CEDAW/C/PHI/4 English Page 15 (9) Senate Bill No. 1322 (1993), making sexual intercourse with a daughter or granddaughter below 17 years old statutory rape and imposing a mandatory death penalty. (10) House Bill No. 5143 (1992), institutionalizing additional measures to prevent the commercial "sexploitation" of Filipino women. (11) House Bill No. 4389 (1992), penalizing any advertising agency, television, radio station and publication which exploits women and glorifies sexual violence in its advertisements. (12) House Bill No. 876 (1992) and Senate Bill No. 209 (1992), establishing a community women's support centre in every depressed barangay in the country. (13) House Bill No. 699, (1992), prescribing certain conditions in the investigation and trial of cases involving the crime of rape. (14) Senate Bill No. 541 (1992), exempting a woman from the battered wife syndrome from criminal liability if she should kill her husband while in the act of battery against her. Presidential directives 4. Policy changes were also manifested through various executive orders, presidential directives, memorandum circulars, department orders, and other policy issuances. An exhaustive list is presented below with only very brief descriptions. Details and more substantive discussion and analysis of their impact on women are further presented in subsequent articles where they are directly relevant. (1) Civil Service Commission (CSC), Series of 1995, enhancing women's career opportunities in government service by developing and implementing programmes that will institutionalize support mechanisms for women's career advancement. (2) Department of Labor and Employment, Series of 1994, designating the then woman Secretary of the Department as additional NCRFW representative and advocate to the Cabinet, ensuring that the NCRFW concerns are articulated and given due consideration in the discussion of policies and other measures during Cabinet meetings. This designation was in addition to the then Secretary of the Department of Social Welfare and Development, another woman member of the Cabinet. (3) Office of the Executive Secretary, Series of 1994, requiring the consideration of women nominees for at least one position to the Board of Commissioners of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR). At present, there is already a woman Commissioner in CHR. (4) Department of Labor and Employment, Series of 1994, requiring NCRFW representation at the eighty-first session of ILO. /...

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