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[Press Release] Kapangyarihan ng Kababaihan, Women’s Response to Duterte | World March of Women
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On the Occasion of March 8 Celebration
Kapangyarihan ng Kababaihan, Women’s Response to Duterte
Over one hundred and fifty (150) women showed up at Plaza Miranda this morning beating drums, chanting “Kami ay Peminista, Hindi Terorista.”
“The pandemic has shown the strength of Filipino women not only to cope with but overcome the multiple responsibilities we carry and roles we undertake in the family and household, in the workplace, at the frontlines of the fight against COVID-19, in various civic and political spaces despite the threat of the virus and while limited by the adherence to health protocols,” said Ana Maria Nemenzo, National Coordinator of WomanHealth Philippines.
On the other hand, Jean Enriquez, Executive Director of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women – Asia Pacific (CATW-AP) and National Coordinator of World March of Women (WMW), asserted that “the health crisis, too, has further unmasked the Duterte regime.” “It has exposed its weak leadership—with its failure in governance and to address the social-economic crises exacerbated by the pandemic,” according to the WMW statement.“It could only cover up this failure with increased brutality through its security forces, as seen in police harassment of ordinary people while those in authority could violate social and health protocols with impunity, in terrorist-tagging that has led to the murder of activists and civilians, in intensified military operations among urban and rural communities, and in repeatedly dismissing women’s capacity for leadership,” added Enriquez.
“Babae and hardest hit ng pandemya. Siya rin ang matapang napumapasan ng mahihirap na trabaho sa frontlines, kahit tanggalanng trabaho ang dala ng pandemya,” said Judy Ann Chan-Miranda of Partido Manggagawa. More women lost their jobs compared to men, 1.7 times more in most countries, according to the International Labor Organization. In a developing country such as the Philippines, where majority of women work in the informal or invisible sector, they have been the most affected, explained Miranda.
“Sa panahon ng ganitong krisis, nakakalungkot na ang perspektibang kasarian ang napagwawalang-bahala. Sa pag-aayos ng mgaproblema ng bansa, mahalaga na tugunan ang di-pagkakapantay-pantay na nararanasan ng kababaihan,” asserted Myrna Jimenezof Sarilaya. It is extremely important that women are not left behind during this pandemic. For us, there is really no better time to get involved and fight for our rights but now,” Jimenez added.
Meanwhile, the pandemic has aggravated other social-political issues in the country especially those affecting and confronted by indigenous peoples.
“The pandemic and climate change have worsened food insecurity among indigenous communities,” said Judy Pasimio of LILAK (Purple Action for Indigenous Women’s Rights). Indigenous women continue to defend their lands and rights, as food providers and defenders of women human rights, against destructive mining operations, industrial plantations, and mega-dams—industries which destroy food sources of indigenous and rural communities, according to Pasimio. “While they face state accusations that they are terrorists or sympathizers of terrorists, they continue to care for their communities and to struggle,” she added. “Amidst the pandemic, they continue to fight,” said Pasimio.
“But opposite the kind of power that the Duterte regime wields—the kind that oppresses and even kills, the kind that steps on the interest of ordinary people, mocks and manipulates legitimate grievances of the public, promotes and entrenches the political and economic elite, and the kind that betrays national interest to connive with foreign interest—is woman power, the kind that liberates from oppression, engenders social-economic and political equality, fights against all forms of discrimination and marginalization, and promotes human dignity,” according to the WMW statement. “Feminism is the kind of power that is not afraid; that emboldens women to be at the frontlines, to be leaders and warriors, to dream, fight for, and realize genuine change,” the grassroots feminist movement added. The action included survivors of prostitution and women relatives of extra-judicial killings, all wearing purple and chanting “Kamingmga Babae, Laging Umaabante.”
“We, women together with a broader labor movement would like our government to invest their energy and resources to develop a robust public employment program,” said Michelle Lising, Chairperson of Sentro Women’s Council. “This is needed to address the deep economic crisis, and such policies should include climate jobs, employment and income guarantees,” added Lising.
The Center for Migrant Advocacy (CMA) is also calling for more long-term support and protection for overseas Filipino workers and migrants, among whom majority of women have been the most adversely affected by the pandemic and corresponding lockdowns in countries around the globe. “There should be more long-term assistance for our Filipinos working abroad who were displaced by the pandemic as well as policies that will ensure for their sustainable protection especially against abuse of women,” said Ellene Sana, Executive Director of CMA.
“Five years after Rodrigo Duterte got elected as president, women’s situation in the Philippines worsened,” claimed Jelen Paclarin, Women’s Legal and Human Rights Bureau (WLB). “Women who criticized Duterte’s blatant remarks and wrongdoings have experienced denigration, vilification, and became the central topic of his sexist jokes to entertain people or divert the issue fired at him,” added Paclarin. According to WLB, with this kind of leadership and pronouncements, Duterte has solidified that stereotyping, shaming, and silencing women is normal and acceptable in our society. “President Duterte continues to disregard the rights of women as guaranteed by the 1987 PhilippineConstitution and their important role in nation-building,” said Paclarin.
Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA) Executive Director Liza Garcia also shared the significance of online spaces in women’s rights: “Violence against women committed online have spiked in 2020 by up to 165%, based on our data mapping results: Women are still being targeted with sextortion, non-consensual circulation of intimate images, and sexual threats. Reports of deepfaked videos and photos of women, and disinformation against women human rights defenders also continue to surface.” “These persistent threats impede women from fully exercising online the same human rights that they have offline,” according to Garcia. “If left unaddressed, the gender gaps and existing violence online is tantamount to allowing the ICTs to be just as oppressive as the many forces offline that hinder women from progress,” she said. “Not only is a VAW-free Internet vital to women’s meaningful connectivity, it is also part and parcel of making safe spaces for women and supporting the gender equality that we are all striving towards,” added Garcia.
