Women’s rights and World Food Day
“Women hold up half the sky” is the slogan that synthesizes the call and struggle for women’s rights. This may be an understatement.
“Women hold up half the sky” is the slogan that synthesizes the call and struggle for women’s rights. This may be an understatement.
Forty-three years ago, on the eve of martial law, a Senator quizzically asked “What’s happening to our country, General?” Perhaps, in another ominous time— ten, twenty, or God knows how many years from today—a similar question will again be asked.
It was a fine day in a village inside a banana plantation when the serenity of the cold morning was broken by the hovering sound of a plane.
Philippine politics has descended into the realm of the dead. It is election season, and even before the official campaign period, already the political parties have launched their strategies in presenting and marketing their respective presidential bets.
For decades the country has proudly produced legal bases on its treatment of women in both private and public spheres. From the Family Code, Women in Nation-building Act, Magna Carta of Women to Reproductive Health, we could say it is indeed a fertile setting, not only in land and other natural resources, but also in social landscape.