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State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:UN CompilationIssue:
- Gender equality
Type:Review DocumentationSession:27th Session May 2017Status:NeglectedContents:The CEDAW also recommended encouraging the media to portray positive images of women and the equal status of women and men, as well as to avoid gender stereotypes in media coverage of gender-based violence against women. [Para 77] -
State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:SingaporeSingaporeRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANCommonwealthIssue:
- Gender equality
- Violence against women / gender-based violence
Type:RecommendationSession:13th session, June 2012Status:AcceptedContents:Continue its efforts to implement domestic policies to further promote gender equality and strengthen the protection of women against discrimination and violence.ImplementationNational Report:
Para 58) The World Economic Forum’s 2016 Global Gender Gap Report ranks the Philippines as seventh in the world’s most gender-equal society. In 2013, the Philippine Commission on Women (PCW) finalized the Women’s EDGE Plan that serves as guide for agencies and LGU to properly implement and enforce the Magna Carta for Women (MCW). The EDGE plan provides direction in identifying interventions and strategies addressing various gender issues.
Para 59) In 2013, GPH declared November 25 of every year as a National Consciousness Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and Children. Government agencies and institutions continue to conduct annual campaigns, like Women’s Month Celebration and 18-Day Campaign to End Violence Against Women (VAW) to raise awareness on Convention on Elimination of All Discriminations Against Women (CEDAW), MCW, related laws, and international human rights standards.
Para 60) GPH provides strong budgetary support for Gender and Development (GAD). The PhP 105.75 billion budget for GAD in 2015 was almost twice the PhP 57.73 billion of 2013. The number of agencies complying with the minimum 5% GAD budget allocation has also increased from a mere 25 in 2014 to 137 in 2017.
Para 61) To ensure gender mainstreaming and implement MCW, the Philippine Framework Plan for Women outline efforts for gender-responsive governance. As of March 2017, women occupy 43.5% of third level positions in government. Six out of 10 women occupying Career Executive Service positions are Career Officials.
Para 62) PNP has 1,918 Women and Children Protection Desks (WCPD) nationwide, with 4,573 personnel at the frontlines of responding and preventing, receiving and documenting gender-based violence and violence against women and children (VAWC), and of providing assistance in filing appropriate administrative and criminal cases. Around 88% of the 42,028 villages have WCPDs responding to gender-based violence cases. From 2013 to 2015, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has recorded a total of 30,334 VAW cases filed in court.
Para 63) GPH continues to work on improving the social condition of women through various rehabilitative and protective programs for Women in Especially Difficult Circumstances (WEDC). In 2016, DSWD assisted a total of 355,133 cases of WEDCs. Women-Friendly Spaces were also set up in LGU evacuation camps to ensure a systematic, organized and gender-responsive ways of delivering services to victims of natural or manmade calamities.
Para 64) The second leg of the Gender Responsive Economic Transformation of Women Project builds on the results and lessons of the 2006-2013 leg. It is a PhP 334.9 million project developed to provide a timely opportunity to improve sustainability, productivity, and competitiveness of women’s micro-enterprises and to continue enhancing the enabling environment for their economic empowerment.
Para 69) The PCW regularly formulates a Women’s Priority Legislative Agenda (WPLA), a set of proposed bills that seek to amend or repeal the discriminatory provisions of existing laws and moves for new legislations that promote women’s empowerment and gender equality. Included in the WPLA are bills amending the Anti-Rape Law, increasing maternity leave to 100 days, enacting the Anti-Prostitution Bill, and amending certain provisions of the Family Code and the Revised Penal Code.
UN Compilation:
Para 12) Referring to the relevant supported recommendations, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) stated that police officers assigned to the Women and Children Protection Centre within the police had received human rights training.
Para 38) The United Nations country team referred to a relevant supported recommendation and stated that the Philippines had made good efforts to increase gender sensitivity in the courts. However, women with disabilities and from marginalized groups experienced discrimination in the formal and informal justice systems
Para 71) The United Nations country team referred to the relevant supported recommendations and stated that there had been limited progress in ensuring that legislation conformed to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and other human rights instruments.
Para 72) The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women noted that the harmonization of national legislation with the Magna Carta of Women remained pending, including amendments to the Family Code, the Penal Code, the Anti-Rape Law, the Anti-Sexual Harassment Act and the Code of Muslim Personal Laws.
