DE LIMA ASKS US ENVOY TO EXPLAIN 'SEX TOURISM' STATS
Thursday, 06 October 2011 00:21 | |
by Ina Reformina, ABS-CBN News Justice Secretary Leila De Lima has formally asked United States Ambassador to thePhilippines Harry Thomas, Jr. to provide the basis for saying that 40% or 4 of every 10 male foreigners who come to the Philippines come for "sex tourism."Thomas was quoted in media reports to have issued the statement during his speech at a recent roundtable discussion on Combating Human Trafficking in the Philippines with the Philippine Judicial Academy, Court of Appeals(CA), and the US Department of Justice Criminal Division. |