social and economic services such as health care, education, water and sanitation, employment and livelihood opportunities, housing, social security, physical infrastructure, and the justice system.” Small farmers, rural workers and fisherfolks were explicitly included among the marginalized groups. Section 8 of this law states that “all rights in the Constitution and those rights recognized under international instruments duly signed and ratified by the Philippines, in consonance with Philippine law, shall be rights of woman under this Act to be enjoyed without discrimination.” Some of these rights include: ​Protection from violence, Right to health, Right to food, food security and resources for food production, Gender equality in titling of land, including land in relation to agrarian reform, Equal rights to women to the enjoyment, use, and management of land, water, and other natural resources within their communities or ancestral domains, Equal access to the use and management of fisheries and aquatic resources, and all the rights and benefits accruing to stakeholders in the fishing industry, Right to Housing, Right to Decent Work, Right to Livelihood, Credit, Capital, and Technology, Right to Education and Training, Social Protection, Recognition and Preservation of Cultural Identity and Integrity, and Peace and Development. CARPER (Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program Extension with Reforms) - RA 9700 CARPER is “​an act strengthening the comprehensive agrarian reform program (CARP), extending the acquisition and distribution of all agricultural lands, instituting necessary reforms, amending for the purpose certain provisions of republic act no. 6657, otherwise, known as the comprehensive agrarian reform law of 1988.​ ” Section 1 recognizes that rural women have equal rights as to men in owning and controlling land. They therefore should not be discriminated against being beneficiaries of the agrarian reform program. The law further states that “​in no case should the agrarian reform beneficiaries' sex, economic, religious, social, cultural and political attributes adversely affect the distribution of lands.​ " (Sec. 5) Section 37-A also provides that support services shall be extended equally to women and men agrarian reform beneficiaries and that these services integrate the specific needs and well-being of women farmers. Policies and programs will be monitored to ensure the fundamental equality of women and men in the agrarian reform program as well as respect for the human rights, social protection, and decent working conditions of both paid and unpaid men and women farmer-beneficiaries. (Sec. 14) CARPER also encourages rural women’s participation in community activities and recognizes their right to self-organization. It also provides for their representation in the Presidential Agrarian Reform Council (PARC) by including in its composition a member of a duly recognized national organization of rural women or a national organization of agrarian reform beneficiaries with a substantial number of women members. The Philippine Fisheries Code – RA 8550, as amended by RA 10654 RA 10654 is the act to prevent, deter and eliminate illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. It lapsed into a law in February 2015. This law enforces a system for Monitoring, Control and Surveillance (MCS) of fishing in all Philippine waters. Section 14 states that “​a monitoring, control and surveillance system shall be established by the Department in coordination with LGUs, FARMCs, the private sector and other agencies concerned to ensure that the fisheries and aquatic resources in Philippine waters are 10