Ugnayang Bayan 2015 - Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)

PHRP II Chapter on the
Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Discrimination Against Women
(CEDAW)
EMMELINE L. VERZOSA
Executive Director

Philippine Commission on Women
Office of the President
Overview
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
 the first and only international treaty that comprehensively
addresses the human rights of women
 International Bill of Rights for Women
 Adopted by the UNGA on December 18, 1979
 Ratified by 189 countries including the Philippines
o Philippine Government committed to stop all discriminations against
women

Overview
The Philippine Human Rights Plan (PHRP) II CEDAW Chapter
Aims to address the gaps in the implementation and enforcement of
women-friendly laws through:
o improved coordination
o formulation of policy and development of legal instruments and
mechanisms
o increased capacities of service providers, increased public
awareness on CEDAW
o faster and increased number of court decisions and dispositions
on cases of trafficking
o improved monitoring and reporting on VAW
Focuses on:
o Protection of women and girls against violence
o Promotion of women and girls rights to equal treatment and non-
discrimination
o Fulfillment of women and girls rights through legal reforms

Overview
The PHRP II CEDAW report highlights:
 achievements on legal reforms that complement or
reinforce the implementation of the 5 priority laws on
protection from violence against women
 preparation of mechanisms for the implementation of
the Magna Carta of Women (MCW)
 efforts to raise public awareness of women’s rights.

Thematic Objectives
PHRP II CEDAW Chapter Three (3) Thematic
Objectives
Thematic Objective 1: To enhance the capacity of the justice system to
effectively and efficiently implement existing laws which respect, protect
and fulfill the rights of women against gender-based violence.
Thematic Objective 2: To ensure the implementation of the provisions of
the MCW, and institute legal and administrative reform mechanisms in the
national and local levels that will enhance the implementation and monitor
its progress.
Thematic Objective 3: To raise the level of public awareness of duty
bearers and claimholders on the MCW and the CEDAW.

THEMATIC OBJECTIVE 1

Legislative and Policy-Related Measures
Baseline (2012)
Apart from the five (5) priority laws on CEDAW (RA 9262, RA 7877,
RA 8353, RA 8505 and RA 9208), other anti-VAW related
laws passed even prior to 2012 are as follows:
• Anti-Child Pornography Act (RA 9775, 2009)
• Anti Photo and Video Voyeurism Act (RA 9995, 2009)
• Magna Carta of Women (RA 9710, 2009)
• Anti-Torture Act (RA 9745, 2009)
• Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (PDRRM)
Act (RA 10121, 2010)
• Cybercrime Prevention Act (RA 10175, 2012)
• Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act (RA
10354, 2012)

Performance Updates
Among the VAW-related laws that were approved between the
years 2013 to 2015 include:
• Domestic Workers Act (RA 10361, 2013)
• Expanded Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act (RA 10364, 2013)
• Act Declaring the November 25 of Every Year as the “National
Consciousness Day For The Elimination Of Violence Against
Women And Children” (RA 10398, 2013)
• Amendment to the Revised Penal Code Repealing the Crime of
Premature Marriage Under Article 351 (RA 10655, 2015)

Other VAW-related legislative measures pending in
Congress:
•Expanded VAWC or e-VAW law to amend the RA 9262
•Amendment to RA 7877 or the Anti-Sexual Harassment Law of
1995
•Amendment to RA 8353 or the Anti-Rape Law of 1997

Other VAW-related Policies and Plans:
• IACVAWC Strategic Action Plan 2014-2016
– allows synchronized and coordinated activities
among Council member-agencies
– built on the results of the assessment of RA 9262
and first IACVAWC Strategic Plan
• IACAT Strategic Action Plan (2004-2010) & (2012-2016)
• Barangay VAW Desk Handbook
– developed in 2013 as supplement to the
provision of the MCW and DILG-DSWD-DOH-
DepEd-PCW Joint Memorandum Circular

Other VAW-related Policies and Plans:
• Philippine National Action Plan on Women, Peace and
Security (NAP WPS) 2010-2016
– a six-year plan, country’s response to international
normative standards on women, peace and security,
namely: United Nations (UN) Resolution 1325 (2000),
UN Resolution 1820 (2008), Resolution 1888 (2009)
• Women’s Empowerment, Development and Gender
Equality (Women’s EDGE) Plan 2013-2016
– Launched in March 2014
– recognizes VAW as a priority gender issue that needs
immediate attention

VAW Data
• National Demographic and Health Survey
(NDHS) by PSA 2008; 2013
– prevalence of VAW
• National VAW Documentation System
(NVAWDocs)
– Harmonized system to track VAW cases

