CEDAW/C/PHL/Q/7-8 developed and implemented to specifically address social and cultural patterns that lead to patriarchal attitudes and gender stereotyping of the roles of women and men in the family, the community and the wider society, including initiatives involving collaboration with traditional and community leaders and women’s organizations. Violence against women 7. Please provide updated information on the current legal and policy framework addressing violence against women in the State party and on specific results achieved by the implementation of that framework. Please also provide information on the prevalence of violence against women, including domestic violence, rape and sexual violence, and in particular, violence in armed conflict and during disasters and calamities (para. 49). Please specify whether comprehensive data on the incidence of all forms of violence against women are being collected and what they reveal in terms of trends. Please also provide information on measures taken to ensure that victims of violence, including women with disabilities, have access to high quality protection and support services, including shelters and rehabilitation programmes. In addition, please update the Committee on the progress achieved in operationalizing the national violence documentation syste m at the national level (para. 53). Please also provide information on measures taken to ensure full compliance with the views adopted by the Committee in communications No. 18/2008, Vertido v. the Philippines, and No. 34/2011, R.P.B. v. the Philippines. Trafficking and exploitation of prostitution 8. The Committee notes the adoption of the amended Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act (para. 67) and the progress made in combating trafficking in women and girls (para. 64). Please provide information on how systematic monitoring and evaluation of the various anti-trafficking programmes are ensured. The State party has also made reference to the Philippine anti-trafficking in persons database (para. 72) and the national recovery and reintegration database (para. 73). Please provide updated comprehensive, disaggregated data and statistics on the number of complaints, investigations and prosecutions (specifying the offences), convictions and sentences handed down for the crime of trafficking, as well as the types o f protection and compensation provided to women victims. Please describe policies and procedures for the early identification of victims of trafficking, in particular women and girls. It is indicated that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Plan of Action to Combat Transnational Crime was implemented between 2010 and 2012 to further strengthen regional and international cooperation and that the results of the assessment of the Plan of Action are being used as a basis in the continuing discussion on a possible convention on trafficking in persons and regional plan of action (para. 66). Please update the Committee on the efforts undertaken to ensure bilateral, regional and international cooperation to prevent trafficking and on whether any progress has been made in ratifying the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (para. 65). 9. According to the information before the Committee, the total number of people exploited for prostitution in the Philippines in 2014 may have been as high as 800,000, the majority being women, and hundreds of victims are subjected to forced prostitution each day in well-known and highly visible business establishments that cater to both domestic and foreign demand for commercial sex 15-20931 3/7