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The Magna Carta of Women guarantees the rights of women, including farmers and rural workers, informal sector workers and the urban poor, indigenous women, and those with disabilities, as well as older women and girls. These guarantees rights that include those involving food security, affordable and secure housing, employment, the recognition ...
Website. Official website. Miriam Palma Defensor-Santiago GCS QSC (née Defensor; June 15, 1945 – September 29, 2016) was a Filipino scholar, academic, lawyer, judge, author, and stateswoman who served in all three branches of the Philippine government: judicial, executive, and legislative. Defensor Santiago was named one of The 100 Most ...
t. e. Magna Carta Libertatum (Medieval Latin for "Great Charter of Freedoms"), commonly called Magna Carta or sometimes Magna Charta ("Great Charter"), [a] is a royal charter [4][5] of rights agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215. [b] First drafted by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Cardinal Stephen Langton ...
The term "violence against women" is "the word or concept (that) has been used in a broad, inclusive manner to encompass verbal abuse, intimidation, physical harassment, homicide, sexual assault, and rape." [1] This form of violence is gender-biased. Violence occurs precisely because of their gender, specifically because the victims are women.
The women's suffrage movement in the Philippines was one of the first, major occasions on which women grouped together politically. It was also one of the first women's rights movements, and endeavored to attain the right for women to vote and run for office. Many Filipino men were opposed to the idea, and held fast to the traditional view that ...
Prior to the Spanish occupation, non-labeled transgender women or feminine men usually (but not always) became babaylan, which are traditionally non-cis-women.Journal entries of Spanish colonizers describe "men who lived as women, and seen as women in the society" in reference to shamans of the animistic-polytheistic indigenous Philippine folk religions.
Status: In force. The Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act of 2012, also known as the Reproductive Health Law or RH Law, and officially designated as Republic Act No. 10354, is a Philippine law that provides universal access to methods of contraception, fertility control, sexual education, and maternal care.
Profession. Barrister. politician. judge. Sir Edward Coke (/ kʊk / CUUK, formerly / kuːk /; 1 February 1552 – 3 September 1634) [ 1 ] was an English barrister, judge, and politician. He is often considered the greatest jurist of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras. [ 2 ] Born into an upper-class family, Coke was educated at Trinity College ...