#BabaeMakapangyarihan was the hashtag used by the group in posting International Women’s Day captions.
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[Event] #BabaeMakapangyarihan | World March Of Women
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Dalhin po ang inyong tambol o iba pang percussion instruments sa Marso 8, ika 9 ng umaga sa Plaza Miranda 💜🎶
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[Press Release] Women Condemn Olongapo Court Order to Release Pemberton -WMW-Pilipinas
Women Condemn Olongapo Court Order to Release Pemberton
The World March of Women – Pilipinas, Ganda Filipinas and the lawyer of Jennifer Laude’s family underscored the irony of the court order to release US Marine Joseph Scott Pemberton when the country is about to commemorate the removal of the US bases.
“The 16th of September 1991 was a proud moment in our history as a sovereign nation,” according to WMW – Pilipinas. Even after the urging of then President Corazon Aquino to renew the RP-US Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Peace, twelve (12) senators rejected the proposed agreement which would have given another 10 years to American control over Subic Naval Base. This year’s commemoration of that historic event will now be marred by the recent hasty decision of the Olongapo regional trial court to release Lance Corporal Joseph Scott Pemberton owing to his alleged ‘good conduct’ without having fully served his sentence.
This puts into question our government’s ability to defend its own citizens vis-à-vis foreign power in our own territory, according to the feminist grassroots movement, WMW-Pilipinas.
On December 1, 2015, Pemberton was sentenced from six (6) to twelve (12) years in prison for homicide after killing transwoman Jennifer Laude on October 11, 2014, with Laude’s non-disclosure of her gender identity supposedly a mitigating factor. He has been serving this sentence in a private facility within Camp Aguinaldo and not in National Bilibid Prison where individuals who committed such crime should be. This facility is supposedly under the jurisdiction of the US government through the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) passed by the Philippine Senate in 1999 and operationalized in 2014 when President Benigno Aquino III signed the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA).
“That the Motion for Release based on alleged good conduct was filed only in July 2020, the hearing on the motion happening on August 26th, and the order for release given on September 1st while Laude’s lawyer, Virginia Lacsa Suarez, was only about to file her opposition, clearly shows how fast our own court and agencies, namely the Bureau of Correction which endorsed the motion, can act in the service of a foreign power and not in the interest of the Filipino people,” said Ana Maria Nemenzo, National Coordinator of WomanHealth Philippines.
For Laude’s family and lawyer, what happened is clearly an injustice. “The Order of Release has no material basis at all. By his own motion, and invoking the VFA, he was already given the privilege of serving his sentence solo and comfortably in a specially-made facility in Camp Aguinaldo. Thus, his conduct was never put to test as he has never joined other convicts. Good conduct is not a matter of right. It is a privilege subject to the presentation of proof and recommendation of actual good conduct. Otherwise, this is subject to abuse and can be circumvented easily,” said lawyer Suarez.
Jean Enriquez, Executive Director of the Coalition Against Trafficking of Women-Asia Pacific (CATW-AP) said that “This court order will dissuade victim-survivors of violence among us from pursuing justice, since privileged perpetrators will be protected in Camp Aguinaldo and their sentence commuted.” For the victim-survivors of violence and the LGBTQIA+ community, that perpetrators like Pemberton could evade our own laws further instills uncertainty and doubt if they can achieve justice.
“This is a tragic reminder of how little trans lives truly matter not only in the US but as well as in its former colonies,” said Naomi Fontanos, Executive Director of Gender and Development Advocates (GANDA) Filipinas. “It is ironic that Pemberton’s early release is happening at a time when the US is going through a reckoning with its racist history,” Fontanos lamented. “Pemberton’s early release is proof of the power of white supremacy institutionalized through America’s imperialistic military that has destroyed the many lives of people of color including the lives of trans women of color like Jennifer Laude,” she further said. “Pemberton & the violent military institution he represents should be reminded that without justice, there will be no peace,” added Fontanos.
“Pemberton’s early release is an injustice to Jennifer Laude, to the women, LGBTQIA+, and allies, who fought tooth and nail for his conviction,” echoed Judy Afan Pasimio of LILAK (Purple Action for Indigenous Women’s Rights). “This is evidence that the government’s exclamations against the US and the VFA are hollow and will protect no Filipino women against abuse and crime from foreign visitors,” Pasimio said.
“Such infringement on our sovereignty can only be prevented if we reject treaties such as the Visiting Forces Agreement that continually allows powers like the United States to have their way in our own land,” declared WMW-Pilipinas.
According to the women and trans groups, such travesty of justice against the LGBTQIA+ community and victim-survivors of sexual assault, rape, and other forms of violence can only be stopped if our courts and the government uphold the law to genuinely protect them from perpetrators and criminal.
Other members of WMW-Pilipinas include Bagong Kamalayan Prostitution Survivors’ Collective, Center for Migrant Advocacy (CMA), Foundation for Media Alternative (FMA), KAISA KA, Pambansang Koalisyon ng Kababaihan sa Kanayunan (PKKK), Partido Manggagawa – Women, SARILAYA, Sentro ng mga Nagkakaisa at Progresibong Manggagawa (SENTRO) – Women, Women’s Legal and Human Rights Bureau (WLB).
The groups will hold an online rally tomorrow, September 4, 2020 at 3-4PM to protest the fast-tracked release order in favor of the convicted killer of transwoman Jennifer Laude.
It will be aired on the facebook pages of World March of Women – Pilipinas, GANDA Filipinas, Justice for Jennifer Laude, CATW-AP, LILAK, Youth and Students Advancing Gender Equality (YSAGE) and others.
