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“Today, women won over the combined forces of corporate lobby and misogynist mongering against the measure.”
Now on its seventh year, Filipino women's rights advocates once again took the streets of Manila to dance and protest the misogyny and rising tyranny in the country.
“Passing this off as a joke and laughing matter further normalizes sexual harassment against women! Filipinos dont need an electoral candidate that has a foul mouth and disrepects women,” Kontra Bastos sa Eleksyon said.
“The House leadership pulled the strings to close the curtain on the period of interpellation and debate -- despite the fact that the bill's sponsor has failed to convincingly and substantially explain the rationale for rushing the measure. This is a cowardly act to constrict the space for legislative scrutiny of the patently insane measure.”
“Jailing children...is punitive instead of corrective. It deprives instead of fulfilling rights, and exemplifies cruelty instead of compassion.”
“The proposed legislation aims nothing but to put the blame on children in conflict with the law and punish them behind bars.”
With global warming and climate change, normal or extra-strong typhoons are becoming more disastrous than ever, offering more pressing reasons not to destroy the remaining forest and watershed to build unnecessary mega-dams.
“We are alarmed by the Duterte administration’s continuous, intended choice to violate human rights and fundamental freedoms of its own people.”
These will result in improved cognitive development leading to higher learning and educational attainment, thereby increasing productivity and wages, which will translate to a higher gross domestic product.
“We have been doing this work for a long time in the women’s movement only for us to hear our president, including (President Donald) Trump and other world leaders, normalizing violence against women.”
“On the president’s third year in office, nothing has become clearer than that Mr. Duterte has really nothing to show for beyond his machismo and misogyny.”
Joshua hugged his uncle Junard and said, “Nahadlok ako” (I’m afraid) while the soldiers searched their house and belongings.
“They say that it takes a village to raise a child; this is true for us. Not just a village, but a movement that raised us.”
Life is more difficult for children these days, especially for those who belong to poor families.
“Poverty, fascism, sexism. All of these fuel our fight for women’s rights.”
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