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The militant Partido
Manggagawa took issue with the stand of Senator Raffy Tulfo to amend the VAWC Law
as codified his proposed Senate Bill 211 (SBN 211).
“Kinakailangan magpakita
ng datos at matibay na batayan si Sen. Tulfo para magkaroon ng basehan ang
kanyang panukalang baguhin ang VAWC para bigyan ng ispesyal na katayuan ang
lalaki kumpara sa nanay at anak para mabigyan ng pantay na proteksyon at parusa
sa SBN 211,” according to Judy Ann Miranda, Secretary-General of Partido Manggagawa
(PM).
The group argued that a special
law for women and children, such as the Republic Act No. 9262 or the
Anti-Violence Against Women and Children Act of 2004, exists because domestic
abuse against women and children has been pervasive and entrenched in
Philippine society. Thus, it is not a law against men.
“We do not discount the
fact that there may be men who are domestically abused by their wives/partners.
In which case, there are provisions in the Penal Code (Articles 262, 263 and
265) and Article 72 of the new Family Code which they can use to file a
complaint against their partners,” Miranda added.
The Philippines signed
the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
(CEDAW) 15 July 1980 and ratified it on 5 August 1981. After more than three
decades, the problem remains. At the global level, the World Health
Organization (WHO, 2021) estimated that “1 in 3 (30%) of women worldwide have
been subjected to either physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or
non-partner sexual violence in their lifetime,” mostly intimate partner
violence.
“However, it should be
clear to us why there is a special law specifically on domestic violence for
women and children. RA 9262 gives out the message that wife-beating is not a
trivial matter in Philippine society and that these abuses warrant a guarantee
of protection and support from the government. We do not want male violence
that is pervasive and entrenched in our society to be safely ignored and
ridiculed by a proposed bill that would warrant equal protection for men,”
Miranda concluded.
22 August 2022
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