
Alamin ang pinag-ugatan nito at kasalukuyang estado.

Kamakailan lamang ay may nagwawala sa Twitter na ale, dahil sa pagdawit daw ng isang netizen sa kanyang anak. #vawc (violence against women and children) The law also acknowledges that women who have retaliated against their partner or who commit violence as a form of self-defense may have suffered from Battered Woman Syndrome (BWS). The law allows women and their children to secure a Barangay Protection Order and/or Temporary or Permanent Protection Order from family courts. The concept of “violence” against women and children includes not just physical violence, but also sexual violence, psychological violence, and economic abuse. The law penalizes any act or a series of acts “committed by any person against a woman who is his wife, former wife, or against a woman with whom the person has or had a sexual or dating relationship, or with whom he has a common child, or against her child whether legitimate or illegitimate, within or without the family abode”.

9262 is a landmark legislation in the Philippines that defines and criminalizes acts of violence against women and their children (VAWC) perpetrated by women’s intimate partners. #Act2endFGM #EndGBV #EndVAWC #EndChildMarriage Act (R.A.) No. Participants at the meeting pledged to advocate, sensitize and create awareness about consequences of FGM, GBV, VAWC and Child Marriage. We had fruitful deliberations as stakeholders and community members agreed that Female Genital Mutilation, Gender-based Violence, Child Marriage and Violence against Women and Children is harmful and thus should be eliminated. by TBI and Youth Activists and increase research uptake on elimination of harmful practices, #FGM, #childmarriage, #GBV and #VAWC and community hubs for innovation.

The meeting is in continuation of what we started earlier last month in Ibarpa North LGA (Ayete and Igangan communities) where over 200 stakeholders and community members had gathered towards dissemination of existing information, research, etc. and increase research uptake on elimination of harmful practices, #FGM, #childmarriage, #GBV and #VAWC and community hubs for innovation in Kajola LGA (Gbonje and Ilero Communities) and Ibarapa East LGA (Eruwa and Lanlate Communities). #PhotoNews: With support from, the Trailblazer Initiative Nigeria held Town hall meetings/Community Dialogue targeted towards dissemination of existing information, research, etc.
