5. Create spaces for dialogues or grassroots discussions on community and culture-based processes and mechanisms also accessed by GBV
victim-survivors.
● Not because the perpetrator was jailed or that you got the consolation, this is already justice.
After the presentation, the following questions were raised:
ISSUES AND CONCERNS
Shiela: Have you encountered women using
social media as the reporting platform,
instead of going through the legal process.
Also those who want to shame the
perpetrators using radio stations and tv
shows like Tulfo.
Mae Arellano from Women Care Center: We
know that mediation is very much against,
because we are talking about gender-based
violence.
It is still practice of the barangay, and it is
being implemented nationwide.
How to stop mediation? This contributes to
the factors why women are forced to be
silent on the abuses done to them.
Also, what happens to the cases where the
woman did not continue with the case
because it’s expensive and exhausting, and it
DISCUSSIONS
AGREEMENTS
(who said what)
(if any)
Len: We have not included that in the research That Commissioner Karen: That can be part of the
could be another research large project. We just
call for papers in the near future.
know a barangay who are using their facebook
page to promote their VAWC desk and some people
are reporting through that platform. That is a very
nice dissertation for Twyla.
Len: There really is this big gap. Some women do Twyla: We are very grateful for our consultants.
not want their name to be included in the blotter What we can say from this is that it expanded
book. They just want to share their story. This has our view on GBV. Many organizations are
an implication to our service provider. Because looking at it not just as law but also the lived
how many hours can they accommodate knowing experiences of women. I think that CHR as
Gender Ombud must document all these and
that the victims are not willing to go on record.
channel them into policy recommendations
Arellano: The service provider should be while working with agencies and organizations
affirmative and listen. It is important that so that the lived experiences of women would
somebody listen, give importance to it, and look inform the policy and proposed law
for referrals. At that time, she may not be ready, amendments. Anti-VAWC law has been in
but in the future, she may be. The service provider placed for 15 years now but mediation still
can still assess the situation.
MAKING DATA WORK FOR WOMEN: VALIDATION OF FRAMEWORK AND RESEARCH FINDINGS ON GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE
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