Contact Persons:
Naomi Fontanos, 09266700411
Jean Enriquez, 09778105326
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[Video] Women in the Frontlines, Usapang Kababaihan: VAW, Aksiyunan at Tugunan -WMW
Women in the Frontlines
Usapang Kababaihan: VAW, Aksiyunan at Tugunan
Host: Clarissa Militante
Guests:
Catherine Nañola-Taleño, Haven for Women
Elgin Mazo, Inter-Agency Council on Violence Against Women and Their Children
Atty. Krissi Shafina Twyla Rubin, Commission on Human Rights
Jeanette Ampog, Talikala, Inc.
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[Statement] Women Occupy Spaces in the face of Shrinking Democracy -World March of Women – Pilipinas
Statement on International Women’s Day 2020
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Eleven days ago, the Senate passed the Anti-Terrorism Bill which repeals the Human Security Act (HSA) of 2007, but extends the detention of a suspect following warrantless arrest to fourteen (14) days, from a maximum of three (3) days provided in the HSA. The said bill authored by Sen. Panfilo Lacson also removed the penalty of half a million pesos against erring law enforcers. Sec. 16 of the anti-terrorism bill extended the period for surveillance of suspect’s communications from 30 days to 60 days, which can be extended further by 30 days.
Given the above provisions and the broad definition of punishable acts, the proposed law is very prone to abuse and can be directed towards civil society actors who forward criticism, protest government policies and pronouncements, and defend fundamental human rights. Secretary of Defense Delfin Lorenzana and Senate President Vicente Sotto III, in fact, stated that the passage of the bill would make martial law unnecessary.
The bill supplements Executive Order 70 which was issued by President Rodrigo Duterte in December 2018 and Proclamation 216 of 2017 which suspends the writ of habeas corpus in Mindanao. In the past years, both have been used by state forces not in protecting the people, but in making them more insecure by labeling human rights organizations as ‘dangerous’ that people should stay away from. Killings and illegal arrests against human rights defenders rose in number. Women report sexual abuse by soldiers only to non-government actors for fear of reprisal. Repression of unions and legitimate organizations have been intensifying in the rural areas, while killings and illegal arrests continue in the metropolis and surrounding provinces.
Following EO 70, the Police Regional Office in Region III (PRO3) has started setting up Joint Industrial Peace and Concern Offices (JIPCO) in special economic and freeport zones in Central Luzon, allegedly to prevent militant labor groups from organizing workers’ union in factories and other business establishments. This directly contravenes union rights protected by international human rights law and the national constitution, in the area where labor rights violations are very high. This aggravates the fact that since Duterte came to power, 48 workers and unionists have been killed, including eight (8) women.
Quo warranto has been used to remove the Supreme Court Chief Justice, and quo warranto is now being used against the franchise of a major media network.
Since the government has been headed by a mayor that got away with human rights abuses in Davao, feminist and human rights groups have led public criticism and mass actions to protest the further usurpation by the executive head of the domain of the courts and the legislative branch, as well as the encouragement of killings of the poor, activists and religious, and of abuses against women. Social movements have also been in the forefront of protesting economic policies that has worsened the economic conditions of the poorest, such as the TRAIN Law of 2017, the Rice Tariffication Law of 2019, and the unbridled entry of foreign, particularly Chinese, investors in the power, transport, communication and in the extraction of our natural resources. The Kaliwa Dam project has been revived by the Duterte government and backed by a US$211-million loan from China’s Export-Import Bank.
Clearly, the recent laws are meant to legitimize the silencing of increasing criticism against this government. Worse, the laws seem like a “crony virus” that has facilitated the accumulation of profits by the elite and the imperial power closest to the President to be easier. A case in point is Davao tycoon Dennis Uy who was cleared of smuggling charges and has ventured into media and telecom, after partnering with China Telecommunications Corp., aggressively bagging government’s infrastructure contracts, and ABS-CBN’s chief digital officer transferring to Uy’s media arm, while the franchise of the TV network hangs in a balance. Davao-based and the President’s close friend Jojo Soliman is head and CEO of Pure Rice Milling Corp, among 174 companies eager on rice importation. The Philippines is now the second-largest importer of rice in the world, likely to replace China soon, according to experts. In addition, we are witness to the continued junking of ill-gotten wealth cases against the Marcoses, whom the President admitted being among his presidential campaign donors.
Since EO 70 was passed, the Pambansang Koalisyon ng Kababaihan sa Kanayunan (PKKK) reported that their members in the rural areas were told not to affiliate themselves with women’s rights groups, yet they see the need to rise and protest against the loss of income due to the unregulated entry of imported rice.
Sentro ng Nagkakaisa at Progresibong Manggagawa (SENTRO) reported that soldiers oriented workers in a major company where they organize and told not to join unions affiliated with SENTRO, tagging the latter as a communist.
Meanwhile, spaces continue to shrink for women at the barangay levels as local governments actively distribute propaganda materials disparaging women’s rights groups. This creates a chilling effect for women activists working daily to assist widows of extra-judicial killing victims and empowering migrants’ families, women farmers and indigenous women.
In 2019, 43 human rights defenders were killed in the Philippines, putting our country as second deadliest all over the world. Most of those killed are environmental and indigenous peoples’ rights defenders. The repressive policies work in favor of the big mining and dam construction companies, making it easier for their paid armed groups and soldiers to silence communities.
