    Fact Finding and RH Inquiry (Regions X, CAR, CARAGA, Region VII, NCR) Training of Trainors for WWDs (NCR) Module Writeshop: Access to Reproductive Justice for WWDs Trainings with WWDs in Mindanao (Region X, Region XI) The project secretariat facilitated a short side workshop with representatives of regional offices to (1) assess the regional office’s performance in relation to its Gender Ombud functions in Protection, Promotion, Policy; (2) identify the areas for improvement; (3) determine programs and activities based on gender issues in respective areas of responsibilities and in the fulfillment of Gender Ombud functions which can be programmed and included in the GEWHRC’s 2020 indicative budget. Review of Herstory of Women’s Human Rights: A Herstory of Exclusion The presentation pointed out that there is no need to be averse to feminism as women ‘s human rights advocacy has benefitted from the former. It also traced the long struggle for women’s human rights which has been a struggle too against exclusion in different fields and levels. Based on the English Common Law, patriarchy is pronounced in the 11th and 12th centuries through coverture or a legal doctrine where upon marriage, a woman’s legal rights are subsumed by her husband. Exclusion in the legal profession has been cited in Bradwell vs. Illinois (1873), “The civil law as well as nature itself, has always recognized a wide difference in the respective spheres and destinies of man and woman. Man is, or should be, woman’s protector and defender. The natural and proper timidity and delicacy which belongs to the female sex evidently unfits it for many of the occupations of civil life…The paramount destiny and mission of woman are to fulfil the noble and benign offices of wife and mother”. Too, feminist and women’s right movements recorded struggle for rights claiming through the years particularly in the right to vote, to education, to employment, to participation, and those concerning equality, legalization and child marriages ions, among others. These movements proceeded from the First Wave which covered the right to education and suffrage (19th to early 20th century), Second Wave which focused on bodily autonomy (1960s-1970s) to the Third Wave which centered on intersectionality (1990s-onwards). The United Nations (UN) developed an international system of protection of human rights though three earliest HR instruments: Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), and International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). However, struggle for Women’s Human Rights within the United Nations has also been noted in the “very little interest in women’s rights at the UN” [with] …majority of high-ranking UN officials were men and there were only a few women ambassadors in the 1960s and 1970s. 10