Administrative Measures
Programs and Services addressing VAW
Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)
• Gender-Responsive Case Management Manual for Social Workers
• Center-based and Community-Based Services
• Residential care facilities
• Rape crisis centers
• Recovery and Reintegration Program for Trafficked Persons
(RRPTP)
• National Referral System for the Recovery and Reintegration of
Trafficked Persons
• International Social Welfare Services for Filipino Nationals
(ISWSFN)

Programs and Services addressing VAW
Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)
• Comprehensive Intervention Against Gender-Based
Violence (CIAGV)
• Women-Friendly Spaces (WFS) and Manual

VAW CASES SERVED BY DSWD
(2012-2015)

Other Programs and Services addressing VAW
Philippine National Police
• Philippine National Police (PNP) issued Letter of
Instructions 01-2011
• PNP National Anti-Trafficking Committee
Department of Health
• DOH established Women and Children Protection
Centers (WCPC)
NDRRMC
• Distribution of Dignity Kits (e.g. malong and sanitary
napkin)

VAW CASES REPORTED TO PNP
2009-2014

TIP VICTIMS BY SEX
2012-2014
Source: PNP Women and Children Protection Center

Judicial Measures
• Issuance of DOJ Circular No. 57, series of 2010 or the
Consolidated Guidelines in the Investigation and Prosecution of
Cases involving Violations of the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of
2003
• Supreme Court issuance of OCA Circular No. 151-2010
• Secretary of Justice issued Department Order No. 826
• The judiciary and the courts also implemented measures to
respond to the call to prioritize addressing VAW cases from 2013
to 2014.

Judicial Measures
VAW and TIP Cases
• A total of 187 convictions involving 209 convicted persons from 2005 to June 15,
2015.
• A sharp rise in conviction of TIP cases were from 2010 to 2015 where nearly 86%
occurred during the Aquino administration
• The highest number of convictions of human traffickers occurred in 2014 with a
total of 52 convicted persons in 49 cases which is higher from 2013’s 37
convictions
• Three fourths (76%) of the 18,215 violence against women and children (VAWC)
cases of violation of RA 9262 that reached the DOJ for investigation and
prosecution in 2013 were resolved.
• Of the 76%, 9,286 cases were filed in court, 3,959 were dismissed and 552 were
suspended/referred/other actions.
• DOJ also handled 9,445 rape cases for investigation, of which 7,198 or about 76%
were resolved: 59% (5,614) were filed in court, 14% (1,310) were dismissed, and
3% (274) were suspended/referred/other actions.
• In 2012, at least 1,233 court convictions were reported relative to RA 9262
violation, rape and acts of lasciviousness, almost twice the reported 664 in 2011.
(DOJ, 2014)

Gender-Responsive Mechanisms
• The Interagency Committee on Violence Against Women and their Children
(IAC-VAWC) and the Interagency Committee on Anti-Trafficking (IACAT)
• The Joint Memorandum Circular (JMC) 2010-1 issued by the DOJ and the
Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) on the Creation of
Local Committees on Anti-Trafficking and Violence against Women and Their
Children (LCAT-VAWC).
• Barangay VAW desks establishment by virtue of the Joint Memorandum
Circular 2010-02
• Inter-Agency Council Against Child Pornography (IACACP) chaired by DSWD
• The Gender Ombud by CHR
• Department of Health (DOH) Administrative Order No. 2015-0002
implementation of RPRH
• DILG issuance of Memorandum Circular as support to RPRH Act

Administrative policies of Agencies
A.Institutionalization of Functional GFPS
• Agencies’ GAD focal point systems have been instrumental in
steering the gender mainstreaming (GM) initiatives of their
respective departments
• GAD focal point systems were established and reconstituted among
national government agencies, attached agencies, regional offices,
government-owned and controlled corporations and local
government units
• 149 reported GFPS among government offices at the national, sub-
national and local levels.
• Agencies that issued GFPS policies include CHED, DOLE, NEDA,
DOT, Office of the Civil Defense (OCD), Commission on Human
Rights and Commission on Audit (COA)

Gender-Responsive Policies
NEDA
• (2012) Issuance of Joint Circular (JC) 2012-01,with PCW and DBM
• (2013) Issuance of Joint Memorandum Circular 2013-01 on the
Localization of the Magna Carta of Women, with PCW and DILG
OPAPP
• (2010) National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security
(NAPWPS)
• Issuance of Joint Memorandum Circular 2014-01 on integrating
women, peace and security-related PAPs in annual GPBs and GAD
ARs of government agencies, with PCW
• Implementation of soft landing policy and institutionalizing its
functional CODI in 2013

