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The Miriam College- Women and Gender Institute (WAGI) has initiated the Young Women Leadership Project entitled “Why Get Involved? Why Me?, which was funded by the Royal Netherlands Embassy through its program that aims to promote gender equality and development. It is in an undertaking for young women leaders that is in line with the school’s mission to educate women for leadership and service. The project seeks to raise awareness of young women on gender issues, human rights, and good governance, and to develop a core of young women leaders for active citizenship that will contribute to strengthening of democratic institutions of the country. It recognizes the urgent need to develop a successor generation of young feminists and young women leaders who will be active and proactive in engaging government and other social actors and institutions in the advocacy of gender equality, human rights and good governance. Read more...
A Lawyer’s Journey Towards CEDAW
Is Article 130 of the Labor Law of the Philippines which disallows women to work at night for security reasons discriminatory?
This was the issue posed before a group of five lawyers during the workshop session at the Training on Gender Sensitivity and CEDAW conducted on October 6 and 7, 2006. The group was presented with the complaint filed before the Supreme Court by a female secretary working in a factory who challenged Article 130 on the ground that it violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution. Read more...
CEDAW and Lived Realities of Moro Women
An empowered woman, a Muslim, a lawyer best describe Raissa Jajurie, the Coordinator of the Mindanao branch of the Sentro ng Alternatibong Lingap Panligal (SALIGAN) or Center for Alternative Legal Services. She is small, standing five feet. She does not wear tudung (the head scarf worn by traditional Muslim women). She is soft spoken and her usual attire consists of t-shirt, jeans and sneakers.
As a developmental lawyer, she has helped women claim their rights under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). While still based in Manila, she used to travel eight hours by land to Aurora Province across the Sierra Madre Mountains for a rape case and a case of a battered woman seeking to dissolve her marriage. Read more...
Shadow Report Sheds Light on Women’s Issues
Many people are still in the dark about the reality of violence that Filipino women face everyday.
All over the country, women continue to suffer discrimination and unequal relations. In rural areas, women dislocated from their homes end up in low-paying jobs or in harsh working conditions. The desire of Filipino women to migrate to other countries to find better jobs has led them to fall prey to trafficking and prostitution. Newspapers are rife with accounts of overseas Filipino women workers coming home physically and emotionally abused. Read more...
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CEDAW in Action in Philippines
