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State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:National ReportIssue:
- Gender perspective in policies, programmes
Type:Review DocumentationSession:13th session, June 2012Status:N/AContents:Administrative Order 249 also required that the overall formulation of the country's development policies, plans, and programs be in accordance with the human rights-based approach to development. It stressed that special attention be given to vulnerable groups such as women ... [Para 11] -
State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:UN CompilationIssue:
- Women's and / or girls' rights
Type:Review DocumentationSession:13th session, June 2012Status:NeglectedContents:CESCR recommended that the Philippines adopt legislation recognizing the right of men and women to divorce, to obtain the legal severance of marital ties and to remarry after divorce. [Para 31] -
State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:Stakeholder SummaryIssue:
- Transgender persons' rights
Type:Review DocumentationSession:13th session, June 2012Status:Reference AddressedContents:STRAP made recommendations which included the adoption of legislation recognizing "transpinays" and "transpinoys" in one's chosen gender with no requirement for surgical modification of one's body. [Para 83] -
State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:National ReportIssue:
- Gender equality
- Violence against women / gender-based violence
- Women's and / or girls' rights
Type:Review DocumentationSession:1st session, April 2008Status:N/AContents:The Philippine criminal justice system has legal mechanisms for the protection of women, migrant workers, youth, indigenous peoples, and other vulnerable groups. At least 15 laws have been passed during the last decade on the protection of their rights. The PNP and NBI have established mechanisms for dealing with women, youth and children. The PNP operates Women and Children Protection Desks in police stations staffed by accordingly-trained policemen/policewomen. As mentioned earlier, the DSWD and civil society also maintain institutions to address needs of women and children in conflict with the law or victims of crimes. [Para 140] -
State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:IrelandIrelandRegional groupWEOGPolitical groupEUIssue:
- Discrimination based on sexual orientation
- Discrimination based on gender identity
Type:RecommendationSession:41st session, November 2022Status:Unclear ResponseContents:Adopt the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Expression Equality Act at national and local levels.
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:ArmeniaArmeniaRegional groupEEGPolitical groupCISOIFIssue:
- Sexual abuse
- Sexual exploitation / slavery
Type:RecommendationSession:41st session, November 2022Status:AcceptedContents:Take further steps to eliminate the sexual abuse and exploitation perpetrated against children.
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State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:TanzaniaTanzaniaRegional groupAfrica GroupPolitical groupAUCommonwealthIssue:
- Women's and / or girls' rights
Type:RecommendationSession:41st session, November 2022Status:AcceptedContents:Maintain the efforts already undertaken to further increase the enrolment of children in schools, especially that of girls.
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State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:NepalNepalRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupIssue:
- Sexual exploitation / slavery
Type:RecommendationSession:41st session, November 2022Status:AcceptedContents:Enhance measures to protect the rights of children against all forms of violence and sexual exploitation.
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State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:Republic of KoreaRepublic of KoreaRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupIssue:
- Gender equality
Type:RecommendationSession:13th session, June 2012Status:AcceptedContents:Fully implement the Magna Carta of Women for promoting gender equality.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 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 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:
- Trafficking in women and / or girls
Type:RecommendationSession:13th session, June 2012Status:AcceptedContents:Fight against human trafficking, especially in women and children.ImplementationNational Report:
Para 78) In 2016, the PNP-Women and Children Protection Center, launched a total of 42 TIP operations leading to the rescue of 267 victims, arrest of 74 alleged traffickers, and the filing of 28 cases before the Prosecutor’s Office. In addition, the National Bureau of Investigation’s (NBI) Anti-Human Trafficking Division has investigated a total of 248 Illegal Recruitment and 221 TIP cases, and conducted 12 rescue operations, leading to the arrest of 52 alleged traffickers and/or facilitators and the filing of 35 cases now pending in Prosecutor’s Offices and in courts.
Para 79) Moreover, pursuant to the “Children’s Emergency Relief and Protection Act” (R.A. 10821), upon the declaration of a state of calamity, the PNP and the DSWD, with the assistance of the AFP, immediately heightens comprehensive measures and monitoring to prevent child trafficking, labor, and prostitution, including domestic and sexual violence, in calamity-stricken areas.