In the face of all these, our only option is to push back. We need to occupy the political spaces being denied to us, but are rightfully ours as citizens, and as protected by international human rights standards. We must sit down in the streets where we are prevented to protest, in factories where capitalists seek to rake profits unhampered by workers’ demands for rights and living wages, in the fields and indigenous territories where extractivist mining companies, banks, and retailers of imported rice are claiming stakes, in urban poor communities where big sex and drug traffickers seek impunity through killings, to take advantage of the vulnerability of women and their families, in schools where authorities try to stunt the wisdom of brave girls!
Human security for us means freedom from violence, both state and gender-based. Human security means food on our tables, secure jobs and living wages, valuation of women’s work, accessible and quality education, indigenous territories that are free from exploitation, the sustainability of life, and non-commodification of public services, nature, and our bodies! Women shout – NO to Crony Virus, NO to EO 70 and NO to the Anti-Terrorism Bill!
We will show up everywhere, sit down in protest, raise our ladles, pens, fists, and roses as weapons of peace and rising power, against the state and its oligarchy’s weapons of hate and murder. We will resist to live! We will march to transform societies!
WORLD MARCH OF WOMEN – PILIPINAS
Bagong Kamalayan Prostitution Survivors’ Collective
Center for Migrant Advocacy (CMA)
Coalition Against Trafficking in Women – Asia Pacific (CATW-AP)
Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA)
LILAK (Purple Action for Indigenous Women’s Rights)
Pambansang Koalisyon ng Kababaihan Sa Kanayunan (PKKK)
Partido Manggagawa (PM) – Women
SARILAYA
Sentro ng Nagkakaisa at Progresibong Manggagawa (SENTRO) – Women
WomanHealth Philippines
Women’s Legal and Human Rights Bureau (WLB)
Youth and Students Advancing Gender Equality (YSAGE)
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[Video] International Day for the Elimination for Violence Against Women 2019 -WMW
More than 100 women held a flash mob dance in front of Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon City early Friday morning, November 21, 2019 to denounce what they called militarism in campuses, urban, and rural communities. Clad in purple and wearing flower headdresses, they embodied power as they danced to the beat of sticks and drums. “Kapangyarihan sa kababaihan!” (power to women), invoked the dancers, with the aim to humanize, heal, and empower.
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[Statement] International Day for the elimination of violence against women -World March of Women
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World March of Women Statement
International Day for the elimination of violence against women
Kapangyarihan sa kababaihan. Today, we, Filipino women from different sectors, chant these words. Perform this call. Move our bodies as we embody this power to the beat of sticks and drums—to the sound of the same chant, of similar invocations, by our ancestors. By sisters who had come before us who had bravely fought and were vanquished by violence perpetrated by the state, by military might, by misogyny and the culture of impunity.
Kapangyarihan sa kababaihan, we say. Because this kind of power – power with and power within – is what can resist and counter militarism — power over that spawns violence and kills. This is an invocation that aims to humanize, heal, and empower.
Women’s lives are claimed by extra-judicial killings; they are raped in exchange for the life and liberty of their partners, wounded and traumatized by prostitution and economic violence. But we refuse to be cowed. We continue to call for jobs and justice. Kabuhayan, Katarungan – we demand!
Our campuses are no longer for education and free expression but are being militarized. Students, even as young as grade-schoolers, are psychologically intimidated and pressured as they are asked to submit to drug testing. Legitimate protest actions are met with military harassment.
With the government’s Build, Build, Build projects and the ensuing gentrification of Metro Manila and other urban areas, urban poor women and their families are pushed out of their homes and livelihoods. Secure jobs remain elusive.
As rural and indigenous communities fight hunger, poverty, and corporate exploitation of the environment and natural resources, Philippine soldiers paid by our own taxes harass and kill farmers, indigenous leaders, and defenders of the environment.
Women critical of the current administration are either removed from their government positions or jailed, such as in the case of Senator Leila de Lima, who has been in jail for 1000 days without any legitimate or justifiable case and other women political prisoners persecuted because of political beliefs.
With our steps, with every movement of our bodies, with our sisterhood, we claim:
Kabuhayan, katarungan!
Edukasyon, hindi militarismo!
Pabahay, hindi militarismo!
Bigas, hindi militarismo!
Kapangyarihan sa kababaihan. Hah! We exhale our sighs and anguish. Hah! We breathe in the memories of women and children who had fallen because of the war on drugs and other forms of state violence. Hah! We resist and fight militarism and other forces of fascism.
Hah! Kababaihan! May Kapangyarihan!
Signatories:
Bagong Kamalayan Prostitution Survivors’ Collective
Buklod Center – Olongapo
Center for Migrant Advocacy, Phils. Inc.
Coalition Against Trafficking in Women – Asia Pacific (CATW-AP)
Development Action for Women Network (DAWN)
Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA)
In Defense of Human Rights and Dignity Movement
LILAK (Purple Action for Indigenous Women’s Rights)
Philippine Alliance of Human Rights Advocates (PAHRA)
Pambansang Koalisyon ng Kababaihan sa Kanayunan (PKKK)
Partido Manggagawa (PM) – Women
SARILAYA
Sentro ng Nagkakaisa at Progresibong Manggagawa (SENTRO) – Women
Ugnayan ng Samahan sa Parola (USAP)
WomanHealth Philippines
Women’s Legal and Human Rights Bureau (WLB)
World March of Women (WMW) – Pilipinas
#EndVAWPh
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[Statement] No to Sanchez’s release! -World March of Women – Pilipinas
World March of Women – Pilipinas Statement
Mayor Antonio Sanchez, convicted rapist, and murderer, clearly did not demonstrate good behavior while in jail. He was found to be in possession of illegal drugs in 2006. After 4 years, he was caught with a kilogram of shabu hidden in a Virgin Mary statue. And in 2015, an air conditioning unit and flat-screen TV were seized from his cell.
