Panel 2: Expert Panel on WPS - Urgent Issues and the role of CHR as Gender Ombud Guide Questions: 1. What are the current & pressing issues of WPS in the context of your organization’s work? 2. What role do you envision/expect that CHR as Gender Ombud should play/prioritize in WPS? Expert Panel Speakers 1. ​Ms. Judy Pasimio​, LILAK Purple Action for Women a. Hindi po nainvolve ang LILAK sa pagbubuo ng National Action Plan on Women, Peace, and Security, hindi sya yung area na ginagalawan ng LILAK. Pero dahil po naimbitahan kami na magsalita, at ang tanong ay ano yung current and pressing issues of WPS, ang s Our government is led by anti women, has poured blood in all over the roads to peace, has waged war against us, against human rights defenders, the poor, against women...and has put at risk everything - our security, our sovereignty, our lives, and our future. b. So yung kinwento po ng mga nasa frontline natin na mga CSOs and People's Organizations, at maski yung mga CHR Regional Offices, nafflesh out po ng sitwasyon natin ngayon. Three years into power, the Duterte administration has wreaked havoc on women, peace, and security. Kung paguusapan po natin ang armed conflict, the entire country is caught in a conflict situation. The war on drugs, tens of thousands, 27,000 in 2018, and more – pero nung nakaraang buwan, nagkumahog po yung PNP, na baguhin yung records nila. Bumaba yung mga napatay at tumaas yung bilang ng mga pulis na put into justice daw. But so far, sa records po, maski na binabanggit ni Comm. Karen Dumpit, iilan lang talaga ang nagkaroon ng penalty, yung iba nilipat lang. c. Children as ‘collateral damage’. ​More than a hundred children, babies in fact are some of them, have been considered collateral damage in this war on drugs. Situations in indigenous communities in this war have not been fully or systematically documented. Yun din po yung gusto kong itanong sana sa regional offices kasi pag kausap po namin yung mga katutubo for example sa Saranggani, ang mga kwento po talaga nila ay P10,000 otherwise, isasama ka sa listahan sa tokhang. Sa Zamboanga Sibugay, sabi nung Tinuay na kausap namin, palitan ang patayan dun. Kung hindi sa nagpoprotesta sa Consunji, nilalagyan na lang ng “ako ay isang drug addict, wag tularan”. So there are indigenous victims but these are not recorded. So I imagine the 27,000 plus, which are mostly in Central Luzon, parang hindi yun nasasama yung iba na nasa kanayunan at sa mga katutubong pamayanan. Page 44​ of 62