MALAYBALAY CITY (PIA) — Women held only 24 percent of elected positions in the country in 2022, down from 30 percent in 2017.

Senator Raffy Tulfo convened a consultative meeting at the Senate with various stakeholders to clarify provisions of the ...

Civil society and advocacy organizations have presented their legislative agenda to candidates in this year's midterm polls, ...

Task Force SAFE, comprised of more or less 10 Comelec workers, is behind the rising number of show cause orders against candidates for their misogynistic and discriminatory remarks ...

or the Magna Carta of Filipino Seafarers, and its Implementing Rules and Regulations. The event was hosted at the Associated Marine Officers' and Seamen's Union of the Philippines (Amosup) Convention ...

Critics argue his comment qualifies as gender-based harassment and breaches both the Philippines' Safe Spaces Act and the Magna Carta of Women. The Gabriela National Alliance of Filipino Women ...

Listen carefully enough, however, and the rhetoric is remarkably similar. The vigour of many of Magna Carta’s 63 clauses has been lost to the passage of time: gone is the requirement that 'heirs … may ...

The Philippine elections commission is weighing whether a congressional candidate’s offer to sleep with “lonely, fertile” single mothers – framed as a joke – could be grounds for ...

The Philippine Commission on Women (PCW ... The agency reiterated the importance of upholding women’s rights, as stated in the Magna Carta of Women and related laws. In its January 2025 statement, the ...

The Philippines has several laws safeguarding the rights of women, such as the Magna Carta for Women. The PCW said that remarks that belittle or objectify women not only violate these legal ...

You see the pits to which Philippine politics has fallen when ... a criminal offense under Republic Act 7277, the Magna Carta for Women, and RA 11313 or the Safe Spaces Act. This case can test ...