DAVAO CITY — The number of mothers who die in childbirth has to go down in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) if the Philippines is to meet the Millenium Development Goal (MDG). ARMM has been coined as the worst place to be a mother, where 162 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births have...

As the Reproductive House (RH) Bill 5043 is being debated in Congress, the RH Davao Network demands that the Arroyo government recognize the lack of a strong population and development and reproductive health program which will uphold the right of Filipino families to health and better quality of life. There...

“History and recent experience should have taught us that the presence of US troops in the country has been exploiting our women,” said Gabriela solon Luzviminda Ilagan, citing reports on US soldiers �being given prostituted women for leisure in Bicol.� Senator Francis Pangilinan expressed his...

Gabriela Women’s Party (GWP) joined concerned citizens and representatives of women’s and people’s organizations as they filed a special petition for the Supreme Court to investigate the circumstances of the alleged execution of the sworn statement by Nicole on March 12, 2009 and the...

DAVAO CITY — Members of Gabriela and March 8 Convenors are set to stage protest actions as a vow to continue the fight for the abrogation of the RP-US Visiting Forces Agreement. Gabriela leader Lyda J. Canson said that even with Nicole’s recantation on her case against convicted rapist Lance...

Stop Nicole-bashing, denounce VFA and Philippine justice system — Gabriela solon Gabriela Women’s Party-list Representative Luzviminda Ilagan made an appeal to stop blaming Nicole for her recantation on the rape case against Daniel Smith, who was convicted in December 2006. Ilagan said that...

In memory of Rebelyn Pitao on International Women’s Day 2009 The news of the abduction, torture and killing of a 20-year-old teacher, Rebelyn Pitao, in the southern Philippines demonstrates just how low the regime of Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has sunk. Desperate to hang onto...

By CJ KUIZON, MARILOU AGUIRRE- TUBURAN AND GRACE UDDIN Davao Today DAVAO CITY � “Baboy kaayo ang pagpatay sa iyaha. Wala siya gitrato nga tao (Slaughtered like a pig. She wasn�t treated like a human being).� During a women’s rights forum hosted by militant women’s group Gabriela last week,...

By MARILOU M. AGUIRRE | Davao Today DAVAO CITY — Davao city Mayor Rodrigo Duterte defended the revised Local Development Plan for Children (LDPC) against questions raised by the Catholic Church on its reproductive health and safe pregnancy program. “God’s policy is antiquated and it...

(Hango sa datos ni Councilor Angela Librado-Trinidad) By MALOU TIANGCO Member, Gabriela-Southern Mindanao Tunay nga me mga naisulong na programa Para sa kapakanan, kaunlaran ng mga kababaihan sa lungsod Nataguyod ang kampanya ng pagpapasuso sa gatas ng ina Panawagan sa istruktura ng kababaihan sa barangay...

By GERMELINA A. LACORTE | Davao Today DAVAO CITY — “The place looks very nice, it doesn’t feel like a jail at all,” Colin Davies, deputy representative of the United Nations Children’s Education Fund (Unicef), observed in a brief visit early this month to the Ray of Hope...

By GERMELINA A. LACORTE | Davao Today Former Regional Trial Court Judge Adoracion Avisado and City Councilor Angela Librado urged Mayor Rodrigo Duterte to take a strong stance in the fight against sex trafficking. In a city peace and order meeting here, Librado prodded Duterte to look into the live shows...

By CHERYLL D. FIEL | Davao Today In the wake of the National Broadband Network (NBN) deal scandal, a legislation has been passed in Congress that the public, especially the women, must be wary about, said Davao Judge Jesus Quitain on the passage of House Bill 2420. The bill, which seeks to amend the Family...

By Jean Duron-Abangan TAGUM CITY—– A lady judge urged Monday the provincial government of Davao del Norte to put up a crisis center management to serve abused women. Speaking during the Monday Convocation sponsored by the Regional Trial Court Branch in Davao del Norte, Judge...

Members of the Gabriela Network in New York held last week a “beauty pageant” to dramatize the killings of political activists, many of them women, in the Philippines. Photo shows a GABNet member dressed like a beauty queen, with a sash saying �Miss-Ogyny,� and holding a purple umbrella decked...

MANILA — Last May 16, history was made as three Pinays became the first Southeast Asian women to summit Mount Everest and the first women in the world to traverse the mountain from the North side to the South side. Filipinas Noelle Wenceslao, Carina Dayondon, and Janet Belarmino certainly made our...

Delegates and participants at the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) World Congress in Moscow put the rights of women in media at the top of the agenda in an effort to press demands for an end to media stereotyping and discrimination. ...

MANILA — �Where is Daniel Smith? This convicted rapist cannot just disappear as he pleases. If he is indeed sick, the public still has the right to question his whereabouts.� ...

MANILA — �May Gabriela sa bawat isa sa atin� (�There is a Gabriela in each of us�). So goes television and movie actress Angel Locsin in a television advertisement for Gabriela Women�s Party. �We are thankful that Gabriela�s fight for women�s rights meets with Angel�s advocacy for women�s empowerment,...

MANILA — Women party-list Babae para sa Kaunlaran (BABAE KA) today categorically denied that it is a stooge of Malaca�ang even as it challenged Gabriela party-list to file a formal complaint. ...

MANILA — The country�s broadest alliance of groups composed of OFWs and their families today formally launched its OFWs for Gabriela Movement with an OFW Covenant signing and colorful motorcade across Quezon City. �This launching affirms our endorsement and ongoing support for Gabriela as the only...

NEWS RELEASE 18 April 2007 Reference: Rep. Liza Largoza-Maza, Gabriela Women�s Partylist (09209134540) Cristina Palabay, GWP Secretary General (09175003879) Gabriela Women�s Partylist Headquarters (9284007) Gabriela solon to IPU:...

NEWS RELEASE 17 April 2007 Reference: Rep. Liza Maza, Gabriela Women�s Partylist (09209134540) Emmi de Jesus, Gabriela Secretary General (09173221203) GABRIELA to AFP: WHERE IS LUISA? �Almost two decades ago, we took up the fight for Ma. Luisa Posa-Dominado�s freedom from the...

NEWS RELEASE 13 April 2007 Reference: Rep. Liza Maza, GABRIELA Women�s Partylist (09209134540) GWP hits regime for abduction of woman human rights defender �This regime, true to its anti-women and violent nature, seems intent on silencing every woman who dared speak against it. Maria Luisa Posa-Dominado...

NEWS RELEASE 09 April 2007 Reference: Joms Salvador, Gabriela Spokesperson, 371-2302 GABRIELA Condemns CA�s Decision Approving Smith�s Transfer The militant women�s group GABRIELA condemned the decision of the Court of Appeals affirming the legality of transfer of custody of convicted rapist Lance Cpl....