Quezon City, Philippines– 17 November 2016Women’s organizations from different sectors and provinces of the country discussed the Women’s Agenda for the Philippine Chairship of ASEAN in 2017.The Philippines is the host of the ASEAN in 2017 with the theme,...
The Women’s Legal and Human Rights Bureau, Inc. (WLB), together with members of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) Working Group Philippines, challenges the new administration to perform better than the Aquino...
The Philippines hosts the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders Meeting on November 17-20, 2015. A founding member, the Philippines has consistently followed APEC’s neoliberal, market-driven and corporate-led framework of economic development....
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 (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...