Women and women’s rights advocates commemorate the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (IDEVAW)

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IDEVAW remembers the bravery and heroism of the Mirabal sisters, also known as Las Mariposas (The Butterflies), from the Dominican Republic who struggled alongside oppressed women and other marginalized people in their country. This year, GABRIELA-Southern Mindanao and Gabriela Youth-Davao … Continue reading →

Strengthening Sumifru Women Workers’ Organisation Against Labour Contractualisation

This FPAR case study by Women Studies and Resource Center sheds light on how the agriTNC Sumifru violates the rights of women workers in their banana packing facilities. The FPAR also shares how the women workers are fighting back and claiming their rights.

Feminist Participatory Action Research (FPAR)’s summary of the results

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Reclaim People’s Rights against Imperialist Corporate Hegemony

Reclaim People’s Rights against Imperialist Corporate Hegemony

This workshop is co-organised by Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD), Pakistan Kisan Mazdoor Tahreek (PKMT), Roots for Equity, SP Indonesia, and Women Studies and Resource Centre (WSRC).

Women Interrogating Trade and Corporate Hegemony (WITCH) FPAR Journey 2020

Coronavirus can’t stop our activism and fight for trade and economic justice

The Women Studies and Resource Centre in the Philippines has been organising with women workers in Mindanao to hold corporations accountable to International Labor Standards, and other existing UN agreements and protocols on human rights, economic justice and social justice. Using the body clock exercise provided during the 2nd WITCH FPAR training, women union workers of SUMIFRU shared their life experiences of working from 12 to 20 hours a day with little time left for families while never having been recognised as regular workers. The wages that they receive did not even compensate their hours of laborious work and were provided just for the workers to feed themselves to have enough energy to get back to work the next day.

Coronavirus has added other layers of hardship on these women. After 6 months of community lockdown, costs of living, burdens of care work, stress, as well as government’s repression have all increased. WSRC researcher said that “Behind the all-smile faces are the strong determination to fight against unfair labour practices and contractualisation. They continue to stand and fight not only for themselves and their families but for all the workers.”

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Ruben Enlog Is A Civilian, Contrary to the Lies of the Eastern Mindanao Command

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These photos show Ruben Enlog entering into dialogue with various local officials in Davao City to raise the issue of militarization in Paquibato. This year, Enlog participated in two meetings with other IP leaders. First was with Davao City Mayor…

USM Family Joins OBR 2014

Kabacan, Cotabato — Some 2,000 risers comprising of students, faculty, staff, administration officials of the University of Southern Mindanao and the local government officials of Kabacan, Cotabato joined the One Billion Rising held at the University Grounds at 5:30 in the morning on June 18, 2014, marking a more united, gender-responsive, and violent-free University. Ms. Leah Emily Minoza of the Women Studies Resource Center based in Davao City was the guest speaker

Ms. Minoza stressed that violence against women and gender cuts across race, age, and social status and that it has to stop. Women must be vigilant and have to fight for their right to be free from violence.

The OBR – USM is a response to a global campaign to end violence against women and children, chaired by Ms. Monique Wilson, the global OBR coordinator. It is a call for victims and their loved ones to break their silence and share their stories either politically, spiritually, outrageously, or creatively through art, dance, songs, marches, rituals, testimonies or in any ways they can imagine.

The activity was spearheaded by the USM GAD Focal Point System Chair, Dr. Francisco Gil Garcia, University President, started with a Fun Run in the streets of Kabacan, followed by a program and the OBR Dance. The University Dramatic Guild had a short depiction on forms of violence against women. Leading the OBR were the GAD College Focal Point Persons and the ISPEAR BPE students. (jacintapueyo13@yahoo.com)

The Vagina Monologues

We just wanna say thank you to the European Union and the Nonoy Librado Development Foundation for supporting activities and efforts towards gender equality for the third and final year. For the project “Workers’ Rights are Human Rights: Strengthening Trade Unions to Advance Fundamental Freedoms in Mindanao, Philippines.

There is much to learn from women and we are proud to be working with them. Women hold half the sky!

Roundtable Discussion on e-VAW Davao City

Emerging forms of technology related VAW : cyberstalking, cyberbullying, cyberharassment, Facebook rape, etc. and the use of mobile phones to perpetrate a rape demand response from women and women’s rights organizations.

WSRC collaborated with the Foundation for Media Alternatives for a roundtable discussion on electronic VAW, the relationship between information communication technologies (ICT) and VAW, the Internet as a site of both empowerment and victimization of women, and tools to protect women from eVAW. The open forum highlighted cases and experiences on eVAW among students and community women. Unities and possibilities of collaboration in time for the November 25 IDEVAW commemoration articulated.

Thank you fellow advocates for your active involvement to end VAW. Let us take back the tech! Let us vow to fight VAW!