Para 73) The same Committee noted with concern the delay in the adoption of a bill to repeal a provision of the Family Code recognizing the supremacy of a husband’s decision over that of his wife in respect of community property, the exercise of parental authority and guardianship over a child
Stakeholder Summary:
Para 107) JS20 stated that women had always been at the bottom of development priorities. From 2006 to 2012, poverty incidence among women had been pegged at 26 percent, clearly indicating absence of economic progress among most women.
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State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:SpainSpainRegional groupWEOGPolitical groupEUOEIIssue:
- International human rights instruments
Type:RecommendationSession:13th session, June 2012Status:Unclear ResponseContents:Ratify ... OP-CRPD.Explanation... [Will] study the possibility of ratifying the OP-CRPD.ImplementationStakeholder Summary:
Para 2) CHRP stated that the Philippines had not ratified … OP-CRPD ... -
State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:National ReportIssue:
- Gender equality
- Women's and / or girls' rights
Type:Review DocumentationSession:1st session, April 2008Status:N/AContents:The establishment of a legal framework for the promotion of gender equality and women's rights is imperative. The Philippines needs to enact a comprehensive legal framework that will integrate CEDAW in the national legal system through the passage of the Magna Carta of Women (MCW) bill. This is to ensure that gender discrimination is addressed across all sectors, including indigenous and Muslim women, and in all spheres. Also, the passage of the MCW will strengthen the national machinery for the advancement of women and provide it with the authority, decision making power, and human and financial resources vital to its work to effectively promote gender equality. The Women's Priority Legislative Agenda should receive higher priority in Congress. The NCRFW is also working with government agencies to develop and monitor indicators for the progressive realization of women's human rights. [Para 79] -
State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:MexicoMexicoRegional groupGRULACPolitical groupOASOEIACSIssue:
- International human rights instruments
- Women's and / or girls' rights
Type:RecommendationSession:1st session, April 2008Status:Unclear ResponseContents:That national legislation and customs and traditional practices should be further harmonized with CRC and CEDAW.ExplanationNoted by the Government of the Philippines and will be the subject of further study. -
State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:National ReportIssue:
- Trafficking in women and / or girls
Type:Review DocumentationSession:13th session, June 2012Status:N/AContents:The Philippines pursues the following lead efforts to combat trafficking in persons at
the international level: Presentation of thematic resolutions in the United Nations General Assembly and Human Rights Council, in partnership with Germany, on combating trafficking in persons, especially women and children. [Para 74] -
State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:Stakeholder SummaryIssue:
- Discrimination based on sexual orientation
- Discrimination based on gender identity
Type:Review DocumentationSession:13th session, June 2012Status:Reference AddressedContents:CHRP stated that the disapproval of the application for registration of a political party because of its membership exposed the attitudes of Government officials to lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender (LGBT) persons. [Para 12] -
State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:Stakeholder SummaryIssue:
- Rights of same-sex desiring persons
- Sexual and / or reproductive rights and / or health broadly
- Transgender persons' rights
Type:Review DocumentationSession:13th session, June 2012Status:NeglectedContents:... JS 13 recommended the inclusion of LGBT issues in the existing programs for sexual and reproductive health and rights. [Para 103] -
State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:CroatiaCroatiaRegional groupEEGPolitical groupEUIssue:
- International human rights instruments
Type:RecommendationSession:27th Session May 2017Status:Unclear ResponseContents:Adhere to the OP-CRC-IC.ExplanationNoted. -
State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:BelarusBelarusRegional groupEEGPolitical groupCISIssue:
- Sexual exploitation / slavery
- Trafficking in women and / or girls
Type:RecommendationSession:27th Session May 2017Status:AcceptedContents:Continue to strengthen efforts to combat trafficking in people, including under the strategic national plan of action to prevent online sexual exploitation of children and the programme for rehabilitating and reintegrating victims of human trafficking. -
State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:ChileChileRegional groupGRULACPolitical groupOASOEIIssue:
- Women's and / or girls' rights
- Gender equality
Type:RecommendationSession:27th Session May 2017Status:Unclear ResponseContents:Approve the legal provisions that would make it possible to derogate the articles of the Family Code stipulating the predominance of the husband’s decision over that of the wife with regard to common property and the exercise of paternal rights and the custody of children.ExplanationNoted. -
State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:ArgentinaArgentinaRegional groupGRULACPolitical groupOASOEIIssue:
- Discrimination based on sexual orientation
- Discrimination based on gender identity
- Violence on the basis of sexual orientation
- Violence on the basis of gender identity
Type:RecommendationSession:41st session, November 2022Status:Unclear ResponseContents:Advance in the creation of a legislative framework and public policies that allow all people, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity, access to health, education, work and social security, free from discrimination and violence.
