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State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:MalaysiaMalaysiaRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANOICCommonwealthIssue:
- Sexual abuse
- Sexual exploitation / slavery
Type:RecommendationSession:41st session, November 2022Status:AcceptedContents:Strengthen efforts in creating a safe space for women and children online, including through intensified awareness-raising campaign against all forms of sexual exploitation and abuse.
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State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:AngolaAngolaRegional groupAfrica GroupPolitical groupAUIssue:
- Birth registration
Type:RecommendationSession:41st session, November 2022Status:AcceptedContents:Pursue to scale-up birth, civil registration and citizenship identification of communities at risk of statelessness.
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State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:GuatemalaGuatemalaRegional groupGRULACPolitical groupOASOEIACSIssue:
- International human rights instruments
Type:RecommendationSession:27th Session May 2017Status:Unclear ResponseContents:Promptly ratify the OP-CRPD ...ExplanationNoted. -
State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:AngolaAngolaRegional groupAfrica GroupPolitical groupAUIssue:
- Marginalized groups of women
- Women's participation
Type:RecommendationSession:27th Session May 2017Status:Unclear ResponseContents:Integrate indigenous and Muslim women in all realms of political and public life.ExplanationNoted. -
State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:TunisiaTunisiaRegional groupAfrica GroupPolitical groupAUOICALOIFIssue:
- Gender equality
- Violence against women / gender-based violence
Type:RecommendationSession:27th Session May 2017Status:AcceptedContents:Carry on the efforts to combat all forms of discrimination and violence against women. -
State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:Stakeholder SummaryIssue:
- Discrimination based on gender identity
- Discrimination based on sexual orientation
Type:Review DocumentationSession:27th Session May 2017Status:NeglectedContents:JS4 stated that hate crimes had been treated as “ordinary” crimes and recommended the adoption of legislation specifically criminalizing hate crimes based on sexual orientation and gender identity. [Para 25] -
State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:UN CompilationIssue:
- Gender equality
- International human rights instruments
Type:Review DocumentationSession:27th Session May 2017Status:Reference AddressedContents:The CEDAW recommended that the Philippines clarify the status of the CEDAW in its domestic legal order and ensure the precedence of its provisions over national laws in cases of conflict. [Para 9] -
State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:UN CompilationIssue:
- Women's and / or girls' rights
- Gender equality
Type:Review DocumentationSession:27th Session May 2017Status:NeglectedContents:The United Nations country team stated that the Contract of Service under the Nurse Deployment Project of the Department of Health provided for the termination of a female nurse’s employment contract if she became pregnant, which was in conflict with the Labour Code of the Philippines. [Para 50] -
State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:UN CompilationIssue:
- Women's and / or girls' rights
Type:Review DocumentationSession:27th Session May 2017Status:NeglectedContents:The CEDAW expressed concern that the appropriation of land and the resulting displacement owing to the activities of the extractive industries, development projects and disasters continued to affect rural women disproportionately. Women living in rural areas were being forcibly evicted and relocated as a result of large development projects and the activities of the extractive industries. [Para 80] -
State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:National ReportIssue:
- Trafficking in women and / or girls
Type:Review DocumentationSession:1st session, April 2008Status:N/AContents:The PNP and the NBI conducted 25 rescue operations and investigated 109 cases of trafficking for the period 2003-2005. The Department of Justice (DOJ) received a total of 114 cases of trafficking in 2005, 60 cases in 2004, and 12 cases in 2003. Since the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Law was enacted in 2003, ten persons have been convicted. [Para 76] -
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:Stakeholder SummaryIssue:
- Discrimination based on sexual orientation
Type:Review DocumentationSession:1st session, April 2008Status:NeglectedContents:There is no anti-discriminatory legislation protecting lesbians. [Para 7] -
State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:UN CompilationIssue:
- Forced sterilization
- Marginalized groups of women
Type:Review DocumentationSession:41st session, November 2022Status:Reference AddressedContents:CRPD expressed concern about reported incidents of forced sterilization of women with intellectual disabilities and recommended that the Philippines, inter alia, take measures to protect women with intellectual disabilities from involuntary sterilization. [Para 52]
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State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:TunisiaTunisiaRegional groupAfrica GroupPolitical groupAUOICALOIFIssue:
- Gender equality
Type:QuestionSession:1st session, April 2008Status:Not Followed up with a RecommendationContents:Tunisia referred to the important achievements of the Philippines in the implementation of CEDAW, in particular the narrowing of inequalities between women and men, and requested further details on the main difficulties and challenges in addressing this issue, specifically in the labour market. -
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:FinlandFinlandRegional groupWEOGPolitical groupEUIssue:
- Intersex persons' rights
- Discrimination based on sexual orientation
- Discrimination based on gender identity
Type:RecommendationSession:41st session, November 2022Status:Unclear ResponseContents:Pass legislation protecting LGBTIQ+ and other persons in vulnerable positions from all forms of discrimination, notably the Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Gender Expression Equality Bill.
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:PeruPeruRegional groupGRULACPolitical groupOASOEIIssue:
- Maternal health / morbidity / mortality
- Marginalized groups of women
Type:RecommendationSession:41st session, November 2022Status:AcceptedContents:Promote initiatives to improve conditions in detention centres, especially in the provision of adequate prenatal and postnatal care for pregnant and breastfeeding women.
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State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:LaosLaosRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANOIFIssue:
- Sexual and / or reproductive rights and / or health broadly
Type:RecommendationSession:41st session, November 2022Status:AcceptedContents:Further enhance the full and effective implementation of programs on universal access to healthcare, including sexual and reproductive health for women and girls.
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State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:RomaniaRomaniaRegional groupEEGPolitical groupEUOIFIssue:
- Violence against women / gender-based violence
- Domestic violence
Type:RecommendationSession:41st session, November 2022Status:AcceptedContents:Take measures to protect women and children from domestic violence while ensuring access to multiple forms of reporting of these cases, information about their rights and available remedies.
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State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:Bosnia & HerzegovinaBosnia & HerzegovinaRegional groupEEGIssue:
- Violence against women / gender-based violence
Type:RecommendationSession:27th Session May 2017Status:AcceptedContents:Continue with strategies and programmes to put an end to violence against vulnerable groups, particularly women and children, ensuring child protection both online and offline. -
State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:New ZealandNew ZealandRegional groupWEOGPolitical groupPIFCommonwealthIssue:
- Family planning
- Contraception
- Sexual and / or reproductive rights and / or health broadly
Type:RecommendationSession:27th Session May 2017Status:AcceptedContents:Continue to undertake efforts to implement the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act. -
State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:SwedenSwedenRegional groupWEOGPolitical groupEUIssue:
- Family planning
- Contraception
Type:QuestionSession:27th Session May 2017Status:Not Followed up with a RecommendationContents:Has the Government of the Philippines any plans to propose that the RPRH law is amended to allow access of minors to modern methods of family planning without parental consent?