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The Code of Muslim Personal Laws, otherwise known as Presidential Decree No. 1083, was enacted by President Ferdinand Marcos on February 7, 1977. The decree was enacted upon the advice of the now-defunct Commission on National Integration since Muslims (along with non-Christian indigenous peoples) would have only been allowed to get married under their customs and traditions until 1980 as ...
Violence against women in the Philippines includes different forms of gender-based violence. 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 ."
The law in all parts of the kingdom criminalises rape, including spousal rape, and domestic violence. The penalty is imprisonment not exceeding 12 years, a fine not exceeding 78 thousand euros ($93,600), or both. In case of violence against a spouse, the penalty for various forms of abuse can be increased by one-third. [316]
Marital rape – non-consensual sex in which the perpetrator is the victim's spouse, and as such, is a form of domestic violence, and sexual abuse. Although repudiated by international conventions and increasingly criminalized, in many countries, spousal rape either remains legal, or is illegal but widely tolerated and accepted as a husband's ...
The Family Code provides that Philippine courts can recognize any divorce obtained by Filipinos from foreign spouses overseas for as along as the proceeding is valid under the law of the foreign spouse's country. In addition, the regional trial court can take cognizance of a conjunctive petition for declaration of the capacity to remarry.
The government of the Philippines (Filipino: Pamahalaan ng Pilipinas) has three interdependent branches: the legislative, executive, and judicial branches.The Philippines is governed as a unitary state under a presidential representative and democratic constitutional republic in which the president functions as both the head of state and the head of government of the country within a pluriform ...
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is domestic violence by a current or former spouse or partner in an intimate relationship against the other spouse or partner. [1] [2] IPV can take a number of forms, including physical, verbal, emotional, economic and sexual abuse.
One quarter of women ever-married aged 15–49, reported having experienced at any point emotional, physical, and/or sexual violence from their spouse. [28] Of women who had experienced any form of physical or sexual violence, 30% of them sought help in response to that violence. [29] While pregnant, 4% of women aged 15–49 experienced ...