WOMEN

PREPARED BY:
AQUINO, ERIKA ALBERTO, RYAN GLOUVASA, IMELOU
SERRANO, MARIANNE

YAMBOT, TJ

SAGSAGAT, MARIANNE

SANTOS, JANINE

EQUALITY OF WOMEN
BY: MARIANNE M. SERRANO

Womens
Rights
Beijing Declaration

Human rights and

fundamental freedoms
are the birthright of all
human beings;

In many countries in
Asia, Middle East and
Africa, women have a
lower status than men
before the law.

Sex Discrimination Against Women

distinction, exclusion or restriction made on the basis of

sex which has the effect or purpose of impairing or nullifying the
recognition, enjoyment or exercise by women, irrespective of
their marital status, on a basis of equality of men and
women, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the
political, economic, social, cultural, civil or any other field. (Art.
1, CEDAW)

State Parties to the Convention

Are obliged to:

Implement this principle of equal

protection of men and women in their
national constitutions

Adopt legal measures to prohibit

discrimination against women

Modify or abolish all laws, customs

and practices that discriminate women.

Change the social and cultural

patterns and practices that are based
on the ideas of the inferiority of women
(Article 2-8, Convention on Women)

Objectives

To recognize and promote

womens rights as human
rights to be manifested in
national and local legal
instruments
To develop genderresponsive
policies/programs that
identify and correct biases
in social institutions that
conceal and justify the
unequal relation of women
and men

To protect:
Right to Iegal equality
Ownership of property
Quality of education
Equal employment opportunities
Political participation

Adequate social, health and other

services
To eliminate womens
discrimination in all aspects of
their lives

Beijing Declaration

220. Every person should be

entitled to participate in,
contribute to and enjoy
cultural, economic, political
and social development. In
many cases women and girls
suffer discrimination in the
allocation of economic and
social resources. This directly
violates their economic, social
and cultural rights

o 225. Many women face additional

barriers to the enjoyment of their
human rights because of such factors
as their race, language, ethnicity,
culture, religion, disability or socioeconomic class or because they are
indigenous people, migrants, including
women migrant workers, displaced
women or refugees.

POLITICAL RIGHTS
BY: RYAN ALBERTO

Political Rights of Women

On equal terms with man, without any discrimination, women are entitled:

To vote

To be voted upon for any public office

To hold public office and to exercise public
functions

Convention on the Political

Rights of Women (New York,
1953)
Purpose:
To implement the principle of equality of rights for men and women contained in the
Charter of United Nations

The right to take part in the government of his country, directly or indirectly
through freely chosen representatives

The right to equal access to public service in his country

The right to equal status with men in the enjoyment and exercise of political rights

Beijing Declaration (China,

September 1995)

Focused on the need of economic independence of women.

Calls on all governments to reflect on their policies for the elimination of discrimination
against women

Platform of action
was focused on critical areas of:
women and poverty,
women and education,
women and health,
violence against women, women in armed conflict,
women and economic equality,
women and politics

Constitution, Labor
Code, Civil Code
BY: IMELOUS GLOUVASA

Vulnerable Groups (Women)

Article XIII, Section 14 (1987 Constitution)

Protect working women by providing safe and healthful working conditions,

taking into account their maternal functions

Labor Code, Article 135. Discrimination Prohibited

Objective:to ensure equal work opportunities regardless of sex, race, or creed.
Article 135, prohibits any form of discrimination against a woman on account of her sex.

R.A. No. 7192 provides that the state recognizes the role of women in nationbuilding and shall ensure the fundamental equality before the law of women and
men. The State shall provide women rights and opportunities equal to that of men.
It promotes the integration of women as full and equal partners of men in
development and nation-building.

Beijing Declaration
Critical Areas of Concern

Persistent and increasing burden of poverty on women

Inequalities and inadequacies in and unequal access to education

and training, health care and related services

Violations against women

Effects of armed or other kinds of conflict on women, including

those living under foreign occupation

Inequality in economic structures and policies, in all forms of

productive activities and in access to resources

Laws on Womens Rights

1987
Constitution

Family Code

Labor Code

Republic Act No. 7877

Anti-Sexual
Harassment Act of
1995
BY: TJ YAMBOT

What is Republic Act No. 7877?

RA 7877 is The Anti-Sexual Harassment

Act of 1995. It addresses the issue of
sexual harassment committed in work and
education or training environment.