It is perhaps not a coincidence that Salvador Panelo, now President Rodrigo Duterte’s chief legal counsel, was one of Sanchez’s defense lawyers in the 1993 rape-murder case of University of the Philippines Los Baños student Eileen Sarmenta and the death of companion Allan Gomez. Neither is it a coincidence that this threat of release of Calauan Mayor is happening under the Bureau of Corrections chief Nicanor Faeldon, who was disgraced following the congressional hearings on the smuggling of P6.4-billion worth of shabu in 2017.
We assert that Sanchez should serve his full seven terms of multiple sentences. Let not this administration use this controversy to push for capital punishment, which has victimized the poor and innocent in the past. Just the administration of accountability is needed to deter similar crimes, not the death penalty. This has been proven time and again in various states, and by sociological studies.
No to Sanchez’s release!
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[Statement] International Women’s Day 2019: Celebrating Hard-won Victories; Affirming the Women’s Role in the Forefront of Women‘s and Peoples’ Struggles -WMW
Statement of the World March of Women – Pilipinas
International Women’s Day 2019: Celebrating Hard-won Victories; Affirming the Women’s Role in the Forefront of Women‘s and Peoples’ Struggles
Through our mass actions, public gatherings, and different forms of protest, we are commemorating this year’s International Women’s Day as an occasion to celebrate the victories that we have won and to affirm our continuing fight against forces that set us back in our hard-won struggles—forces of patriarchy, of misogyny, as embodied by President Duterte himself, his government, and apparatuses of the state.
Women and women’s movements are under attack worldwide by conservative, authoritarian, misogynistic—and even rogue—regimes. In the Philippines, President Duterte has been all out in his attack on women even before the start of his government—in his remarks that encouraged sexual violence of women and have debased women’s place in the family, community, and society; in his actions that have emboldened his fellow misogynists in government, in the private/business sector, among ordinary folk; in his policies that rob us of our human rights—even that most basic of rights, the right to live and live with dignity.
Duterte’s government has used and continues to use and conspire with the state apparatuses in its attack on women’s social, political, and economic rights:
– the police force in the execution of the war on drugs that have resulted in extra-judicial killings of more than 20,000 people in the estimates of human rights organizations, a war on drugs that is really a war on the poor aimed at ‘cleaning up’ urban poor communities and freeing these spaces that are now intended for private and commercial sector development;
– the military in its implementation of martial law in Mindanao and in bombing Marawi, a war that have also cost the lives, shelter and livelihood of innocent Muslims and indigenous peoples, a war that is also underpinned by business interests whose goal is to control the natural and economic resources of the region;
– still the military in its counter-insurgency and anti-terrorist campaigns which are being used to justify the attacks and harassments of activists and human rights defenders; and killings of community and indigenous leaders fighting for their lands, claiming they were legitimate military operations;
– the legislature in its efforts to change the Constitution in order to weaken, if not erase, its human rights provisions and open up the country’s resources to full foreign ownership and control
– still the legislature in pushing for laws that would renege on the country’s previous commitments to human rights, such as the proposed lowering of minimum age for criminal responsibility, inaction to amend the Anti-Rape Law and place lack of consent at its centre, inaction on the anti-prostitution bill that would shift accountability from prostituted persons onto pimps and buyers;
– the legislature in liberalizing imports through rice tarrification or RA 11203, an anti-farmer law that has brought the rice industry to its deathbed, wherein big corporations only stand to benefit in importing unlimited volumes rice, when what is needed is the support to local production and not to importation;
– the business/corporate sector in collusion with legislators and politicians in ensuring that the anti-ENDO law will not pass;
– the bureaucracy, such as the Department of Agrarian Reform, in overturning the gains of the agrarian reform law by allowing more land conversions.
As we continue to confront these assaults on women’s rights, victories, and advocacies, we want this International Women’s Day to be a day to affirm our role in the forefront of the peoples’ struggles. We have witnessed recently the fruit of more than two decades of work, particularly by those from the labor sector, in the signing into law of the Extended Maternity Leave and Universal Health Coverage. But we shall still press forward as women and hand-in-hand with people’s organizations and broader social movements in defending the Constitution and fighting charter change; in putting a stop to this government’s misogyny and violence against women; in winning legislative advocacies; in ensuring that the coming elections will truly be an opportunity to advance women’s and the people’s social, economic, and political rights, and not the selfish agenda of this administration.
Bagong Kamalayan Prostitution Survivors’ Collective, Inc.
BUKLOD Olongapo
Center for Migrant Advocacy (CMA)
Coalition Against Trafficking In Women – Asia Pacific (CATW-AP)
Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA)
Lilak (Purple Action for Indigenous Women’s Rights)
National Rural Women Coalition (PKKK)
Partido Manggagawa – Women
Sarilaya
Sentro ng mga Nagkakaisa at Progresibong Manggagawa – Sentro – Women
WomanHealth Philippines
Women’s Legal and Human Rights Bureau – WLB
Youth and Students Advancing Gender Equality – YSAGE
World March of Women – Pilipinas
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[Press Release] Women’s Groups Collectively Call for Justice and a Stop to Violence -WMW
Women’s Groups Collectively Call for Justice and a Stop to Violence
Two days before the world marks the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (VAW), over five hundred (500) women protested this morning, at Welcome Rotonda in the boundary of Quezon City and Manila.
Women leaders belonging to the World March of Women – Pilipinas donned Ang Probinsyano outfits to denounce the denial by the Philippine National Police (PNP) that the sex-for-freedom scheme is not a widespread practice in the institution. “Especially in urban poor areas, there has been no let-up in government’s war on drugs through nightly executions since Duterte came to power in 2016,” said Ana Maria R. Nemenzo, National Coordinator of WomanHealth Philippines.
