Change is not coming when even the front-runners of supposed change become the bearers of discrimination against women. Duterte’s series of anti-women remarks and rape jokes are a blatant disrespect to the Magna Carta of Women and the 1987 Constitution. Female critics...
Weaving Women’s Voices in ASEAN (WEAVE) is a regional group of women’s organizations and advocates working at the national level in six ASEAN countries: Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Myanmar, the Philippines, and Thailand. WEAVE advocates for women’s rights...
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...
The Women’s Legal and Human Rights Bureau stands with women, human rights organizations, and activists who condemn the series of sexist remarks made by President Rodrigo Duterte. We abhor the president’s misogynistic, anti-women statements that contribute to the...
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...