CEDAW/C/PHI/4 English Page 27 education. These non-governmental organizations work closely with the Department of Education, Culture and Sports. 51. There have been curricular innovations in order to counter the stereotyping of sex roles. Among these is the adoption of practical arts subjects such a work education and home economics as common learning areas for girls and boys. The gender and development focal point of the above Department has identified as priority intervention the integration of gender-fair core values and concepts in the curricula of the three levels of education as well as in the in-service training programmes for teachers and school administrators. 52. In view of the issues which involve Filipino overseas contract workers, studies have been made to find out how Government officials assigned abroad, especially in countries where female workers abound, can become more gendersensitive and responsive. Already a gender reorientation is conducted regularly by NCRFW at the Foreign Service Institute; diplomats, consular officials, and other personnel posted abroad have to undergo this training before their foreign assignments. 53. Various non-governmental organizations, such as the Women's Legal Bureau, Pilipina Legal Resource Center, Kalayaan, Sibol (a network of women's organizations advocating pro-women legislation) conduct legal literacy programmes to popularize human rights. Makabayang Kababaihan ng Masa (MAKAMASA) conducts a feminist literacy programme among urban poor women to celebrate womanhood, foster sisterhood and promote feminist values. KABAPA, a peasant women's organization, conducts awareness and information campaigns on the Convention. 54. Media groups such as the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility, and the Center for Investigative Journalism, and individual women from the media, are undertaking workshops to sensitize media practitioners. 55. In spite of these efforts, more effective networking is needed to carry out sustained information campaigns among the rural poor who are the primary consumers of radio broadcasts in which women continue to be stereotyped in dramas and advertisements. Even greater effort is needed to curb the current trend in Philippine movies where true-to-life massacres of mostly women and children are shown; in television programmes where women are often depicted as dumb, weak, hopeless romantics etc.; and in tabloids which sensationalize rape and other violence against women. III. ARTICLE 6 Suppression of traffic in women and exploitation of prostitution 56. After some 15 years of fighting against the trafficking and exploitation of women, prostitution and sexual exploitation in different forms are still very much around. Women non-governmental organizations have pointed out that "development" prostitution has flourished in port areas, industrial estates, regional capitals and tourist resorts that provide transients with women for sex. For the reporting period, some progress has been made in terms of policies /...