As technology continues to define the landscape of our everyday lives, it may also be used as an instrument to bring forth new forms of gender-based violence (GBV) and exacerbate existing inequalities experienced by and disproportionately affect women and girls. Technology-facilitated GBV is any act that is committed, assisted, aggravated Read more…
August 30 was declared National Press Freedom Day under Republic Act 11699 to honor the father of Philippine journalism, Marcelo H. Del Pilar. Despite this Philippine government initiative, our press freedom is continuously under siege. The Philippines’ ranking in the World Press Freedom Index dropped this year, to nine places ending 147th 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…
Last month, the Foundation for Media Alternatives observed the National Information and Communications Technology (ICT) month. As part of our commitment to advancing the people’s right to privacy, intern Victoria Champagne from the Alternatives spoke with Filipina visual artist Christa Vega (ART by slothbender), who challenges the default sexualization of Read more…
To mark the 109th international celebration of Women’s Day, hundreds of women gathered together in front of the University of Sto. Tomas and marched to Plaza Miranda in Quiapo, Manila on March 8, 2018 to denounce violence against women as a policy of the Duterte administration. Aside from chanting the women’s 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 September 2010, GALANG, a lesbian-initiated, lesbian-run feminist human rights organization founded in August 2008, developed Tatsulok Komiks to deal with lesbophobia by coming up with a comic series anchored on the themes of equality and non-discrimination in Principle 2 of the Yogyokarta Principles. Tatsulok is the Filipino word for 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…