DOLE
• Enactment of the Domestic Workers Act or Batas Kasambahay (RA 10361)
• Establishment of Kasambahay Desks
• Labor and Employment Plan (LEP) 2010-2016
• DOLE’s Department Order 131-13 on the Labor Laws Compliance System
(LLCS)
CHED
• (2010) Issuance of Memorandum (CMO) No. 1 s. 2015 entitled “Establishing
the Policies and Guidelines on Gender and Development in the Commission
on Higher Education and Higher Education Institutions”
• Review of policies as to usage of gender-fair language, public orientations
on CMO No. 1 s. 2015
• Conduct of nationwide survey on functional committees on decorum and
investigation (CODIs)

DOH
• Issuance of Department Order 2013-0022 or Guidelines for the
Implementation of the Gender and Development Focal Point System
(GFPS) to Mainstream Gender and Development in the Department of
Health.
• (2014) Drafted IRR of RA 10354 or RPRH Law in consultation with
government agencies and was published and enforced in 2015
• (2015) Issuance of Department Order to all its Regional Offices (ROs)
and to all hospitals on the reorganization of DOH ROs as RH teams.
• DOH’s National Safe Motherhood Program with the twin components
of Basic Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care (BEmONC) and
Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care (CEmONC
DOT
• Gender Tourism Toolkit
• GAD modules which are used to train their employees on GAD

CHR
• Gender Ombud Guidelines
DEPED
• Issuance of the Child Protection Policy
DND
• Issuance of DOs 181, s. 2002 and 262 s, 2007 on the Creation of
CODI
• Issuance of memoranda on Flexible Working Hours for DND Proper
and on Lifting of 3-Year Marriage Ban
• GAD Strategic Framework 2016-2028

HOR
• the Committee on Women and Gender Equality (CWGE)
of the House of Representatives endorsed legislative
measures for Senate’s action such as:
– E-VAW law as an amendment of RA 9262
– Expanded Sexual Harassment Law
– Anti-Male Order Spouse
– Anti-Discrimination of SOGIE
– amendments of the Family Code.
• The Committee Chair also directed the CWGE to assess
the outcome of the GAD budget implementation of NGAs
and LGUs

MCW Mechanisms, Implementation and Monitoring
• PCW’s issuance of the MC 2011-01 or the Guidelines for the
Creation, Strengthening, and Institutionalization of the GAD Focal
Point System.
• Capacity building activities
• GAD orientations or Gender Sensitivity Trainings (GST)
• Gender Analysis
• Use of gender audit tools such as the Gender Mainstreaming
Evaluation Framework (GMEF) for the organization and the
Harmonized GAD Guidelines (HGDG) for the programs or projects,
and GAD planning and budgeting.
• PCW M&E System
• PCW GAD Database

Monitoring of Implementing Agencies
• PNP - VAW Cases
• DOJ IACAT- TIP Cases
• DSWD- number of women who have availed of the
protective services program
• DOH- monitors its implementation of the Women and
Children Protection Centers (WCPC) in DOH-retained
and LGU-supported hospitals
• OPAPP- development of NAPWPS Framework

Passage of Pro-women Bills
• CEDAW PHRP II has targeted the passage of pro-women bills.
the following bills have been filed for enactment:
– Anti-Prostitution Bill
– Amendment to RA 7877 or the Anti-Sexual Harrassment Law
– Amendment to the Revised Penal Code provisions on
death/physical injuries under exceptional circumstances
– Amendment to Family Code discriminatory provisions to
ensuring the Fundamental Equality of Men and Women under
the Laws on Marriage and Family Relations
– Legal Separation
– Marital Infidelity Bill
– Magna Carta of Workers in the Informal Economy
– Abolition of the Forgiveness Clause in the Rape Law
• The Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Bill has
been approved into law in 2012.

Status of Other Bills
Pro-Women Bills Updates
Anti-Prostitution •Six (6) versions of the bill are pending with the Committee on
Justice and Human Rights and Women, Family Relations and
Gender Equality of the Senate. These bills are authored by
Sens. Escudero, Estrada, Defensor-Santiago and P. Cayetano
•Five (5) versions of the bill are also pending with Committee on
Revision of Laws of the House of Representatives.
Amendment to RA
7877 or the Anti-
Sexual Harassment
Law of 1995
•Three (3) versions of the bill are pending with the Committee
on Public Services and Labor, Employment and Human
Resources Development. These bills are authored by Sens.
Legarda, Estrada and Defensor-Santiago.
•One (1) version of this bill was approved on 19 May 2015 with
the Committee on Women and Gender Equality in the House of
Representatives and was transmitted to and received by the
Senate on 21 May 2015.

