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FMA signs joint statement on WMW-Pilipinas’ International Women’s Day 2020
Women Occupy Spaces sit down strike on Sunday, March 8, as the world celebrates International Women’s Day #IWD2020
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FMA signs joint statement on WMW-Pilipinas’ International Women’s Day 2019
Through our mass actions, public gatherings, and different forms of protest, we are commemorating this year’s International Women’s Day as an occasion to celebrate the victories that we have won and to affirm our continuing fight against forces that set us back in our hard-won struggles—forces of patriarchy, of misogyny, Read more…
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Today in #HerStory: International Women Human Rights Defenders (2018)
Today, we celebrate International Women Human Rights Defenders Day. Women human rights defenders are women who defend human rights, and all persons who defend the rights of women, girls and LGBTQIA+ persons. Several human rights defenders and organizations declared November 29 as the International Day on Women Human Rights Defenders Read more…
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FMA signs joint statement on the “Virgin Marie” video
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…
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FMA marks National Women’s Month
Presidential Proclamation No. 224 Series of 1988 declares the observance of the month of March as Women’s Role in History Month. Republic Act No. 6949 Series of 1990 declares March 8 of every year as National Women’s Day, which aims to give recognition to the contributions of Filipino women in Read more…
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This day in #Herstory: Sisters in struggle — the women of the Left
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…