The Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs has issued a statement warning against human trafficking rings operating in Dubai and illegally taking Filipino workers to Iraq, South China Morning Post reports. Filipino victims are trafficked through Erbil in the Kurdistan region of Iraq and then smuggled to Baghdad or Basra, the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs said Thursday, as quoted by GMA News. The victims enter Dubai using tourist visas and are then made to work without pay supposedly as part of their “training.” An estimated 10 million Filipinos reside or work abroad. A significant number of these migrant workers are subjected to sex and labor trafficking, predominantly via debt bondage, according to a report by the US State Department.