Telling our stories in pictures: Our photo gallery
Private and Public Faces of Violence Against Women (RedAVP)
Download the project brief in Tagalog (PDF, 2.1 Mb)
This project is made possible with the support of the European Union
Private and Public Faces of Violence Against Women: Addressing Domestic Violence and Trafficking In the Urban Poor Communities of Angeles City and Olongapo City
Both trafficking and violence against women are human rights violations that States parties to international human rights conventions, particularly the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and the Convention Against Trafficking (CAT), are obligated to address. In the Philippines, several laws have already been enacted to protect and fulfil women’s human rights from trafficking and violence. However, implementation of these laws remains amiss, particularly at the local level.
Private and Public Faces of Violence Against Women focuses on two key strategies in addressing the issues: community education and capacity building of major stakeholders (e.g. LGUs, local grassroots women’s organizations, direct service providers such as social workers and police, victim-survivors of trafficking and VAWC). Towards this end, the project forwards the following specific objectives:
- to identify factors constraining the effective implementation of the anti-trafficking and anti-VAWC laws in the selected areas, from a rights and gender-based perspective; and
- to build the capacities of stakeholders to address the identified factors hindering the protection and fulfilment of the right against trafficking and violence.
The first specific objective seeks to ground the project activity themes and approaches to the current reality of trafficking and VAWC in Angles and Olongapo City. Using the information gathered to accomplish this objective, the second specific objective aims to enable stakeholders to address the barriers to effective intervention in trafficking and VAWC cases.
Angeles City Mayor Francis Nepomuceno signs the Memorandum of Agreement along with Heide Patio (left) of the City Social Welfare & Development and Edna Manlapaz of the Angeles University Foundation (right). Project Manager Aida Santos looks on.
The launch banner
Partner Organizations
