For the 2nd anniversary of the signing of the Safe Spaces Act or the Bawal Bastos Law, the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines – Gender Equality and Women’s Human Right Center, in partnership with Women’s Legal and Human Rights Bureau...
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,...
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...
This document was prepared and documented by the Women’s Legal and Human Rights Bureau, Inc. (WLB) and four partner communities of WLB: (1) Ayta women in Cabangan, Zambales; (2) Post-Haiyan victim-survivors in Marabut, Samar; (3) Women farmers in Real, Nakar, Infanta,...
This document was prepared and documented by the Women’s Legal and Human Rights Bureau, Inc. (WLB) and four partner communities of WLB: (1) Ayta women in Cabangan, Zambales; (2) Post-Haiyan victim-survivors in Marabut, Samar; (3) Women farmers in Real, Nakar, Infanta,...