It was signed into law on February 14,

1995 under former President Fidel
Ramos administration

What is sexual harassment?

Work, education or training related sexual

harassment is - committed by an employer,
employee, manager, supervisor, agent of the
employer, teacher, instructor, professor, coach,
trainer, or any other person who, having
authority, influence or moral ascendancy
over another in a work or training or education
environment, demands, requests or otherwise
requires any sexual favor from the other,
regardless of whether the demand, request or
requirement for submission is accepted by the
object of said Act.

How is work-related sexual harassment committed?

The sexual favor is made as a condition in the hiring or in the employment, reemployment or continued employment of said individual, or in granting said individual
favorable compensation, terms, conditions, promotions, or privileges; or the refusal to
grant the sexual favor results in limiting, segregating or classifying the employee which
in any way would discriminate, deprive or diminish employment opportunities or
otherwise adversely affect said employee;

The above acts would impair the employees rights or privileges under existing labor laws;
or

The above acts would result in an intimidating, hostile, or offensive environment for the
employee.

What about education or training-related

sexual harassment?
This is committed:

Against one who is under the care, custody or supervision of the offender;

Against one whose education, training, apprenticeship or tutorship is entrusted to the offender;

When the sexual favor is made a condition to the giving of a passing grade, or the granting of
honors and scholarships, or the payment of a stipend, allowance or other, benefits, privileges, or
considerations; or

When the sexual advances result in an intimidating, hostile or offensive environment for the
student, trainee or apprentice.

A person who directs or induces another person to commit any act of sexual harassment or who
cooperates to commit the act, without which the said act would not have been committed, will also be
held liable under the law.

What are the penalties

applied to offenders?

Any person who violates

the provisions of the law
shall be penalized by
imprisonment of not less
than one (1) month nor
more than six (6) months,
or a fine of not less than
Ten thousand pesos (PI
0,000) nor more than
Twenty thousand pesos
(P20.000), or both such fine
and imprisonment at the
discretion of the court

Can an offended party

seek redress by taking
independent action?

What if the employer or head of

office did not undertake any
action despite his/her knowledge
of sexual harassment act/s?

An offended party may

take independent action
for damages incurred in
the act of sexual
harassment.

The employer or head of an

office, educational or training
institution will be held liable for
the damages arising from acts of
sexual harassment if they are
informed by the offended party of
the occurrence of such acts, yet
no action has been undertaken

Republic Act No. 9208 AntiTrafficking in Persons Act of

2003

BY: JANINE SANTOS

Republic Act No. 9208

"Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act
of 2003"
The State values the dignity of every
human person and guarantees the respect
of individual rights. In pursuit of this policy,
the State shall give highest priority to the
enactment of measures and development
of programs that will promote human
dignity, protect the people from any threat
of violence and exploitation, eliminate
trafficking in persons, and mitigate
pressures for involuntary migration and
servitude of persons, not only to support
trafficked persons but more importantly, to
ensure their recovery, rehabilitation and
reintegration into the mainstream of
society.

Human trafficking
As the recruitment, transportation,
transfer or harboring, or receipt of
persons with or without the victim's
consent or knowledge, within or
across national borders by means of
threat or use of force, or other
forms of coercion, abduction, fraud,
deception, abuse of power or of
position, taking advantage of the
vulnerability of the person, or, the
giving or receiving of payments or
benefits to achieve the consent of a
person having control over another
person
for
the
purpose
of
exploitation which includes at a
minimum, the exploitation or the
prostitution of others or other forms
of sexual exploitation, forced labor
or services, slavery, servitude or
the removal or sale of organs.

A Closer Two
Look
Main Forms of
Exploitation Resulting from
Human Trafficking
Sexual
Exploitation

- Prostitution
- Exotic
Dancers
- Escorts
- Bidding on
Individuals
as
Prizes

Forced Labour or

Services
- Domestic servants
- Unpaid or
underpaid work
- Farm work
- Factory work
- Street peddling
and begging
- Child workers
- Adoption
- Child Soldiers
- Mail-order Brides

Refugees and
displaced
persons due to
war, natural
disasters, etc.

Those living in
poverty

The Victims

The
socially
excluded
Tourists

All persons, but most

prominently:

women and children

Runaways
Primary Vs. Secondary

The uneducated
and naive

Primary: Individuals suffering through direct involvement.

Secondary: Friends, families, schools, churches, communities.