“Despite PNP’s denial, the sex for freedom scheme of the PNP is unsurprising given their commander-in-chief’s misogynistic attitude that aggravates the normalization of sexual violence in Filipino’s everyday culture. Meanwhile, state violence persists especially against human rights defenders, workers and their leaders, members of indigenous communities, women community leaders, and political activists who continue to expose and resist government’s total disregard of human rights,” added Jelen Paclarin, Executive Director of Women’s Legal and Human Rights Bureau (WLB).
Jean Enriquez, Executive Director of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women – Asia Pacific (CATW-AP), assailed the widespread sexual abuse committed against women in exchange for life or liberty of their partners or their own person. “At least nine (9) women have come out in one psychological first aid session we conducted in a group of thirty (30), and they could not file charges because of the impunity shielding police officers who have committed murder or rape in the context of the president’s anti-war campaign,” according to Enriquez.
Lisa Garcia, Executive Director of Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA), stated that “this violence, perpetuated by a patriarchal social structure and exacerbated by Duterte, translates to the online world as well.” She underscored that the same gender-based violence is alive and well in digital spaces and that it impacts women who express their thoughts, identities and sexualities on the internet, as well as human rights defenders who are willing to challenge misogyny online. “Duterte and his administration are trying to normalize a sexist and violent rhetoric that silences those speaking for women’s rights on digital platforms,” added Garcia.
Judy Miranda, Secretary General of Partido Manggagawa (PM), said that another kind of violence is ‘killing’ women—economic violence. “The poor in particular have to constantly pull the continually expanding ends to meet so that their families can survive economic violence,” stated Miranda.
Bernadette Ocampo of SENTRO said that the government has added insult to injury, with inflation at a high 6.4 to 6.7 percent, in approving an incredulously low P25 wage increase. “With a kilo of rice now costing P50, ordinary vegetables which have been the poor’s daily fare now priced at an average of P100 a kilo, galunggong, the so-called poor man’s food, reaching P150 a kilo, and basic jeepney fare at P9, daily survival has become a cruel struggle,” emphasized Ocampo.
Amparo Miciano, Secretary General of Pambansang Koalisyon ng Kababaihan sa Kanayunan (PKKK) stated that violence is also inflicted daily on the lives of small farmers, indigenous peoples, and rural communities by corporations that take away their lands, extract resources, and destroy their environments.
“Violence is a risk that hundreds of thousands of women have been taking and many experience when they migrate for work, especially as domestic workers, internally or abroad, for lack of economic opportunities and decent work in their immediate communities,” lamented Ellene Sana, Executive Director of Center for Migrant Advocacy (CMA). “Poverty is violence; a life of dignity is everyone’s right, not just for those who can afford it,” Sana added.
The women’s groups announced that their series of activities during the 18 Days of Activism against VAW would culminate in protests also on Human Rights Day (Dec. 10) and Anti-Trafficking Day (Dec. 12).
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[Statement] Violence against women is a policy of the Duterte administration -WMW
STATEMENT ON INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY
Photo from CATW-AP FB page
Violence against women is a policy of the Duterte administration. This violence is evident in the president’s economic policies, his verbal attack on women, and his marginalization of women in power. Today, International Women’s Day 2018, we are telling Mr. Duterte that we’ve had enough of these. We are rising, resisting, reclaiming our power!
Mr. Duterte’s war on drugs has left in its trail thousands of widows and orphans, yet he stubbornly refuses to replace the wanton killing of alleged drug users with a more comprehensive, humane rehabilitation program that would be more sustainable. He would rather have the poor killed and their number decimated than come up with an anti-poverty program that would address the problem’s more systemic roots. In a September survey, released in December last year, 47 percent Filipinos (10.4 million) considered themselves poor, while more than 30 percent or more than 7 million Filipinos rated themselves food poor or unable to obtain enough income to feed themselves and their families adequately. In October 2017, there were 134,000 fewer employed Filipinos from last year, owing to the 1.43 million jobs lost in the agricultural sector (Punongbayan, JC. Rappler, Dec. 2017). He could not even put an end to ENDO as promised, thus allowing for the continuing feminization of contractual labor even as his administration pushed for the passing into law and now the implementation of TRAIN, a taxation system that further devalues the income of workers who also have to face increased costs of basic goods and provisions.
Meanwhile, Duterte’s anti-women remarks have always been passed off as “jokes” but they reveal a deep-seated hatred of women; these tirades against women further contribute to the normalization of sexual violence against women and girls. Under his strong-man rule, what the president says is not just mere words but are taken as policy themselves. His promotion of sex tourism with his remark on “42 virgins” as come-on for visitors to the country and his encouragement of the military to shoot the vagina of female rebels (members of the New People’s Army) again constitute violent attacks on women and make us more vulnerable to violence.
Another means of Mr. Duterte to control and punish women is by disempowering women in government positions and in media who refuse to be cowed and are critical of the president’s actions and policies, such as in the case of Senator Leila de Lima, who was imprisoned without due process, and Chief Justice Sereno who is now threatened with an impeachment. Then, there are also Partricia Licuanan of CHED, Pia Ranada and Maria Ressa of Rappler, among others.
Duterte lies when he says he supports women’s rights and their role in development. “Look at what I’ve done in Davao”, he would boast. But he doesn’t talk about how the indigenous women have been made vulnerable as they face the military daily as they fight for their ancestral lands against corporations. He would even pick out mining and plantation companies that can invest in these ancestral lands. These indigenous women face harassments, threats, and leaders are killed.
