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agencies and schools to organize nationwide awareness campaigns on all forms of
violence against women.
Gender sensitivity training and seminars for 791 justices and lawyers of the
Supreme Court, the Sandiganbayan which is our anti-graft court, the Court of
Appeals and the lower courts have been held. Seminars on women’s and children’s
rights were conducted for 10,443 court interpreters, court social workers, clerks of
court, lawyers and aspirants to judicial posts. Close to 4,000 judges, lawyers,
prosecutors, court personnel, representatives of government agencies, local
government officials, and representatives of civil society groups have undergone
seminars on anti-trafficking in persons.
Moreover, information caravans dealing with the Magna Carta on Women and
on the issue of violence against women were held in six provinces, reaching over a
thousand people.
Other regular annual campaigns, like the Women’s Month
Celebration and the 18-Day Campaign to End Violence Against Women, were also
conducted where government agencies, schools and other institutions implement
their own activities to raised awareness on CEDAW and other international human
rights conventions, and the Magna Carta of Women.
Today, we have reaped the benefits of our information and education
campaigns. Increase in the number of cases of violence against women reported to
the police and prosecution service has been deemed as a positive development as
more women have gained courage to report abuses against them to authorities.
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