Philippine Alliance of Women With Disabilities Likewise, there have been no efforts to implement critical provisions of the 2008 Magna Carta of Women on women with disabilities on social protection: Sect 27 (e) The State shall support women with disabilities on a community-based social protection scheme. These measures would address the gender disparity in economic status between women with disabilities and other women without disabilities, as well as between men and women with disabilities. Recommendation for Special Measures: Following General Recommendation No. 25, implement fully and monitor annually all gender-related special measures mandated by domestic law, particularly the Magna Carta of Women and all of its inclusive, as well as disability-specific provisions which impact women and girls with disabilities. On Sex Role Stereotyping and Prejudice Information on recent developments 1. Widespread prejudice and gender stereotypes even among victims of violence continue to exist, and be expressed blatantly in public even by high-ranking State officials. This includes offensive remarks by a presidential candidate in the recent national elections, now the President-elect himself12. Such views reek of machismo, perpetuate victim-blaming, and other views that e.g., victims of violence are not competent to give testimony, and various negative attitudes of law enforcers, judges and other personnel of the legal and judicial systems. Even despite being declared as violations of human rights in the context of the Magna Carta of Women13, these acts are not prosecuted nor sanctioned, and are just dismissed as being part of humor and banter. 2. Attitudes and prejudice are also reflected by officers of the National Bureau of Investigation and trial courts in what they imply as routine psychiatric assessments of rape victims, including women and girls with disabilities even without any provisions for accessibility (i.e., sign language interpretation for deaf women and girls)14. Confusion in law enforcement and the legal system over the difference between psychological evaluation (for cognition) and psychiatric evaluation (for psychosocial conditions) also aggravate this prejudice against deaf women and girls as being intellectually or mentally incompetent, a label that they have to carry all their lives. Recommendation for Sex Role Stereotyping and Prejudice: Eliminate discriminatory stereotypes and prejudice, and reinforce awareness-raising programmes targeting both national and local State officials, on the negative effects of these discriminatory stereotypes on women’s enjoyment of their human rights. On Violence against women and girls with disabilities Women victims of violence, especially women with disabilities, are typically further traumatized by ineffective access to justice. Gender-based violence among women and girls with disabilities is also virtually exclusively documented by civil society. 15 In 2005, one out of three deaf women of 60 respondents were reported to be raped in Manila and Cebu. Of 243 cases filed by deaf complainants, rape 12 Rights complaint filed after Duterte’s rape remark. http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/780557/rights-complaint-filed-afterdutertes-rape-remark; Ranada, P. “Duterte: Not sorry for rape remark, that's how I speak”. 17 April 2016. http://www.rappler.com/nation/politics/elections/2016/129844-duterte-reaction-rape-joke-australian-woman 13 Duterte rape comment violated Magna Carta of Women—CHR. http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/787426/duterte-rapecomment-violated-magna-carta-of-women-chr#ixzz4B0HYJ6ng 14 PDRC / Deaf Resources Philippines case notes 2016., 15 Access to Justice: Case Monitoring Report by the Philippine Deaf Resource Center (2006-2012) 4