Amendments to the Revised
Penal Code provisions on
Death/Physical Injuries Under
Exceptional Circumstances,
and serious physical injuries as
ground for legal separation
•One (1) version of this bill is pending with the Committee on
Justice and Human Rights in the Senate. This bill is authored by
Sen. Defensor – Santiago.
•One (1) version of this bill is also pending with the Committee on
Revision of Laws in the House of Representatives. This bill is
authored by Representative Neri Colmenares
Amendments to the Family
Code on discriminatory
provisions to ensuring the
Fundamental Equality of Men
and Women under the Laws on
Marriage and Family Relations
•Revision of Codes in the Senate. This bill is authored by Sens.
Binay, P. Cayetano and Defensor – Santiago.
•Five (5) versions of this bill are also pending with the Committee
on Women and Gender Equality in the House of Representatives.

Legal Separation •. One (1) bill is pending first reading with the Committee on
Revision of Laws in the House of Representatives. It is authored
by Representative Emmi de Jesus.
Marital Infidelity Bill
•Four (4) versions of the bill are pending with the Committee on
Women, Family Relations and Gender Equality. These bills are
authored by Senators Estrada, Binay, Defensor-Santiago and
Villar. Committee deliberations were already conducted on 26
February 2014 and 8 April 2014.
•Nine (9) bills related to marital infidelity are also pending with the
Committee on Revision of Laws awaiting consolidation.

Pro-Women Bill Updates
Magna Carta of Workers
in the Informal Economy
•Four (4) versions of the bill are pending with the Committee on Social
Justice, Welfare, and Rural Development in the Senate. These were
authored by Senators Escudero, Defensor-Santiago, Angara and
Estrada. The Committee conducted its first public hearing on 10 June
2014and a TWG meeting was held on 10 July 2014. The version by
Senator Defensor-Santiago as used as the working document.
•Four (4) versions of the bill are also pending with the Committee on
Labor and Employment of the House of Representatives since 2013.
matter.
Abolition of the
Forgiveness Clause in
the Rape Law
•Three (3) related bills are pending in the Senate Committee on
Justice and Human Rights in the Senate and were filed by Senators
Escudero and Defensor-Santiago
.
•Three (3) related bills are also pending with the Committee on
Revision of Laws of the House of Representatives.

Actual Campaign on MCW
A. The Women’s Empowerment Program
• With funding support from the Office of Senator Pia S. Cayetano, the WEP
offered a whole package of advocacy campaign to popularize the thrusts of the
MCW
• Information caravans, capacity building activities through seminars, fora, and
trainings, and development and dissemination of information, education and
communication (IEC) materials on MCW.
B. The National Women’s Month Celebration
• The Commission, as mandated by Proclamation No. 227, s. 1988, has been
leading the observance of the National Women’s Month Celebration every
March.
• It issued the celebration’s themes that focused on women’s issues and roles of
that need to be addressed or emphasized
• All government agencies and LGUs nationwide are mandated to observe the
National Women’s Month Celebration

C. The 18- Day Campaign to End VAW
• PCW leads the observance of November 25 as National
Consciousness Day to Eliminate Violence against Women and
Children by virtue of RA 10398.
D. Launching Activities of Gender-Responsive Policies
and Programs
• In 2012, the Gender Responsive Economic Actions for the
Transformation of Women (GREAT Women) Project was launched.
• In 2014, the Women’s EDGE Plan 2013-2016 was also launched
• the Gender Equality Guides for Media formulated by the Media Gender
Equality Committee (MGEC) was launched in 2013.

E. GADtimpala and Other Recognitions on the
Implementation of MCW
• The first awarding ceremonies of the GADtimpala to deserving
agencies was conveyed in 2014 as one of the highlights of the
National Women’s Month Celebration
• The first GADtimpala Awards for Media in March 2015
• PCW named five LGUs – Quezon Province, Naga City, Iloilo City,
Province of Aklan and Davao City - as GAD Local Learning Hubs
(LLH), in recognition of their notable gender-responsive programs and
projects.
F. MCW and CEDAW IEC Materials
• The distribution of IEC materials was also among the strategies
employed by NGAs and LGUs relative to the provisions of MCW and
the recommendations of CEDAW. .

