EnGendeRights, Inc. Asserting Gender Equality June 9, 2016 TO: CEDAW Secretariat Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Palais Wilson -52, rue des Pâquis CH-1201 Geneva, Switzerland Email: cedaw@ohchr.org Cc: iwraw-ap@iwraw-ap.org SUBMITTED BY: EnGendeRights, Inc. OutRight Action International (OutRight) Society of Transsexual Women of the Philippines (STRAP) ASEAN SOGIE Caucus (ASC) Association of Transgender People in the Philippines (ATP) Bahaghari Advocacy Group Benilde Hive Bohol LGBTs, Families, Friends, and Allies Catholic Diocese of One-Spirit Philippines Coalition for the Liberation of the Reassigned Sex (COLORS) Cordillera Rainbow Connection DowneLink Philippines Community Filipino Free Thinkers Galang Philippines ILGA World Trans* Secretariat Initiative and Movement for Gender Liberation against Discrimination (IM GLAD) Ipride Manila Kapederasyon LGBT Organization LADLAD Caraga LGBT Bus LGBT Pinoyed Metropolitan Community Church – Metro Baguio Metropolitan Community Church – Quezon City Metropolitan Community Church of Marikina Old Balara Pride Council Pinoy FTM Pinoy LGBT Channel, Philippine Online Chronicles Promoting Rights and Equality for Society's Marginalized (PRISM) 1

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