By DANILDA L. FUSILERO
Davao Today
Retired professor Vilma Gonzales of the local Network of Women raised her doubts over the country’s international ranking in gender relations as “sexual abuses, rape, among others still abound with most perpetrators go unpunished.”
By KENETTE JEAN I. MILLONDAGA
Davao Today
She was not simply the wife of an indigenous anti-mining activist. Juvy Capion, the woman killed in what is now called the Tampakan massacre, was a farmer, mother of four, and leader of the Blaan community.
By DANILDA L. FUSILERO
Davao Today
Leah Emily Minoza, executive director of the Davao City-based Women’s Studies and Resource Center (WSRC) said Gender and Development (GAD) budget, which is supposed to be five percent of a local government unit’s allocation is even hardly implemented. Worse, it is mostly being used for purposes other than for gender programs.
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today
While many of the members of the Congress have their attire haute couture and not a few designed by the country’s top fashion (read: expensive) designers like Pitoy Moreno , nationalist lawmakers like Ilagan opted to stay grounded just like the people she vowed to serve.
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today
Gabriela wished to discourage Filipinos “from the bad practice of sharing sleazy videos” by spreading the counter-message of the “Manila Scandal Part 2.” It hopes to “mobilize the public to use the internet in solving one of the scourges of electronic harassment, bullying and violence against women” by posting the video to their FB account or website and through Twitter by using the #manilascandal2 hashtag.
High unemployment rates are especially higher on women because they are seen as a mere “secondary labor force.” Marginalization of women workers is the reason why they are forced to take high risk jobs like becoming domestic helpers even in war-torn countries.
“There is nothing funny about the sexual exploitation of women and children and the illicit sex trade in the Philippines….
Makibaka, an underground revolutionary women organization allied with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines, is one with all women…
DAVAO CITY — The number of mothers who die in childbirth has to go down in the Autonomous Region in…
As the Reproductive House (RH) Bill 5043 is being debated in Congress, the RH Davao Network demands that the Arroyo…
