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MANILA, Philippines -- Amendments to the anti-sexual harassment law are being pushed by lawmakers at the House of Representatives who are seeking to update the definition of the offense, especially in the workplace, and the imposition of stronger penalties.

Gabriela Representatives Liza Maza and Luzviminda Ilagan said amendments were needed because even with the existence for over a decade of the anti-sexual harassment law or Republic Act 7877, convictions were few.

The World Social Forum: Past Achievements, Present Dilemmas, and Future Hopes is a community forum on the WSF, global coalition movements, and local activisms. The event begun with a keynote address by leading world-systems and anti-systemic movements scholar Immanuel Wallerstein on the World Social Forum in historical perspective, and was followed by a dozen respondents from the Bay Area representing a range of social justice movements who will speak to questions of local and transnational challenges and possibilities for organizing global coalition networks.