CEDAW/C/PHI/5-6 Anti-Trafficking of Persons Act in 2003, the functions of the Council was transferred to the Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking. c. The CFO Foreign Sponsor Watchlist System was put in place to facilitate access to information on foreign partners. The agency is particularly concerned with checking multiple sponsors or serial sponsors, especially those with record of domestic violence. An information and case monitoring system, which maintains sexdisaggregated data, documents and monitors cases referred to CFO for assistance. CFO has reportedly encoded 171 cases involving trafficking, immigration and family relations, among others, and recorded 731 foreign nationals who petitioned at least two Filipino fiancées and spouses for the year 1996 to 2000. Eleven cases of domestic violence were reported. Concerned parties are subjected to more rigorous evaluation and counseling process. d. Filipino women departing as fiancées or spouses of foreign nationals are provided a list of migrant support network groups that extend aid to migrants in their country of destination. In addition, CFO maintains its links with overseas Filipinos through feedback forms and personal correspondence between counselors and clients to identify, on a continuing basis, critical areas for possible government intervention. REMAINING ISSUES AND CHALLENGES 558. In terms of ensuring the sharing of responsibility in the upbringing and development of children, the social welfare department has undertaken a project called ERPAT or “Empowerment and Reaffirmation of Paternal Responsibilities” (also a Filipino colloquial for “father”) that aims to develop the skills of fathers in childrearing and care giving. Part of a national program for training fathers to become trainers to other fathers in the community, it has trained a total of 186 fathers as trainers. NGOs have been engaged in this type of program in other areas. 559. Provisions in the law cited in the fourth report as discriminatory to women or inconsistent with new laws persist. These laws are found in the Family Code, the Civil Code, the Code of Muslim Personal Laws, the Revised Penal Code, and Customary Law. For instance, contrary to the 1997 Family Code, the Revised Penal Code (Article 333 and 334) continued to define sexual infidelity separately in marriage—adultery on the part of the wife and concubinage on the part of the husband. It has been argued that it takes only one act for a woman to be charged with adultery, while the man’s infidelity can only be proved if the relationship has been going on an extended period, such that there is a separate residence for the mistress or even children between the two. Moreover, the crime of adultery carries stiffer penalties compared with concubinage. For the former, the penalty of prision correccional in its medium (2 years, 4 months and 1 day up to 4 years and 2 months) and maximum period (4 years, 2 months and one day to 6 years). On the other hand, concubinage may be meted with the penalty of prision correccional in its minimum (6 months and 1 day to 2 years and 4 months) and medium period. 560. Efficiency and effectiveness in Shari’a Courts, which handle cases covered by the Code of Muslim Personal Laws (CMPL), is called for. Studies show that Muslim women filed more than 80 percent of cases docketed in these courts. Most complaints related to divorce, recovery 147