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.
The history of engagement of people’s organizations in non-traditional program and projects spells the difference of what constitutes civil society in the Philippines.
In the 60s, the first wave of migrants from the Philippines to the United States landed in Hawaii and neighboring states to settle as migrant workers with no specific professional and gendered identities, except that some were technically skilled and some were college degree holders or intellectually and academically advantaged in their own right.
The trouble with the Philippine educational system is that it is foreign-dictated and it is now unmasked when the country's Commission on Higher Education chief herself, Patricia B. Licuanan. Licuanan was quoted saying that Filipino youth does not have to enter college.
The participation of children in seeking solution to their problem, both as children and as members of their community, is highly recognized among child rights activists and advocates.