Unable to solve socio-economic issues, Duterte wants charter change and a shift to federal system of government to further his authoritarian rule. But we, Filipino women, will have no more of Duterte’s duplicity and violence against women in all forms. Kabuhayan, Katarungan, Kapangyarihan sa Kababaihan are rightfully ours. With nothing to gain from this government, we shall rise, resist, and reclaim our bodies, and spaces!
Alyansa Tigil Mina
Amnesty International Philippines
Bagong Kamalayan Prostitution Survivors’ Collective
BUKLOD – Olongapo
Center for Migrant Advocacy, Phils. Inc.
Coalition Against Trafficking in Women – Asia Pacific (CATW-AP)
Focus on the Global South
Foundation for Media Alternatives
Kalipunan ng Kilusang Masa (KALIPUNAN)
LILAK (Purple Action for Indigenouse Women’s Rights)
Pambansang Koalisyon ng Kababaihan Sa Kanayunan
Partido Manggagawa
Philippine Alliance of Human Rights Advocates
Piglas Kababaihan
Sarilaya
Sentro ng mga Nagkakaisa at Progresibong Manggagawa – Sentro
USAD Ateneo de Manila
WomanHealth Philippines
Women’s Legal and Human Rights Bureau – WLB
World March of Women – Pilipinas
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[Video] Lumaban sa sari-saring paraan (Marso 8) -World March of Women
[Video] Lumaban sa sari-saring paraan (Marso 8) -World March Of Women
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[Press Release] Women gathered to mark the International Women’s Day -WMW
Women gathered to mark the International Women’s Day
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Today, over five hundred (500) women gathered early in front of the University of Sto. Tomas to mark the International Women’s Day. This was the starting point of their march towards Mendiola where women affiliated with the World March of Women (WMW)-Pilipinas demanded accountability of the highest in command of the recent tragedy in Mamasapano.
The women’s march was joined by human rights groups Amnesty International, the Philippine Alliance of Human Rights Advocates (PAHRA), labor groups such as SENTRO and Partido ng Manggagawa, all calling for peace and self-determination in Mindanao and an end to the intervention in national affairs by the United States.
“The death of transwoman Jennifer Laude in the hands of a US soldier and the death of the child Sarah Panangulon in Mamasapano, are in the same context of US wars,” stated Jean Enriquez, Philippine Coordinator of the WMW. “Olongapo murder suspect Joseph Scott Pemberton’s ship USS Peleliu ensures amphibious US presence in the Western Pacific, while the PNP SAF operation responsible for Sarah’s murder was clearly sponsored by the US war on terror,” she added.
The group underscored the economic interest of the US in Mindanao in particular, the Philippines and the region in general, as the US “pivot to Asia” strategy started in 2011, or the transfer of military resources to the region, coinciding with a Trans-Pacific Partnership Economic agreement. As a result, “women, children, the environment are considered collateral damages,” according to the WMW statement.
“Jennifer’s murder is a hate crime committed by a US soldier who enjoys the protection of the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA),” declared the group. “Even in court, the unequal relations manifest in allowing the attendance of several US military personnel while limiting Jennifer’s side to only her immediate family and her lawyers,” said their statement.
Carrying roses to symbolize their call for peace, the women also wore pink shirts with the slogan “Pagkain, hindi Bala.” They were demanding that President Benigno Aquino III be also held accountable for his role in the tragedy, as reports clearly pointed to his direct knowledge of the operation, beginning with the appointment of suspended PNP Chief Alan Purisima and strengthened by their correspondence. “Evidently, the only consideration of this operation was the US’s desire to get Marwan and show a positive development in its war on terror, without regard for the Muslim communities that would suffer as well as the peace process that would be compromised,” stated Virgie Suarez, Chairperson, of KAISA KA.
The WMW and supporting organizations lamented that the ongoing military offensive already displaced 8,130 families, with women bearing the most of the hardships and dangers that go with the need to evacuate. Young women and children become more prone to trafficking and prostitution.
They called for a political and economic solution, not war, to resolve the problems in the area. WMW also called for an end to the VFA and all agreements that “tie the country to an unequal defense relation with the US and make the government an accomplice to the US war crimes in its unending quest for world dominance.”
The program in Mendiola ended with the women’s movement’s emblematic song “Bread and Roses” as the women leaders demanded justice for all victims of US militarism. Similar marches were conducted by WMW members in Cavite, Cebu, Davao, and Gen. Santos City.
Participating organizations included Focus on the Global South, Freedom from Debt Coalition, Partido Lakas ng Masa (PLM), LBT groups, anti-trafficking groups Action against Violence and Exploitation, Inc. (ACTVE) and CATW-AP, prostitution survivor groups Bagong Kamalayan and Buklod, migrant groups such as Center for Migrant Advocacy (CMA).
Women’s organizations present were Kababaihan-Pilipinas, KAISA-KA, KAMP, the indigenous women’s group LILAK, Piglas Kababaihan, Pambansang Koalisyon ng Kababaihan sa Kanayunan (PKKK),SARILAYA, Transform Asia, WomanHealth Phils., Women’s Legal and Human Rights Bureau (WLB), Welga ng Kababaihan, Women’s Crisis Center, Youth and Students Advancing Gender Equality (YSAGE), and World March of Women – Pilipinas.
March 8, 2015
Contact Person: Jean Enriquez 0915 3178018
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Statement on International Women’s Day:
The Philippines Should Stop Being US’s Pawn and Warfront
Increased US militarization of the Philippines through the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA), the Asian Pivot and the soon-to-be-operational Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) makes living dangerous and doubly difficult for women and children. This has been made clear by the country’s experience with US’s Operation Enduring Freedom-Philippines. Again, this is the lesson we can glean from the recent events: the murder of trans-woman Jennifer Laude on October 11, 2014, as well as the killing and displacement of Muslim civilians during and after the Mamasapano tragedy on January 25 this year.
