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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 ...
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 ...
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. While there is agreement about its ...
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.
Pacem in terris. Pacem in terris (lit. 'Peace on Earth') is a papal encyclical issued by Pope John XXIII on 11 April 1963, on the rights and obligations of people and their states, as well as proper interstate relations. It emphasizes human dignity and human equality in endorsing women's rights, nuclear nonproliferation and the United Nations.
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.
Janette Garin. Janette Loreto Garin (born Janette Petilla Loreto; December 11, 1972) is a Filipina physician and politician who, since 2019, has been serving as the Representative for Iloilo 's 1st district, a position she previously served in from 2004 to 2013. She was the Secretary of Health from 2015 to 2016 in the administration of ...
Two women in their 80s have been charged with criminal damage after the glass around the Magna Carta at the British Library was attacked. Reverend Sue Parfitt, 82, from Bristol, and Judith Bruce ...