UPR Sexual Rights Database

Adopt the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Expression Equality Act at national and local levels.

The International Women's Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific, Action Canada for Population and Development, the Latin American Committee for the Defence of Women's Rights, the Centre for reproductive rights and the Federation for Women and Family Planning called on the Government to reject the recommendation made by the Holy See in paragraph 58 of the report of the Working Group, calling for the protection of children in the womb. The recommendation is contrary to the concluding comments of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women in which it urged the Government to remove the punitive provisions imposed on women who have abortions and to reduce women's maternal mortality rates in line with the Committee's general recommendation No. 24 on women and health and the Beijing Platform for Action. The recommendation contravenes the findings of the treaty monitoring bodies that access to safe and legal abortion is a matter of women's right to life, health, non-discrimination and dignity based on interpretations of human rights norms, commitments in global consensus documents and evidence of the impact of unsafe abortion on women's health.

Enhance measures to protect the rights of children against all forms of violence and sexual exploitation.

Appreciated the efforts made by the Philippines to guarantee the rights of women

Consider the possibility of ratifying the OP-ICESCR.

At the local level, 63 local government units have enacted GAD Codes and 1,650 local women's or GAD councils have been created. Implementation of programs that address gender issues such as violence against women and women's health services have improved. Regional GAD Resource Centers have been set up in 8 regions to provide technical assistance. [Para 68]

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]

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]

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.

CMA called for ... a broadened public information campaign on the rehabilitation programme for women victims [of trafficking]. [Para 70]

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]

Consider ratifying the OP-ICCPR, as well as the OP-CRPD.