FOREWORD for Media Alternatives (FMA) prepared this country report as part of the broader T hestudyFoundation conducted by the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) on End violence: women’s rights and safety online, which involve seven different countries. It looks into the existing legal remedies and corporate policies in the Philippines as they relate to technology-related violence against women (VAW). In recent years, the media has directed the world’s attention to the increasing prevalence of technology-related VAW incidents in the Philippine context, and the urgent need to raise the people’s awareness and recognition of this worsening social malaise. Despite the existence of relevant laws on the subject—such as Republic Act No. 9995, otherwise known as the Anti-photo and Video Voyeurism Act, Republic Act No. 9775 or the Anti-Child Pornography Act, and Republic Act No. 10175 or the Cybercrime Prevention Act, to name a few—their effectiveness as exhibited through proper implementation and the prosecution of reported offenses has yet to be seen. This report provides a glimpse on how women and girls in the domestic milieu experience violence in the digital space, and the response provided by municipal laws, including the corporate policies of local internet service providers, to such instances of technology-related VAW. For this purpose, FMA documented and analyzed three relevant and fairly recent cases that make up the crux of this text. To be sure, there remains a large area to explore insofar as the effects and influence of technology— particularly ICTs—on women’s human rights. This document represents but a critical first step in a more comprehensive inquiry that FMA hopes to be involved with, as it continues its mission of assisting in the promotion and protection of gender rights in the digital environments and in the global information society. ALAN G. ALEGRE Executive Director Foundation for Media Alternatives, Philippines <End Violence: Women’s Rights and Safety Online> 1