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(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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