FMA in the News! FMA releases the Digital Rights Report 2022 This edition of the Digital Rights Report from the Foundation for Media Alternatives documented the events, trends, and changes that had transpired in the digital space over the course of 2022. Building on the previous annual reports, this paper aims to offer a 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 information disorder here! The sixty-seventh session of the Commission on the Status of Women took place Read more…
NOVEMBER 2022 GenderScoop is a monthly digest on gender & ICT in the Philippines CONCERTED EFFORTS OF DIFFERENT STAKEHOLDERS TO ADDRESS GBV PCW shares efforts toward child rights protection in PH dialogue with United NationsThe Philippine delegation expressed to the Committee its earnest commitment to ensure that children’s rights are Read more…
In light of recent comments made by public officials that treated sexual assault as a mere joke, rendering it “acceptable” and not worthy of condemnation, it is important for Filipinos to be cognizant about the gravity of gender-based violence. The current patriarchal and misogynistic culture pervading the country, further perpetuated 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…
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…
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY | Generally, Digital Literacy is the set of competencies required for full participation in knowledge society. It includes knowledge, skills and behaviors involving the effective use of digital devices such as computer desktops, laptops, smartphones and tablets for the purpose of communications, seeking job opportunity, expression, collaboration, education Read more…
Pasay City – The Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA) was invited by the Senate Committee on Women, Children, Family Relations and Gender Equality as one of the resource persons during the second public hearing on Gender-based Electronic Violence (SBN 1251) and the E-VAW Law of 2016. The Public Hearing was presided Read more…