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.