of the LGBT community reported having experienced physical, verbal, emotional and
sexual abuse within their homes, in schools, in their workplaces.
Some report
having been denied health care and restricted from using public facilities (such as
the LRT and MRT).
According to the Trans Murder Monitoring
Project, a pilot project of
Transgender Europe, there were 40 transgender or gender-variant people who were
killed in the Philippines between January 2008 and December 2015.
Children
Discrimination against children takes the form of physical, sexual and
psychological abuse.
According
to
International
Labor Organization
(ILO)
studies
in
2012,
approximately 2 million Filipino children were exposed to hazardous working
environments, such as in quarries and mines. There were also at least 246,011
street children nationwide, 11,346 of which were in Metro Manila alone.
Children continue to be recruited by non-state armed groups. According to
anecdotal reports, some criminal syndicates use minors to carry out their illegal
activities. They were also victims of police abuse while in detention for committing
minor crimes.
Persons With Disabilities (PWDs)
Despite the passage o f Republic Act No. 10070 in 2010, which established
institutional mechanisms to ensure implementation of programs and services for
PWDs, only six of every 10 local government units had Persons with Disability Affairs
Office in 2018. More than half of the provinces (58% ) and higher income
municipalities (63% ) are non-compliant with the Act.
A 2013 study conducted by Christian D. Mina entitled, "Employment o f
Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) in the Philippines: The Case o f Metro Manila and
Rosario, Batangad' as part of the Discussion Paper Series No. 2013 of the Philippine
Institute for Development Studies stated that less than 10 percent of more than
100,000 employable PWDs registered with the DOLE were wage-employed. Majority
of the employed PWDs in rural and urban areas are considered "vulnerable workers"
since most have informal work arrangements and are less likely to have access to
employment benefits or social protection programs.