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How much do nurses in the Philippines earn?
The nature of health workers’ jobs is such that they are put at risk of contracting any disease, including the deadly COVID-19.
Despite low pay, 27-year-old Mae* chooses to stay in the profession to help save lives.
“The pay is never enough, dahil (...)
MANILA - It is disturbing and infuriating to hear President Rodrigo Duterte “brag” about attempting in his teen years to rape a housekeeper, women’s rights advocates said Sunday.
Duterte recounted in a speech how he confessed to a priest of the Catholic school he was attending, who would later (...)
Exclusive: new controversy as it emerges Philippine commission ruled in Aimee Santos’s favour
An Oxfam employee who was sexually assaulted by a colleague in the Philippines was “constructively dismissed” less than a year later, according to a labour commission decision seen by the Guardian. (...)
The Department of Health in the Philippines has said it will investigate the actions of four milk formula companies regarding the illegal and clandestine methods used to market products to mothers.
Officials in the Department of Health (DOH) confirmed they had called an emergency meeting and (...)
Struggles, advances, and challenges during 100 years of the women’s struggle.
Historical roots and evolution of the feminist movement
The dynamic women’s movement in the Philippines is the product of a long history of struggle and participation in various historical conjunctures. As a nation (...)
Philippine president makes quip before Filipino diplomats, the latest in a string of incidents critics call sexist.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte made another joke about rape, condemning the crime while saying he would congratulate a rapist who could carry out his crime on an (...)
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 (...)
‘If you had raped three, I will admit it, that’s on me’ Philippines president tells soldiers on Mindanao island where he has imposed martial law.
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has sought to reassure soldiers who might be accused of committing abuses under martial law and jokingly said (...)
Manila — For Philippine women’s organizations, the 2017 commemoration of International Women’s Day was a critical action by and on behalf of Filipino women. As the March 8 statement signed by more than 30 organizations, including Focus on the Global South, said, “Filipino women from across all (...)
In commemoration of the International Women’s Day, the FDC Women’s Committee launches the campaign on Tax Justice for Women’s Rights. Below is the press statement. PRESS STATEMENT
March 7, 2017 ‘BUWIS NA DI MAKATARUNGAN, PASAN NG KABABAIHAN. PAHIRAP SA MAMAMAYAN!’ TAX INJUSTICE, A BURDEN OF (...)
Filipino women from across all sectors have fought long and tough struggles — and have won many. In the past decades, we asserted for better working conditions for workers, pushed for lands for farmers and decent housing for the urban poor, fought and brought down a dictatorship, claimed our (...)
The countdown to end ENDO and contractualization continues: 26 days. Now it’s the turn of women workers to demand from Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III the immediate release of a new department order ending contractualization in all its forms, a couple of days before International Women’s (...)
President Duterte believes families should be restricted to three children to help reduce poverty.
Over six million women living in poverty-stricken areas of the Philippines are to be given free contraception to reduce unplanned pregnancies, according to President Rodrigo Duterte.
A drive by (...)
SLUT-SHAMING IS AN ASSAULT ON ALL WOMEN We, the WOMEN WRITERS IN MEDIA NOW, are outraged.
The intent of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, supported by the Secretary of Justice, to show during a House hearing the video, purportedly of a woman senator having sex, is vile, sexist, (...)
The groups also condemn the spate of extrajudicial killings in the country, saying they are reminded of the dark days of Martial Law
MANILA, Philippines – Various women’s organizations expressed their support for Senator Leila De Lima after President Rodrigo Duterte issued scathing personal (...)
We, women, celebrate the resolution of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) that incoming President Rodrigo Duterte violated the Magna Carta of Women when he made debasing remarks on rape and abuse of a domestic worker, kissed female supporters and held them on his lap in public, to the women’s (...)
Filipino presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte has been roundly condemned after a video surfaced of him joking about an Australian rape victim. The lay minister was raped and murdered in the country in 1989.
Rodrigo Duterte is shown in a YouTube video telling a crowd of laughing supporters at (...)
Women workers and poor led by the labor partylist group Partido Manggagawa (PM) marched in Mall of Asia and Mendiola today together with other feminist organizations to commemorate International Women’s Day.
The agonies of having to endure ages of physical and emotional violence and living (...)
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 (...)
World March of Women-Pilipinas Statement on the 2nd anniversary of the Rana Plaza Tragedy in Bangladesh.
Dhaka, Savar Building Collapse
WE observe today, April 24, the 2nd anniversary of what is dubbed as the world’s worst industrial accident to hit the garment industry, when the eight-story (...)
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