CEDAW/C/PHI/4 English Page 29 (f) Senate Bill No. 169, which explicitly prohibits advertising materials that "degrade our (Filipino) people, particularly women"; (g) Senate Bill No. 585 (Anti-White Slave Trade) amends article 341 of the Revised Penal Code to provide deterrents to the promotion of prostitution. Programme/project developments 61. Most of the programmes directed at prostituted persons in the last few years have been in the areas of "rehabilitation" or renewal; health, principally in the control of AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases; and education and advocacy. Although the efforts of government organizations and non-governmental organizations are commendable and represent real gains, they are able to serve only a small minority of prostituted persons. 62. As mentioned in the third periodic report, a Project Group on Prostitution was formed as part of the NCRFW-GTZ project which culminated in 1993. In connection with this, a dialogue between the Project Group and the technical staff of the Lower and Upper Houses was held to level off a common understanding of the concepts of prostitution and decriminalization and to look into the implications of this new understanding. There was a consensus in viewing prostitution as a violation of human rights since it destroys one's personhood; as a system rooted in the patriarchal culture and promoted by a highly organized sex industry; as victimization of persons whose sexual services are sold to bring profits to the flesh trade. 63. The Project Group, confronted by the magnitude and complexity of the problem in a Philippine setting, realized the need to have a comprehensive plan to tackle the three "B's" of prostitution: the bought, the buyer and the business. For the bought, mainly women and children, the proposal was to decriminalize the prostituted and to provide restitution through an alternative lifestyle and livelihood programme. This implies a need for a bill to decriminalize prostitution. It was recommended that this new legislation should contain a redefinition of prostitution that shifts the penalty to the perpetrators. With the abolition of prostitution as an end goal of decriminalization, the group concluded that there was a need: (a) To repeal article 202 of the Revised Penal Code which penalizes vagrants and prostitutes; (b) Strengthen article 341 of the Revised Penal Code (White Slave Trade) with an insertion of a new definition of prostitution; (c) Enact social laws to provide for a renewal programme for an alternative lifestyle and livelihood programme for those who opt out of prostitution. 64. The Women Governmental and Non-governmental Organization Network on Violence Against Women and Prostitution, which was established in 1993, holds forums and workshops mainly on policy issues. Together with the Project Group on Prostitution, the Network held a policy workshop on prostitution, a public hearing on the sexual exploitation of women as a violation of human rights, and /...