G. Media Advocacy
• Creation of the Media and Gender Equality Committee (MGEC) in
2012 pursuant to the MCW’s provision on non-discriminatory and
non-derogatory portrayal of women in media and film.
• Launching and distribution of Towards a Gender Fair Media: Code of
Ethics for Media, Gender Equality Guidelines, and Media Guidelines
to Protect Women against Discrimination in Media and Film by
PCOO
• The Executive Secretary of the President ‘s issuance of
Memorandum Circular (2013)

G. Media Advocacy
• The Bureau of Broadcast Services (BBS), in partnership with PCW has
been airing the weekly interactive radio program, “Tinig Ng
Kababaihan!” (Women’s Voices!).
• BBS also launched “Musta Ka Mare” Program aired every Fridays on
DZRM Radyo Magazine and “Say Mo, Say Ko” also aired every
Fridays at DZRB Radyo ng Bayan.
• The PNP would also engage into radio and TV discussions on RA
9262, anti trafficking, anti sexual harassment and anti-rape programs
and initiatives of the agency.
• PNP also created social media accounts that serve as medium for
referral services , and school caravans to raise awareness on gender-
based violence issues including cyber pornography.
• the DOH had also been airing family planning infomercials on radio
and TV.

Capacity Building Activities
• Advocacy campaigns such as the National Women’s Month Celebration
and the 18-Day Campaign to End VAW
• Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) Conference was conducted that
paved the way for the drafting of the BPfA+20 Progress Report. In 2015,
the Women and Leadership Forum was also conducted.
• The PNP included orientations on GAD, MCW and RA 9262 in the
program of instructions of PNP Mandatory Courses
• DND conducted capacity development and deepening sessions on GAD
• PNP conducted fora and inter-dialogue activities at the community level
which were participated by parents, children, and barangay leaders in
order to mobilize communities against trafficking in persons.
• The DOLE regional offices also conducted advocacies and information
dissemination to government and private institutions on various labor-
related laws including the provisions of MCW on Special Leave Benefits
for Women

Capacity Building Activities
• The DOH also conducted lectures on reproductive health,
breastfeeding and abortion to pregnant women.
• DepEd also conducted series of fora and other information drive
activities on Child Protection Policy.
• Another milestone to further strengthen the implementation of MCW
and CEDAW is the setting up of Gender Ombud in CHR.
– popularized the Gender Ombud mechanism in LGUs such
as Quezon City, Manila, Legazpi City, Baguio City and
Bohol.
• The Men Opposed to VAW Everywhere (MOVE)
• UN Women’s HeforShe movement
– President Aquino is one of the 10 male leaders who
committed to champion women rights

Challenges and Recommendations
Thematic Objective I
• Increasing public awareness on VAW-related laws
• A strengthened and more proactive implementation of VAW-related laws
• Increased political will of the implementing agencies of the IACAT and
IACVAWC as well as of the local government units.
• Strengthen the monitoring and evaluation of Barangay VAW desks to
ensure functionality
• Guidelines on the Assessment on the Functionality of VAW Desks be
issued and administered
• The establishment of VAW desks be included in the criteria for Seal of
Good Local Governance to encourage the LGUs to give due attention to
VAW issues.
• VAW concerns should be prioritized in the GAD budget allocations of
both the national government and the LGUs.

Thematic Objective 2
• Need to capacitate some staff of government agencies and LGUs
to be able to respond to gender-issues at hand.
• Lack of translation of gender mainstreaming in all aspects of work of
each agency.
• Need for continuous education and capacity building of NGAs,
especially of LGU staff to better respond to their mandates under
the MCW.
• Continuous education of top level management is imperative to gain
more support for gender-related initiatives.
• The establishment of sex-disaggregated database system remains
a challenge in the in the MCW implementation.

Thematic Objective III
• Implementing agencies have to conduct Gender Impact evaluation to address
improvements in the MCW implementation
• On legal reforms, more legislative and other stakeholders’ support is needed to
ensure that the pro-women bills are moving forward in the legislative mill.
• Among other bills that need to be brought to legislative actions are the
following:
• Act Redefining Violence against Women (VAW)
• Expanding of Anti-Sexual Harassment Law
• Amendment of “Anti Male Order Bride “changed to “Anti Male Order
Spouse”
• On Gender Equality: Prohibiting Discrimination re: Sexual Orientation and
Gender Identity and Expression (SOGIE)

Among other bills that need to be brought to
legislative actions are the following:
• Amendment to Rape Victim Assistance
• Increasing the maternity leave benefits of pregnant women in
public and private sector,
• Local Sectoral Representation Bill
• Amendment to Code of Muslim Personal Laws
• Bills on Justified Abortions
• Pre-Natal Leave Benefits
• Divorce Bill
• Solo Parents Act
• Mental Health Bills
• Bills for Women Prisoners.

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