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State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:MexicoMexicoRegional groupGRULACPolitical groupOASOEIACSIssue:
- Women's and / or girls' rights
Type:CommentSession:1st session, April 2008Status:Not Followed up with a RecommendationContents:Acknowledged the progress made by the Philippines relating to legislative progress on women's rights -
State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:SlovakiaSlovakiaRegional groupEEGPolitical groupEUIssue:
- International human rights instruments
Type:RecommendationSession:27th Session May 2017Status:Unclear ResponseContents:Ratify the OP-CRC-IC.ExplanationNoted. -
State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:IraqIraqRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupOICALIssue:
- Women's and / or girls' rights
Type:RecommendationSession:27th Session May 2017Status:AcceptedContents:Continue efforts to eliminate trade in men, women and children in order to exploit them in forced labour. -
State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:TunisiaTunisiaRegional groupAfrica GroupPolitical groupAUOICALOIFIssue:
- Women's participation
- Empowerment of women
Type:RecommendationSession:27th Session May 2017Status:Unclear ResponseContents:Work towards the economic empowerment of women and their enhanced presence in decision-making positions.ExplanationNoted. -
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:JS13 called for the prosecution of alleged violations of the rights of LGBT persons, which were fuels by conservative religious beliefs. [Para 26] -
State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:UN CompilationIssue:
- Marginalized groups of women
- Women's and / or girls' rights
Type:Review DocumentationSession:27th Session May 2017Status:NeglectedContents:The CEDAW was concerned at the widespread exploitation and abuse of Filipino women migrant workers working abroad, in particular domestic workers, and the insufficient support provided to reintegrate returning women migrant workers. [Para 92] -
State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:UN CompilationIssue:
- Marginalized groups of women
- Training for state personnel on sexual rights issues
- Sexual and / or reproductive rights and / or health broadly
Type:Review DocumentationSession:41st session, November 2022Status:Not Followed up with a RecommendationContents:Noting relevant concerns, the [CRPD] recommended that the Philippines, inter alia: (a) ensure that women, girls and persons with psychosocial disabilities had comprehensive access to sexual reproductive health and community-based rehabilitation services in rural and remote areas; (b) increase health-care professionals’ training on the provision of sexual and reproductive health-care education and services to such persons; and (c) strengthen training for all regional health workers nationwide by reactivating the Reproductive Health Law.
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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:UN CompilationIssue:
- Gender equality
Type:Review DocumentationSession:13th session, June 2012Status:Reference AddressedContents:In 2011, the ILO Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations (ILO Committee of Experts) urged the Philippines to take the opportunity provided by the adoption of the Magna Carta of Women, which came into force in 2009, to adopt the necessary legislation or amendments for the protection of women ... [Para 14] -
State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:Stakeholder SummaryIssue:
- Sexual exploitation / slavery
Type:Review DocumentationSession:13th session, June 2012Status:Reference AddressedContents:... JC made recommendations, including the taking of urgent measures to combat the sex slave trade. [Para 65] -
State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:National ReportIssue:
- Violence against women / gender-based violence
Type:Review DocumentationSession:1st session, April 2008Status:N/AContents:The Supreme Court has created a Committee on Gender-Responsiveness in the Judiciary. In support of the Violence against Women and Their Children (VAWC) Act, the Court issued the Rule on Violence Against Women and their Children, which seeks to protect the rights of the family and its members, particularly women and children, from violence and threats to their personal safety and security, and enables the courts to manage and monitor such cases. [Para 74] -
State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:TogoTogoRegional groupAfrica GroupPolitical groupAUOICOIFIssue:
- International human rights instruments
Type:RecommendationSession:41st session, November 2022Status:Unclear ResponseContents:Proceed with the ratification of the OP-ICESCR.
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:DjiboutiDjiboutiRegional groupAfrica GroupPolitical groupAUOICALOIFIssue:
- International human rights instruments
Type:RecommendationSession:41st session, November 2022Status:AcceptedContents:Consider ratifying the OP-ICCPR, as well as the OP-CRPD.
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State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:BangladeshBangladeshRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupOICCommonwealthIssue:
- Maternal health / morbidity / mortality
- Forced sterilization
- Adolescent pregnancy
Type:RecommendationSession:41st session, November 2022Status:AcceptedContents:Pursue effective measures to reduce maternal mortality and protect adolescent girls as well as to forced sterilization of women.
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State Under Review:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANSource Of Reference:MauritiusMauritiusRegional groupAfrica GroupPolitical groupAUOIFCommonwealthIssue:
- Violence against women / gender-based violence
Type:RecommendationSession:41st session, November 2022Status:AcceptedContents:Establish or promote an appropriate framework to protect women against gender-based violence.