Lecture Flow The central topic is Women, Peace and Security, and the CHR’s role in monitoring these issues. [We will also discuss] ano yung tinatawag nating international standards, national basis, and sharing we have on the field. I have been doing research on women in armed conflict since 2011, some of the pictures I have come from my own fieldwork. These are the things that CHR should be connected, the view that things should not be fragmented. It’s interesting that a lot of institutions, because of assistance from international institutions, there is a tendency to fragment. I have been following CHR’s work on RH. If RH, UNFPA. If GBV, GOJUST. But the whole point is to mainstream it. If you have to do this as a strategy, you have to make sure that it cuts across everything - policies, processes, etc. If there is a specific area that [cuts across] various kinds of situations. Tignan natin mamaya kung ang role ng CHR is nagkakaroon ng kabuluhan, or if this is being implemented in so far as CHR is being concerned. Context Where did the idea of Women, Peace, and Security come from? Rape of Nanking, 1937. Rape as a method of war. What does that mean? Talagang ginagamit mo ang panggagahasa, ang sexual violence, bilang instrumento para matalo ang kalaban. This was during the Japanese-Chinese war. Natatalo nya ang Chinese and the Japanese soldiers marched in Nanking. What they launched was massacre, indiscriminate rape. They said in this instance that rape is not a sexual offense. There were a lot of documentation hat the Rape of Nanking that the Page 12​ of 62