Programs
Launching of WEAVE’s “A Feminist Economic Justice Agenda for the ASEAN”
Women and girls comprise half or 49.96% of the Association of South East Asian Nations’ (ASEAN) combined population of 655.9 million people who are vital cogs in the region’s economic sectors, with women representing 44.4% percent of workers in the service sector,...
Gender Transformative Approach in Times of COVID-19: Voices of Women and Girl Children from the Ground
Even before this crisis, marginalized women and girls suffer disproportionately from inequalities. The poverty which they endure plus their being women and girls all play in the discrimination that they experience which also further pushes them to poverty. The lack of...
Nothing About Us Without Us: Boses ng Kababaihang (BOKA) Ayta Abellen
Pagpapalalim ng Pag-unawa sa Pagiging Isang Ayta Abellen: Pagpapatibay ng Ugnayan/Relasyon sa Isa't-isa at Samahan ng Kababaihan tungo sa Pagpapalakas ng Akses sa Serbisyong Panlipunan A three-day workshop was conducted by WLB and Kababaihang Samahan ng Zambales...
Nothing About Us Without Us: Boses ng Kababaihang (BOKA) Ayta Abellen
Pagpapalalim ng Pag-unawa at Pagpapaunlad ng Kakayanan ng mga Kababaihang Ayta Abellen sa Sama-samang Pamumuno Last May 28-29, 2018, WLB and Kababaihang Samahan ng Maporac (KASAMA) conducted a capacity building workshop with the Ayta Abellen women from four villages...
Nothing About Us Without Us – Boses ng Kababaihan: Sama-samang Pagsasanay ng Kakayanan at Pagpapanday ng Kagalingan ng mga Kababaihan Ukol sa Batas
Last September 7-9 WLB conducted a capacity building activity for the women of Samar entitled Boses ng Kababaihan (BOKA): Sama-samang Pagsasanay ng Kakayanan at Pagpapanday ng Kagalingan ng mga Kababaihan Ukol sa Batas. Held in Be Hotel, Tacloban, Leyte and was...
Nothing About Us Without Us: Building cooperation and teamwork with Ayta Abellen women-leaders of Maporac, Zambales
Last January 24, 2018, WLB conducted a Planning-Meeting workshop with four women-leaders of Maporac, Zambales. The workshop highlighted Besides facilitating cooperation and working together as part of a team, the activity also covered discussions on how to effectively...
Nothing About Us Without Us: Amplifying Voices of Marginalized Sectors in Masbate
WLB, together with ACE Mabateños, conducted several informal discussions in three identified Barangay in Masbate namely, Barangays Alas and Tagpu in Mandaon, and Barangay Panubigan in Balud. Two groups from each community were met: (1) adult support group which...
Women’s Legal Fund
The Women’s Legal Fund (WLF) is a cross-cutting program of WLB which aims to strengthen women’s access to justice for a range of violations of women’s human rights. WLF promotes feminist legal advocacy, practice and methods that proceeds from women’s rights norms and...
Human Rights and Policy Advocacy
Human Rights and Policy Advocacy (HR and Pol-Ad), as one of the core programs of WLB, aims to achieve the goal of increasing women’s access to justice and demanding accountability from the State for violations of women’s human rights. HR and Pol-Ad adopts a range of...
Engendering the Barangay Justice System (EBJS)
Accessing the law and the legal system is often one of the last options of Filipino women to address violations of her human rights, if considered at all. Women’s lack of information about these rights, the law and where to seek help, and costs of legal services that...