ExplanationNoted. Those with claims that are moored on less than solid premises or are not in line with the Filipino people’s cultural values, religious beliefs, and national identity. On the latter, the GPH respects cultural rights in accordance with the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the human right to freedom of religion under Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). ... Those that relate to legislative or parliamentary actions that must be informed by multi-stakeholder and multi-sector consultations, the results of which may not be aligned with the recommendations. The GPH fully respects the Filipino people’s right to participative governance as qualified by Article 21 of the UDHR and Article 25 of the ICCPR.
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State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:Stakeholder SummaryIssue:
- Trafficking in women and / or girls
Type:Review DocumentationSession:27th Session May 2017Status:NeglectedContents:CMA called for ... a broadened public information campaign on the rehabilitation programme for women victims [of trafficking]. [Para 70] -
State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:EcuadorEcuadorRegional groupGRULACPolitical groupOASOEIIssue:
- Sexual exploitation / slavery
Type:RecommendationSession:41st session, November 2022Status:AcceptedContents:Intensify efforts to face human trafficking, in particular the online trafficking, abuse and sexual exploitation of minors.
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State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:TurkeyTurkeyRegional groupWEOGPolitical groupOICIssue:
- Women's and / or girls' rights
Type:QuestionSession:1st session, April 2008Status:Not Followed up with a RecommendationContents:Elaborate on their expectations from the international community, if any, in assisting efforts to address the challenges faced in providing the full enjoyment of women's rights. -
State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:SingaporeSingaporeRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANCommonwealthIssue:
- Women's and / or girls' rights
Type:RecommendationSession:41st session, November 2022Status:AcceptedContents:Continue its efforts to make education accessible for all, especially girls and others in vulnerable situations.
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State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:EcuadorEcuadorRegional groupGRULACPolitical groupOASOEIIssue:
- Marginalized groups of women
- Women's and / or girls' rights
Type:RecommendationSession:41st session, November 2022Status:AcceptedContents:Promote public policies to protect and promote the rights of persons with disabilities, and prevent discrimination faced by women and girls with disabilities.
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State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:National ReportIssue:
- HIV and AIDS
Type:Review DocumentationSession:27th Session May 2017Status:N/AContents:Furthermore, 13,908 people living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) are undergoing Anti-Retroviral Therapy using the PhP 324-million DOH budget for HIV programs. [Para 66]
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State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:New ZealandNew ZealandRegional groupWEOGPolitical groupPIFCommonwealthIssue:
- Family planning
- Sexual and / or reproductive rights and / or health broadly
Type:RecommendationSession:13th session, June 2012Status:AcceptedContents:Take steps to increase efforts to ensure the rights of individuals to decide freely and responsibly the number, spacing and timing of their children and to have the information and means to do so, and the right to the highest attainable standard of sexual and reproductive health.ImplementationNational Report:
Para 29) The Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health (RPRH) Act of 2012 empowers DOH and local government units to ensure that reproductive health becomes universally accessible. To ensure availability of supplies and the training of providers in new contraceptive technologies, DOH has convened the National Implementation Team for the RPRH law.
Para 65) The DOH executed the first “full” implementation of the RPRH Law in 2015 and appropriated PhP 21.74 billion, almost double the budget in the previous year, to support the implementation of various RPRH programs, like the Family Planning Program and the National Safe Motherhood Program.
Para 68) In spite of the two-year temporary restraining order limiting the full implementation of RPRH Law, President Duterte signed EO No. 12 on 9 January 2017 for the purpose of “Attaining and Sustaining Zero Unmet Need for Modern Family Planning Through the Strict Implementation of the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act.” The EO provides funds from government sources and encourages support from the private sector.
