The Senate Committee on Women, Children, Family Relations and Gender Equality, chaired by Senator Risa Hontiveros, held its first Senate Public Hearing on the so-called Tres Maria bills – Anti-Rape Act, the Anti-Sexual Harassment Bill, and the Gender-Based Electronic Violence, on December 12, 2016. “The measure of these three Read more
Did you know almost 74% of women, aged 18-30 and younger are more likely to experience online violence? And did you know that Facebook (28%) and mobile phones (23%) are the platforms where most violations were reported? Check out this infographic that draws on the 130 cases reported on the Read more
BREAKING NEWS: The Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA), a non-government organization based in Quezon City is happy to announce that Aksyon VAW is now available on Appstore. FMA began in 2012 to map cases on technology-related violence against women (see Take Back The Tech Philippines) in order to find ways Read more
The Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA) has a longstanding track record of working at the intersection of gender, technology, digital rights, and women’s safety. An early example of this work was FMA’s participation in the Safe Cities Metro Manila Programme, a Philippine implementation of UN Women’s global Safe Cities initiative, Read more
On February 23, 2016 the mobile application AksyonVAW made its debut in Google Playstore. But what is AksyonVAW all about? Aksyon is the Filipino word for action, and VAW stands for violence against women. The app AksyonVAW is a project of the Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA), a non-government organisation based in Quezon City Read more