The World March of Women-Philippines and other women’s organizations and individuals gathered today, supposedly to celebrate International Women’s Day, bemoan the Philippine government’s acquiescence to all US military trainings, exercises, troop deployment, prepositioning of war material, patrolling of Philippine waters and docking in Philippine ports of US warships and maintenance of military advisers. These are all for US wars.
Jennifer’s murder is not an ordinary crime as the President pictured it to be. It is clearly a hate crime committed by a US soldier who enjoys the protection of the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA), hence the difficulty for Philippine police authorities to serve him an arrest warrant and present him in court for preliminary investigation. While custody comes with criminal jurisdiction over the crime, US authorities have custody of the accused Joseph Scott Pemberton. Even in court, the unequal relations manifest in allowing the attendance of several US military personnel while limiting Jennifer’s side to only her immediate family and her lawyers.
The urgency and secrecy of the special operation to get Marwan, carried-out for the US by the PNP Special Action Force (SAF), particularly the 84th Special Action Company skipped the PNP chain of command and supposedly defied the order by the President and Commander-in-Chief, Benigno C. Aquino III, to coordinate with the AFP. Evidently, the only consideration of this operation was the US’s desire to get Marwan and show a positive development in its war on terror as the ISIS continues to advance in several fronts in the Middle East and even in Europe. Hence, the result: a tragedy that befell 44 members of the PNP-SAF, 18 members of the Moro Islamic
Liberation Front (MILF), at least five Muslim civilians killed, including a girl named “Sarah”, more than a thousand displaced, and a compromised peace process for the Mindanao-Sulu area.
The AFP is now into an offensive against the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF), a splinter group of the MIFF. Already, this has displaced 8,130 families or 30,130 individuals. Women, the elderly and children bear most of the hardships and dangers that go with the need to evacuate. Young women and children become more prone to trafficking and prostitution. The current military offensive could increase the possibility of more terrorism, as extremist groups prey on the economic and social desperation of the communities. This requires a negotiated political solution, not war, to resolve the problems in the area.
The World March of Women is definitely against any action that terrorizes civilians. We condemn the US military that has been dismissing as collateral damage the massive destruction and carnage it has caused all over the world that spawn more terrorist groups. We call on the Aquino government to end the VFA and all agreements that tie the country to an unequal defense relation with the US and make the government an accomplice to the US war crimes in its unending quest for world dominance.
We call for peace and self-determination for Mindanao. We demand justice for all victims of US militarism!
Pagkain, hindi Bala. Give us bread and give us roses.
Justice For All! Accountability at the Highest Level!
Scrap the Visiting Forces Agreement! No To US Intervention!
Signatories:
Action against Violence and Exploitation, Inc. (ACTVE) • Amnesty International Philippines • Bagong Kamalayan • Buklod ng Kababaihan •Coalition Against Trafficking In Women – Asia Pacific (CATW-AP) • Center for Migrant Advocacy (CMA) • Dindi Tan • Focus on the Global South •Freedom from Debt Coalition • Kababaihan-Pilipinas • Kaisa Ka • KAMP •Katutubong Lilak (Purple Action for Women’s Rights) • Nisa ul Haqq Fi Bangsamoro • Partido Lakas ng Masa (PLM) • Partido ng Manggagawa (PM) • PAHRA • Piglas Kababaihan • Pambansang Koalisyon ng mga Kababaihan sa Kanayunan (PKKK) • Sarilaya • Sentro – Women • Transform Asia • WomanHealth Philippines • Women’s Legal and Human Rights Bureau (WLB) • Welga ng Kababaihan • Women’s Crisis Center Manila • Youth and Students Advancing Gender Equality – YSAGE • World March of Women – Pilipinas • numerous courageous individuals
March 8, 2015
Contact Person: Jean Enriquez 0915 3178018
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During the December 10, 2012 International Human Rights Day, a feminist flashmob dance to the tune of “I am Woman” led by World March of Women – Pilipinas was held at Plaza Miranda.
Women human rights defenders first blended with the vendors, with some holding balloons, as fortune-tellers, beggars, etc. Three dancers started clapping to the tune of the music, then seven dancers joined releasing purple balloons bearing the logo of the World March of Women. They were joined by another 20 coming from the crowd, until it grew to 70. The last batch of dancers, students from the University of the Philippines –Manila made it a throng.
On the last minute of the song, as steps turned to hip-hop, dancers took off their costumes, revealing white shirts which defiantly bore words “RH Now” in the face of continued delay in its passage in Congress. Some shirts shout “Climate Justice!”, in the face of ongoing negotiations in Doha, Qatar and the devastation of typhoon Pablo in Mindanao. Other shirts carried slogans such as “Women Need FOI!”, “Secure Jobs for All!” and “Scrap VFA!”
Around 100 participated in the flashmob from Alliance of Progressive Labor (APL), Bagong Kamalayan, Batis Center for Women, Buklod, Center for Migrant Advocacy (CMA), Coalition Against Trafficking in Women – Asia Pacific (CATW-AP), Focus on the Global South, Foundation for Media Alternatives, KAISA – Nagkakaisang Iskolar para sa Pamantasan at Sambayanan – UP Diliman, KAISA-KA, Pambansang Koalisyon ng Kababaihan sa Kanayunan (PKKK), Partido ng Manggagawa, Sarilaya, TIGRA Philippines, UP Manila students, WomanHealth Philippines, Women’s Crisis Center (WCC), and Youth and Students Advancing Gender Equality (YSAGE)
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