UN Compilation:
Para 64) Referring to the relevant supported recommendations, UNICEF noted that the Philippines had adopted the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act, which guaranteed universal access to maternal health, family planning and sex education. The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women expressed concern that women’s access to sexual and reproductive health services was still severely restricted; that the numbers of early pregnancies, unsafe abortions and HIV infections were increasing, particularly among adolescent girls; and that the revocation of Manila City Executive Orders Nos. 003 and 030 had been implied by the adoption of the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act but had not been expressly declared, resulting in confusion among health professionals and a persistent lack of access to services and information about sexual and reproductive health and rights for women and girls in Manila City. The Committee was concerned that Sorsogon City had adopted Executive Order No. 3 in February 2015, which had resulted in the withdrawal of modern contraceptives from city and community health facilities.
Stakeholder Summary:
Para 7) CHRP stated that the law on reproductive health had not being uniformly implemented and expressed alarm at the withdrawal of contraceptives in the City of Sirosogon. Furthermore, there had been challenges in the delivery of reproductive health services due to religious and cultural resistance.
Para 24) JS4 stated that the Reproductive Health Law and its corresponding programmes did not cater for the reproductive health needs of lesbian, transgender and intersex persons, who experienced discrimination due to the non-recognition of same-sex partnerships.
Para 93) AI referred to relevant supported recommendations, and stated that the Philippines had taken positive steps, including adopting the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act, the Domestic Workers Act and the Expanded Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act. However, the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act had suffered from inconsistent implementation across the country, and there was no mechanism to monitor the implementation of the Act
Para 94) AI stated that repealing the provisions of the the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act which the Supreme Court had ruled to be unconstitutional, would be inconsistent with the international obligations of the Philippines, including Article 12 of CEDAW and Article 12 of ICESCR. JS20 stated that the Act required the consent of male spouses in order for women to access reproductive health procedures and prohibited minors from availing of modern methods of family planning without parental consent, both of which defeated the purpose of addressing teenage pregnancy and empowering women to uphold their sexual and reproductive health rights.
Para 96) JS7 stated that despite legislative guarantees of contraceptive information and services, there were two executive orders in Manila which banned modern contraceptives in all public health care facilities.
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State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:National ReportIssue:
- Women's and / or girls' rights
- Women's participation
Type:Review DocumentationSession:1st session, April 2008Status:N/AContents:With the improved performance of women in formal education, greater attention is now being focused in expanding job options of women through technical-vocational training and non-formal education programs that are implemented by government agencies and NGOs. In the last decade, Filipino women have become increasingly active as men in realizing their economic rights, while being assisted with their childcare and other family responsibilities. They are in all kinds of employment in formal or informal work settings here and abroad. The last decade had seen an increase in the number of women in the labor force with 49% of all women working compared to 79% of men. [Para 70] -
State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:Stakeholder SummaryIssue:
- Intersex persons' rights
- Violence on the basis of gender identity
Type:Review DocumentationSession:41st session, November 2022Status:Not Followed up with a RecommendationContents:JS5 stated that discriminatory policies coupled with social stigma had translated into acts of violence against gender-diverse children. Intersex children had continued to be at risk of forced medical interventions which aimed to align their body with normative definitions of ‘male’ and ‘female’. [Para 100]
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State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:UN CompilationIssue:
- Domestic violence
Type:Review DocumentationSession:13th session, June 2012Status:NeglectedContents:... CRC welcomed the Anti-Violence against Women and their Children Act. However, it expressed concern at the increasing number of cases of domestic violence, and at the fact that they went mostly unreported ... [Para 21] -
State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:Stakeholder SummaryIssue:
- Rights of same-sex desiring persons
Type:Review DocumentationSession:13th session, June 2012Status:NeglectedContents:... JS 1 made recommendations which included ... the provision of mechanism to protect the rights of same-sex spouses. [Para 81] -
State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:ItalyItalyRegional groupWEOGPolitical groupEUIssue:
- Sexual abuse
Type:QuestionSession:1st session, April 2008Status:Not Followed up with a RecommendationContents:Could you provide more information on what measures have been taken so far to address the problem of minors in detention, particularly in relation to the risk of physical and sexual abuses, to the separation of adults from children in detention centres and to educational activities within detention centres? -
State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:BotswanaBotswanaRegional groupAfrica GroupPolitical groupAUCommonwealthIssue:
- Sexual violence
- Violence against women / gender-based violence
Type:RecommendationSession:27th Session May 2017Status:Unclear ResponseContents:Undertake criminal justice reforms in line with international standards to ensure prompt investigations and trials for alleged perpetrators of human trafficking and to address extrajudicial killings and sexual violence against women and children.ExplanationNoted.