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LAWS ON WOMEN

Mifana, Divine Grace Pua, Rochel April

Republic Act No. 9262 Anti-Violence Against Women and their Children Act of 2004

Republic Act No. 9262

Anti-Violence Children Act of 2004

Against

Women

and

their

Republic Act No. 7877

Sexual Harassment Law

Republic Act No. 9208

Anti-Trafficking In Persons Act of 2003

Republic Act No. 9262 Anti-Violence Against Women and their Children Act of 2004

Violence against women and the their children


any act or series of acts by any person against

his:

wife, former wife, or with whom the person has/had sexual or dating relationship, or with whom he has a common child, or against her child whether legitimate or illegitimate, within or without the family abode

which result in or is likely to result in physical, sexual, psychological harm or suffering, or economic abuse

Terms and Definitions


Battery

Stalking
Dating Relationship

Sexual Relations
Children

Specific Acts of Violence Penalized under the Law


1. Sexual violence

Rape

sexual harassment
acts of lasciviousness treating a woman or her child as sex object

making demeaning and sexually suggestive remarks


physically attacking the sexual parts of the victims body forcing her/him to watch obscene publications and indecent shows or forcing the woman or her child to do indecent acts and/or make films forcing the wife and mistress/lover to live in the conjugal home or

sleep together in the same room with the abuser;

Specific Acts of Violence Penalized under the Law


Sexual violence Acts causing or attempting to cause the victim to engage in any sexual activity by force, threat of force, physical or other harm or threat of physical or other harm or coercion;

Prostituting the woman or her child.

Specific Acts of Violence Penalized under the Law

2. Psychological violence acts or omissions causing or likely to cause mental or emotional suffering of the victim such as intimidation, harassment, stalking, damage to property, public ridicule or humiliation, repeated verbal abuse and marital infidelity.

Specific Acts of Violence Penalized under the Law


3. Economic abuse
That make or attempt to make a woman financially dependent Withdrawal of financial support or preventing victim from engaging in any legitimate profession, occupation, business or activity, except in cases wherein the other spouse/partner objects on valid, serious and moral grounds as defined in Article 73 of the Family Code; Deprivation or threat of deprivation of financial sources and the right to the use and enjoyment of the conjugal, community or property owned in common; Destroying household property; Controlling the victims own money or properties or solely controlling the conjugal money or properties.

Specific Acts of Violence Penalized under the Law


4. Battering, assault, coercion, harassment or arbitrary deprivation of liberty. Acts committed: Causing physical harm to the woman or her child;

Threatening to cause the woman or her child physical harm;


Attempting to cause the woman or her child physical harm; Placing the woman or her child in fear of imminent physical harm;

Specific Acts of Violence Penalized under the Law


Attempting to compel or compelling the woman or her child to engage in conduct which they have the right to desist from or to desist from conduct which they have the right to engage in, or attempting to restrict or restricting their freedom of movement or conduct by force, threat of force, physical or other harm, threat thereof, intimidation directed against the woman or child.

Specific Acts of Violence Penalized under the Law


Inflicting of threatening to inflict physical harm on oneself for the purpose of controlling her actions or decisions; Causing or attempting to cause woman or her child to engage in any sexual activity not constituting rape, by force or threat of force, physical harm, or through intimidation directed against the woman or her child or her/his immediate family;

Specific Acts of Violence Penalized under the Law


Engaging in purposeful, knowing or reckless conduct, personally or through another that alarms or causes substantial emotional or psychological distress. Causing mental or emotional anguish, public ridicule, and humiliation to the woman or her child

Protective Policies under the Law


A petition for protection order may be filed by any of the following:

the offended party;


parents or guardians of the offended party;

ascendants, descendants, collateral relatives within the 4th civil degree of consanguinity or affinity;
officers or social workers of the DSWD or of Local Government units;

Police officers, preferably those in charge of women and childrens desks;

Punong Barangay or Barangay Kagawad;


Lawyer, counselor, therapist or healthcare provider of petitioner; At least two concerned responsible citizens of city/municipality where the offense is committed and who has personal knowledge of the offense committed.

Battered Woman
is one who is repeatedly subjected to any forceful physical or psychological behavior by a man in order to coerce her to do something he wants her to do without concern for her rights.

Battered women
exhibit common personality traits:

low self-esteem traditional beliefs about the home, the family and the female sex role;

emotional dependence upon the dominant male;


the tendency to accept responsibility for the batterers actions; and

false hopes that the relationship will improve.

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