“Mostly, I have observed that the victims are being more limited but not to the point that they won't elaborate when responding, it is for the reason that the victims do not want any more to elevate and remember their past experiences because it caused them trauma at some point of their lives being a woman, they don't want any more to reminisce the worst scenarios they had encountered specifically the atmosphere, the setup, the moment and the reasons of why they had been abused,” responded Focal Person 5. Focal Person 5 added, “They also had the feeling of heaviness in their hearts as what I have observed because of being able to remember to what did their husband and live-in partners had done harm to them, and most importantly I have observed that the victims are prioritizing and giving importance the sake of their family specially their children because it has caused them some unpleasant experiences and this could affect their lives specially their studies as this is one of my main goals to settle most of the cases I had handled because for me, family is really important and the decisions must be taken wisely by the victims to consider the effect of it to their families.” Focal Person 5 stated, “There are some women who opted not to elevate their cases to court for reason and consideration of the following factors: One is for the preservation of the relationship of husband/wife and family as a whole; and two, is to avoid trauma or depression to children.” CHR 9 as Cushion Providers The CHR 9, per response of the key interviewee, offers programs conducts activities under its Information, Education, Communications Advocacy Program such as Human Rights Education, Training Information campaign; Development and Dissemination of HR materials; and dissemination of HR Policy advisory. and and and IEC “Aside from the traditional way of delivering our advocacy program, interestingly, applying social marketing in our advocacy program has been discussed and tried to as much as possible reach a wider audience. As such this regional office is now publishing a quarterly a newsletter, translated IEC materials into local dialects and engaged the use social media among others,” the respondent said. Asked how the public has responded to its distributed materials, the key interviewee said, “Generally, this regional office is receiving positive feedback from the public based on the advocacy campaign that this office is undertaking on practically all human rights issues. Specifically, with regard to men, on issues regarding violence against women, during the initial engagement with them there were objections on the ground that the 92