The Gender and ICT Program focuses on the intersection between ICT and gender rights and issues, including women's use and access of ICTs and tech-related gender-based violence.
FMA's Privacy Program works to advocate the right to privacy of citizens, which includes the right against unlawful surveillance. FMA conducts research and monitors policy developments related to privacy rights not only in the Philippines, but in a global context as well.
As internet use continues to play an important role in Philippine society, FMA works to ensure that Philippine internet governance is inclusive, democratic, and rights-based. The Internet Rights Program therefore engages in issues such as meaningful access and free expression in the internet.
Today in Herstory Photo Source: Senator Risa Hontiveros Facebook Page THREE (3) YEARS AGO, Senator Risa Hontiveros welcomed the lapsing into law of a proposed measure that penalizes catcalling, wolf-whistling and other forms of gender-based street harassment Read more…
We’re In The News “In the Philippines, the Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA) reported that the most prevalent cases of online gender-based violence in 2021 are the non-consensual distribution of intimate images (48.00%), threats of violence or Read more…
The public’s concerns about the mandatory SIM card registration’s pitfalls immediately surfaced soon after it took effect. Technical glitches marred the first days of its rollout, while news of data breaches in government agencies cast Read more…
Last March 10, 2023, FMA attended and paneled the UN CS267 side event titled Cybersafe Against Fake News in New York, USA. Watch Ms Liza Garcia of FMA talk about women and girls’ safety online amid rampant Read more…
Check what we have gathered this March: Southeast Asia business group offers help in developing MSMEs in PHThe pledge of assistance was made during the series of meetings of members of the Association of Southeast Read more…
The syndicated estafa case is the most recent of the acts of harassment against them since they were ejected from the land they till in October 2022, according to a statement of Katarungan, a support and advocacy group on peasant and land rights.