Republic Act No. 9262

Anti-Violence Against
Women and Their
Children Act
BY: ERIKA AQUINO

Anti Violence Against Women and Their

Children Act of 2004
For the protection of women and children from violence.
This law establishes the parameters and guidelines, in keeping with the
fundamental freedoms guaranteed under the Constitution and the Provisions
of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Convention on the
Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women, Convention
on the Rights of the Child and other international human rights instruments
of which the Philippines is a party. (Section 2 of R.A. 9262)

The persons protected by R.A. 9262

The following are the persons who are protected by R.A. 9262:
a) Wife;
b) Former wife;
c) A woman with whom the offender has or had sexual relations with;
d) A woman with whom the offender has a common child with;
e) The legitimate or illegitimate child of the woman within or without
the family abode.

Acts of violence covered under R. A 9262

SEXUAL
VIOLENCE

acts which are sexual in nature, committed against a

woman or her child

PSYCHOLOGICAL
VIOLENCE

Acts or omissions causing or likely to cause mental or

emotional suffering of the victim such as but not limited
to intimidation, harassment, stalking, damage to
property, public ridicule or humiliation, repeated verbal
abuse and mental infidelity.

ECONOMIC
ABUSE

Acts that make or attempt to make a

woman financially dependent upon her
abuser;

SEXUAL VIOLENCE
Sexual violence:
a) Rape, sexual harassment, acts of lasciviousness, treating a woman or her
child as a sex object, making demeaning and sexually suggestive remarks,
physically attacking the sexual parts of the victims body, forcing him or her to
watch obscene publications and indecent shows or forcing the woman or her child to do
indecent acts and/or make films thereof, forcing the wife and mistress/lover to live in the
conjugal home or sleep together in the same room with the abuser.
b) Acts causing or attempting to cause the victim to engage in any sexual
activity by force, threat of force, physical or other harm or threat of physical or other
harm or coercion.
c) Prostituting the woman or child.

PSYCHOLOGICAL VIOLENCE

causing or allowing the victim to witness the physical, sexual or psychological

abuse of a member of the family to which the victim belongs, or

to witness pornography in any form or to witness abusive injury to pets or

to unlawful or unwanted deprivation of the right to custody and/or visitation of

common children.

Republic Act No. 9710

Magna Carta of Women
BY: MARIANNE SAGSAGAT

THE MAGNA CARTA OF WOMEN (R.A. 9710)

Emphasizes the rights of

women and institutionalizes
the substantive equality of
men and women. The
essence of the law is not only
to provide equal
opportunities for women
but also their
empowerment.

THE MAGNA CARTA OF WOMEN MANDATES THE STATE TO:

Abolish

the unequal structures and practices that perpetrate

discrimination and inequality to women, such as the repeal of
discriminatory provisions of existing laws;

Eliminate

the discrimination of women in the military, police,

and other similar services;

Increase

the number of women participating in discussions

and decision-making in the peace process, including
membership in peace panels;

THE MAGNA CARTA OF WOMEN MANDATES THE STATE TO:

Ensure

the development and inclusion of

womens welfare and concern in the peace
agenda;

Give

special consideration for the specific

needs of women in conflict-affected
communities;

Adopt

measure to:

Protect girl-children from all forms of

abuse and exploitation

Eliminate all forms of discrimination

against girl-children in education, health
and nutrition, and skills development

Protect the rights of Moro and indigenous women to practice, promote, and preserve their own
culture, traditions and institutions which are not discriminatory to women

RIGHTS OF WOMEN
Equal

rights in All Matters Relating to Marriage and Family Relations

Right

to be protected from all forms of violence

All

government agencies are mandated to give priority to the defense and

protection of women against gender-based offenses

Right to participation and equitable representation in all spheres of society

Right against dismissal or expulsion from school due to pregnancy out of
wedlock
Right against discriminatory and derogatory portrayal in media and film
Right to education, training and information

RIGHTS OF WOMEN IN ESPECIALLY DIFFICULT

CIRCUMSTANCES

Temporary and protective custody

Counseling and Psychiatric evaluation
Legal Services

Financial Assistance
Livelihood assistance

Productivity skills capability building

Job placement

Right to decent work

Involves opportunities for work
that are productive and fairly
remunerative as family living
wage, security in the workplace,
better prospects for personal
development and social
integration.

Right to special leave benefits

Women employees who have undergone surgery
caused by gynecological disorders are entitled to a
special leave of 2 months with full pay

QUESTIONS?