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MAGNA CARTA OF WOMEN
Signed Into Law on August 14, 2009
What is the Magna Carta of Women?
* Comprehensive women’s human right law
* Seeks to eliminate discrimination against women
* Recognizing, protecting, fulfilling and promoting the right of Filipino women, especially those in the marginalized sectors
6 Chapters and 17 Sections of Magna Carta of Women (MCW)
* General Provisions
* Definition of Terms
* Duties Related to the Human Rights of Women
* Right and Empowerment
* Rights and Empowerment of Marginalized
* Sectors
* Institutional Mechanism
What is embedded in the MCW?
* Affirms the role of Women in Nation
* Ensures substantive equality among men and women’s right as Human Rights
* Affirms women’s right as human rights condemns discrimination against women:
* CEDAW
* Other international instrumentalities consistent with Philippine Laws
DECLARATION OF POLICY
* Provides for intensification of efforts to fulfill its duties under international and domestic laws to:
* Recognize
* Respect
* Protect
* Fulfill and
* Promote women’s rights and freedom (i.e. marginalized women in all field)
* Reaffirms the right of women to participate in:
* Policy formation
* Planning
* Organization
* Implementation
* Management monitoring and
* Evaluation of all policies, and services that affect them
HUMAN RIGHTS’ PRINCIPLE OF WOMEN:
* Universal and inalienable
* Indivisible
* Interdependent and interrelated
* All individuals are equal as Human beings
* Rights Based Approach
Chapter IV: Rights and Empowerment. Right to Protection from Violence (Sec. 9)
* Mandatory human rights and gender – sensitivity training for all government, personnel involved in the protection and defense of women against gender – based violence.
* Outlawing the expulsion and non – readmission of women faculty due to pregnancy outside of marriage.
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