VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
• Exist on global scale, and affects millions of women on a daily basis. Statistics
on VAW show the reach of this gender-based epidemic.
• Globally, one in three women has experienced some form of VAW in her life. Of
these women, one in five will have experienced attempted or actual rape in her
lifetime. Furthermore, half of these are made up of girls below the age of
sixteen worldwide. Up to 30% of women’s first sexual encounter is forced or
non-consensual.
• Meanwhile, culture-specific violence such as bride burning, child brides or
female genital mutilation is still practiced despite its violation of a person’s
basic human rights.
WOMEN AND ARMED CONFLICT
• ARMED CONFLICT is seen as a critical area of concern in terms of women's
participation in peace panels and peacekeeping, as well as in terms of
victimization during conflict around the globe.
• The UN women Report states that only seven out of ten peace agreements had
special provisions for gender in 2015.
• Women in communities occupied by armed forces are prone to harassment or
are made to enter domestic servitude.
• Women’s mobility is also affected, and their access to employment is hampered
due to displacement. Others who hope to find job outside of their camps
become victims of forced prostitution and human trafficking.
WOMEN IN POWER AND POLITICS
• The Philippines made to the top 10 countries in the World Economic Forum
Global Gender Gap Index for 2015.
• Despite the Philippines’ getting high marks for women’s political involvement,
women in power still make up less than half of those elected.
• Some issues that hamper women’s participation in the elections involves
sex-role stereotypes and gendered assumption.
MAGNA CARTA OF WOMEN
• The Magna Carta of Women (MCW) is a comprehensive women’s human rights law that seeks to
eliminate discrimination through the recognition, protection, fulfillment, and promotion of the
rights of Filipino women, especially those belonging in the marginalized sectors of the society. It
conveys a framework of rights for women based directly on international law.
• The MCW establishes the Philippine government’s pledge of commitment to the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women’s (CEDAW) Committee in its 36th Session
in 2006 and to the UN Human Rights Council on its first Universal Periodic Review in 2009. It is
the local translation of the provisions of the CEDAW, particularly in defining gender
discrimination, state obligations, substantive equality, and temporary special measures. It also
recognizes human rights guaranteed by the International Covenant on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights (ICESCR).
MAGNA CARTA OF WOMEN
Salient features of the law include:
• Increasing the number of women in third level positions in government to achieve a fifty-fifty (50-50) gender
balance within the next five years while the composition of women in all levels of development planning and
program implementation will be at least 40 percent;
• Leave benefits of two (2) months with full pay based on gross monthly compensation for women employees who
undergo surgery caused by gynecological disorders, provided that they have rendered continuous aggregate
employment service of at least six (6) months for the last twelve (12) months;
• Non-discrimination in employment in the field of military, police and other similar services that include according
the same promotional privileges and opportunities as their men counterpart, including pay increases, additional
benefits, and awards, based on competency and quality of performance.
• Provision for equal access and elimination of discrimination in education, scholarships, and training. Thus,
“expulsion, non-readmission, prohibiting enrollment, and other related discrimination of women students and
faculty due to pregnancy out of marriage shall be outlawed.
• Non-discriminatory and non-derogatory portrayal of women in media and film to raise the consciousness of the
general public in recognizing the dignity of women and the role and contribution of women in family, community,
and the society through the strategic use of mass media;
• Equal status given to men and women on the titling of the land and issuance of stewardship contracts and patents.
MAGNA CARTA OF WOMEN
• In addition to guaranteeing substantive rights, the MCW establishes the responsibility of the government
to take actions in order to end discrimination against women. It provides that the Philippines government
must “ensure the substantive equality of men and women” and mandates the State to take steps to
review, amend or repeal existing laws that are discriminatory towards women.
• The Government, in its entirety, shall fulfill these duties through the development and implementation of
laws, policies, regulatory instruments, administrative guidelines, and other appropriate measures. It shall
also establish mechanisms to promote the coherent and integrated implementation of the MCW and other
related laws and policies to effectively stop discrimination against Filipino women.
• The MCW mandates all government offices, including government-owned and controlled corporations and
local government units to adopt gender mainstreaming as a strategy for implementing the law and
attaining its objectives. It also mandates (a) planning, budgeting, monitoring and evaluation for gender
and development, (b) the creation and/or strengthening of gender and development focal points, and (c)
the generation and maintenance of gender statistics and sex-disaggregated databases to aid in planning,
programming and policy formulation.
- https://pcw.gov.ph/republic-act-9710-magna-carta-of-women/
DISCRIMINATION AGAINST THE
GIRL-CHILD
• The BPfA sees the girl-child as an important sector that faces numerous forms of injustice. Female
children are particularly vulnerable due to their double oppression.
• In the Philippines, child is definedas any person below the age of 18.
• Because culture value boys over girls, girl-children may fall victims of the following:
• 1. female infanticide and selective abortion
• 2. Child Marriage
• 3. teenage Pregnancy
• 4. Child Trafficking
• 5. Female Circumcision
DISCRIMINATION AGAINST THE
GIRL-CHILD
• The convention on the Rights of the Child is the summary of rights that seek to protect the basic
human rights of children and ensure their holistic development.
• The local adaptation of this convention is Republic Act No. 7610 or Special Protection of Children
against Children Abuse, Exploitation and Discrimination Act.
WOMEN AND THE ENVIRONMENT
• Talk about the environment have remained mostly gender-neutral before BPfA. However, “women
and environment” has been named as a critical area of concern due to the disproportional impact
of environment issues on women.
• Women are often excluded from land titles and ownership of other natural resources.
WOMEN IN THE INDIGENOUS
COMMUNITIES
• According to the United nation Development Programme in 2013, 14 to 17 million indigenous
peoples (Ips) in the Philippines belong to 110 ethno-linguistics groups.
• Women in the Indigenous communities face issues regarding land ownership.
• In relation to the reproductive rights of women in indigenous communities, the Departmrnt of
Health discourages home births, dubbed as the “ no home birthing policy” which affects theb
traditional birthing practice of most indigenous women.
MUSLIM WOMEN/WOMAN OF
ISLAM
• Historically, the “Moros” or Muslim in the Philippines were said to come from at least two
sultanates in Mindanao, Sulu and Palawan, during the pre-Hispanic era.
• Muslim women in the country are affected by armed conflict. They have become widows and
survivors, and consequently bears the burden of solely providing for their respective families.
