Disadvantaged Women

MANILA, Philippines – A militant party-list lawmaker filed yesterday a bill that would make the country’s annulment laws “accessible to the poor.”

COTABATO CITY: A local version of the Republic Act (RA) 9710, or the Magna Carta for Women, will soon become a Muslim Mindanao Act once the regional governor has signed it into law, according to a high official of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) on Friday.

More than 1.6 million actions have been registered with the Say NO – UNiTE to End Violence against Women initiative of the United Nations Development Fund for Women, a milestone registration that coincided with the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on Nov. 25.

Home to approximately 600 million people, Southeast Asia is no idyllic sanctuary for women but rather, for many of them, a dangerous place to live.

MANILA, Philippines –  Pangasinan Rep. Gina de Venecia stressed the role of women in nation-building and interfaith dialogue and achieving world peace during the Global Peace Convention in Nairobi, Kenya last week.

ONE OF the creepier stories in the TV news line-up filled with the bizarre and the weird (on the occasion of Halloween and All Saints Day) was the report about a seven-month pregnant woman found dead and naked in a provincial cemetery.

SEATTLE – Women across nearly every income level gave significantly more to charity than men, nearly twice as much in some cases, according to a study by the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—Human Rights Watch has slammed a ruling by an Emirati court which condones the beating of wives by their husbands, saying it sends out a signal that violence against women and children is acceptable.

UNITED NATIONS—More than a third of all women in the world have been forced into sex, beaten or abused by a partner or family member, a top UN official said Tuesday.

With the International Violence Against Women Act, the U.S. is in a powerful position to make a difference, points out Ritu Sharma Violence against women is one of the greatest barriers to economic freedom for women worldwide. Every day, all over the world, women are victims of some of the worst physical atrocities, including acid…

Today: sana may programang gawin ang mga bishops sa lahat ng kanilang parishes: example, sa bawat lampas sa 3 o 4 na anak kada pamilya, bukod sa magandang pangaral, ang simbahan ang (1) magpapakain ng masustansya at masarap sa mga bata (2) magbabayad sa dental, optical at medical expenses ng mga bata at (3) magbibigay…

MANILA, Philippines –  Changing the country’s tough stance on divorce will take more than simple luck and good intentions. For Luzviminda Ilagan and the women of the Gabriela party-list who are pushing for a twice-failed legislation to legalize divorce, the stakes are high.

A unit of the Office of the President has denounced the Philippine Airlines’ alleged discriminatory policies against female flight attendants.

The fate of House Bill 1799 or a bill to introduce divorce in the Philippines still hangs in the balance. Much like the reproductive health bill, the divorce bill can expect rough sailing because the Catholic Church is seen as poised to block it.

If you are a battered woman, you are living on a roller coaster of feelings. Your man is predictable in his unpredictability. He can swing from happy, sweet moments to explosive violence at the drop of a hat. You never know what he will do, how he will interpret a word or an action of…

The Diocese of Laoag has opened a marriage tribunal for troubled Catholic couples, the first tribunal of its kind in the Ilocos region.

Why do men beat their wives? Why would a man tell a woman that he loves her and then proceed to beat her? You might say that he really doesn’t love her. Perhaps you’re correct. If he does love her, it surely isn’t in the traditional sense of the word. You don’t hit the woman…

If you are being beaten by a boyfriend or a spouse, then you need to read this. If you have a family member or a friend who is being physically battered, you might want to read this and give it to that friend or loved one.

It was only on May 8 when Italy (where the Vatican, home of the Pope, leader of the largest religion in the world, resides), held its first divorce fair, with the aim of providing life coaching, beauty tips, tips on getting rid of former spouses who turn to stalkers, and helping couples with legal proceedings…

As usual, my Philippine STAR article yesterday (No need for a divorce law) elicited reactions arising from lack of proper understanding or simple refusal to see the adequacy of the remedies available to parties in an allegedly irreparable marriages already provided by the existing laws. It is quite clear that under the Family Code, aggrieved…

A “zhorse” was recently born at the Manila Zoo—a beguiling combination of zebra and horse, brown as a horse, striped as a zebra! Zoo-keepers told news-reporters that the zoo had only one zebra left and when they noticed that it was going into fits of depression, they tried giving it a horse for a companion!…

There are things noticeably odd—and interesting—in the current debate on divorce. The proponents of divorce in the House of Representatives are women, belonging to the women’s rights party list, Gabriela. In the Senate, the champion of the divorce bill is another woman, Senator Pia Cayetano. The most vocal oppositionists of divorce, on the other hand,…

I don’t know if anyone else has noticed but nowadays when married people introduce themselves they seem obliged to describe the state of their marriage. I am sure you have been in some social function where someone inevitably introduces himself or herself as someone who is “happily married.” Some do it in jest, others in…

SAN FRANCISCO, California, United States—Organization-image specialist Marily Mondejar was doing a pretty good job consulting for a mayoral candidate here several years ago.

Yes, because there is already an existing law on divorce providing adequate remedies which the authors of the divorce bill seek to give couples in irreparable marriages, or married women in abusive marital relationships who are victims of domestic violence, or aggrieved spouses in marriages where “love has gone”, as shown by the cruelty, infidelity,…

SO I asked my young friend, Rina, where she thought her life was going. She is gainfully employed, albeit in a contractual position in the service industry. She has a kid already studying in a private elementary school courtesy of her parents-in-law, but her husband is a bum.

TWO legislators representing the women sector have refiled the bill  seeking to legalize divorce in the country to give married couples in irreparable marriages another legal remedy to resort to in addition to the country’s existing laws on legal separation and annulment.

The wife beater is a very controlling man. He often is also suffering from a personality disorder. He might be an anti social personality. He is someone who lacks conscience. How can a man who says he loves his wife keep beating her and not feel bad about it? It is true that most abusive…

MANILA, Philippines – Dr. Emerlinda Ramos-Roman is on her fifth year as president of the University of the Philippines System (UPS). The noted lady educator is the first woman to head the country’s premier century-old state university.

Dear PAO, If a marriage is already annulled, can the former wife demand 50 percent of the former husband’s salaries and benefits as support for their children? Can the husband instead decide the amount of support to be given to his children? Until when are children entitled for support? Racquel (2)