Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by BELLO Walden
The RH Law marks its 10th year – but there is unfinished business when it comes to promoting women’s rights and gender equality
The Reproductive Health Law [[https://www.rappler.com/newsbreak/18730-rh-law-the-long-and-rough-road] marks the 10th year of its passage by Congress on December 17. (...)
, by LASCO Gideon
We hardly talked about abortion when I was in medical school, but its reality could not be denied in our OB-GYN rotation, when women came to the emergency room, distraught and pale, with the complications of unsafe abortion practices, leading them to sepsis and, oftentimes, death. Alas, I have (...)
, by Laban ng Masa
On September 3, 2021, Vice President Leni Robredo stated in an interview with Rappler Philippines that she was in favor of same-sex unions but rejected decriminalizing abortion. “I have always been against abortion,” she said and added that health services and institutions should be strengthened (...)
, by SPERA Claudine
In a country where more than 65% of women don’t use contraceptives and terminating pregnancy is illegal, ‘torturous’ practices are often the only option.
Outside the gates of Manila’s Quiapo church, deals are being done. Bitter herbs and abortion medication are traded illegally.
Next to an (...)
, by Likhaan Center for Women’s Health
National Report on Building New Constituencies for Women’s SRHR: Interlinkages Between Religion and SRHR.
Executive Summary
The Catholic Church has established and sustained significant power over Philippine politics and society in the past—through Spanish rule from the 16 century towards the (...)
, by PUNAY Edu
MANILA, Philippines - The Supreme Court (SC) has set a dangerous precedent in striking down key provisions of the controversial Reproductive Health (RH) Law or the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act, according to Associate Justice Marvic Leonen.
In his dissenting opinion, (...)
, by BELLO Walden
The bishops should have realized it was only a matter of time. The surveys were unanimous in chronicling a steady rise in the majority supporting family planning and government support for it. More and more from all classes had come to accept that family size had a direct bearing on poverty (...)
, by Partido Manggagawa, SDK (Re-established)
Around 200 women members of the Partido ng Manggagawa (PM) joined the Reproductive Health Advocacy Network (RHAN) rally held at Mendiola this morning to, once again, call on President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III to include the RH bill in his priority legislations for this Monday’s (July 25) SONA. (...)
, by Kaisa Ka
Press Release
February 14, 2011
Contact Person: Lotlot D. Requizo # 09178606650
KAISA KA to Join Pro-RH Rally at Congress
KAISA KA, a transformational, multi-sector national organization of women is joining a rally organized by Reproductive Health Advocacy Network (RHAN) at the South Gate (...)
, by Kaisa Ka
Press Statement September 29, 2010
KAISA KA Says President Aquino Should Not Buckle amid Pressure on RH
While the leaders of the Catholic Church are attacking President Aquino for his stand on birth control, we in the feminist organization KAISA KA are glad and supportive of his stand (...)
The abortion scare is truly just a scare. The religious right would use all kinds of scare tactics and disinformation by claiming that contraceptives are abortifacients and that the reproductive health care bill (RH bill) promotes abortion. They have long been using these arguments in public (...)
, by Kaisa Ka, SUAREZ-PINLAC Virginia
July 1,2010
Dear P. Noy Aquino:
We apologize for starting this letter on an extremely personal note, but we cannot help but notice that your four sisters have eight children among them – indicating that they must have fully availed themselves, and justly so, of their reproductive rights; and (...)
, by Welga ng Kababaihan
A day before several lawmakers deliver their respective sponsorship speeches on the controversial bill promoting the use of both artificial and natural means of family planning, among others, a network of more than 50 non-government and people’s organizations advocating women’s and people’s (...)
, by TURABIN-HATAMAN Sitti Djalia
Paper presented at the 10th National Conference of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), October 4-6, 2005, Heritage Hotel, Manila.
Basilan Province is an island 30 minutes away by sea from mainland Zamboanga City. It has a total land area of approximately 1,279 (...)
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