I was in a motorcycle accident. I tore up my face on the road. I was taken to the ER and
treated like crap because I had no insurance. They cauterized my facial wounds rather than
stitch me up, and then dumped me on the sidewalk with amnesia. I still have distinct black scars;
people think they’re tattoos. I went into collections and it took years to pay that one off. Six
weeks ago, I fell while trimming a tree. When the ER found the insurance card in my wallet, I
was treated like gold.” ~ James Cummings

EXTRADITION BILL

4. Do you think the innocent Chinese people in Hongkong were violated of their human rights
when the police agreed for the Pro-China people to beat them up?

LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY
5. Should the LGBTQ+ community be treated fairly and equally?

SLAVERY
6. Do you think slavery in some other parts of the world is considered an abuse of their human
rights?

TORTURE
7. Do you think torture in some other parts of the world is considered an abuse of their human
rights?

FREEDOM OF EXRESSION AND SPEECH

8. Do you think the journalist who writes articles or specifically the freedom of the press who
experiences a restriction of their expression is considered an abuse of their human rights?
HIV AND AIDS
9. Do you think the people who has HIV and Aids experiences an abuse of their human rights as
there are cases that the people who has this kind of disease is not treated equally?