FMA joins the Women’s Legal and Human Rights Bureau – WLB and other women’s rights organizations in this statement calling out the “Virgin Marie” video for perpetuating harmful myths about rape. Read the statement in full below: VICTIMS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE DO NOT CRY WOLF “We, the children and women’s rights Read more…
This entry was originally posted by the Association for Progressive Communications. It has been three years since I attended my first RightsCon, which was held in Manila in 2015. This year, my participation at RightsCon Toronto was made possible with support from the APC Member Exchange and Travel Fund. I organised Read more…
The Foundation for Media Alternatives in partnership with Talakayang Alay sa Bayan (TALAB) – Ateneo de Manila University is organizing a session on “Gender, violence, technology and the SDGs: Are we doing enough?” on February 21 (Wednesday) at the Ateneo de Manila University. Our session will provide an overview of Read more…
These materials were produced by the Foundation for Media Alternatives from the Philippines as part of APC’s MDG3: Take Back the Tech! to end violence against women project. Attached below you can find useful materials for awareness raising and training on the subject of violence against women perpetrated through information and Read more…
Every year, the Philippines observes December 12 as the International Day against Trafficking to mark the adoption of the “Protocol To Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children.” As part of the advocacy campaign during International Day Against Trafficking in 2011, the Coalition Against Trafficking in Read more…
Since the beginning of Philippine democracy, few legislators have had as much impact on the women’s rights movement as Senator Leticia Ramos-Shahani. After earning literature degrees from Wellesley College, Columbia University, and the University of Paris, Senator Shahani joined the Division of Human Rights at the United Nations. She became Read more…
On February 14, 2013 the One Billion Rising campaign was launched globally as a global day of action, and dancing, to protest against violence against women. It was a call for one billion women and all the men who love them to walk out of their offices, homes, and schools, Read more…
In June 1994, the second volume of HERsay magazine was published. HERsay was a biannual publication of the Women’s Legal Bureau, Inc. (now Women’s Legal and Human Rights Bureau). WLB was organized in November 1990 as a feminist legal resource non-governmental organization that offers services including legal assistance to women and women’s Read more…
Domestic violence is one of the major manifestations of gender-based violence in the Philippines. With unequal power relations reinforced by political, socio-cultural, and societal structures, men continue to reinforce their dominance unto women, even with the use of brute and physical force resulting to gender-based violence perpetuated in the four Read more…
Since 1991, the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence has been held every year from November 25, the International Day for the Elimination of violence against women, to December 10, Human Rights day. In the Philippines, the campaign runs until December 12. Proclamation No. 1172 declares November 25 Read more…