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  2. Philippine Commission on Women - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Anti Mail-Order Spouse Act - Wikipedia

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    Status: Repealed. The Anti Mail-Order Spouse Act, officially designated as Republic Act 10906, is a Philippine law that prohibits the business of organizing or facilitating marriages between Filipinas, colloquially called " mail-order brides ", and foreign men. It replaced a 1990 law, the Anti Mail-Order Bride Law, enacted by the Congress of ...

  4. Violence against women in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    The Women in Nation Building Act advocates for the equal treatment of women and men in Philippine society. It likewise promotes the equal importance of women in the building of the Philippine nation. The NCRFW was renamed to the Philippine Commission on Women upon the enactment of RA 9710 (or the Magna Carta of Women).

  5. Women's rights in Philippines - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Miriam Defensor Santiago - Wikipedia

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    Magna Carta of Women, which protected the rights of women in the country. [70] Unified Student Financial Assistance System for Tertiary Education (Unifast) Act, which enhanced the educational system in the country, paving way for the intellectual revolution in urban and rural areas. [71]

  7. Magna Carta - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Bill of rights - Wikipedia

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    An example is Magna Carta, an English legal charter agreed between the King and his barons in 1215. [2] In the early modern period , there was renewed interest in Magna Carta . [ 3 ] [ 4 ] English common law judge Sir Edward Coke revived the idea of rights based on citizenship (see history of citizenship ) by arguing that Englishmen had ...

  9. 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 ...