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,...
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,...
WLB’s statement in commemmoration of the International Women’s Day 2019 (March 8, 2019) Even as we commemorate the international women’s day, women today still continue to face violence, misogyny, and discrimination perpetuated, tolerated, and even...
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...