15. The Commission notes that women with disability have difficult accessing protection services. State Party assertions notwithstanding, 26 the Commission is concerned at the lack data on PWDs, as well as sign language interpreters in courts, police women’s desks, health centers and hospitals. The call by the PDRC and other NGOs focusing on disability on the National Disability Council for the institutionalization of sign language interpreters have not been supported, leaving deaf victims of violence and deaf in need of health services lacking in access. 16. Other barriers to access to justice brought to the attention of the Commission include : insensitivity of service providers, lack of adequate support system, including financ ia l support in pursuing complaints and cases in court, inaccessibility of shelters and psychosocial interventions, and failure to issue or implement protective measures provided by the law. 17. The Committee may wish to urge the State Party to elaborate on its efforts of ensuring access to justice, particularly to protective services and adequate support systems, to women living in geographically inaccessible and isolated areas, including indigenous and Moro women, as well as efforts to make these available to women with diverse SOGIE. 18. The Committee may also wish to recommend that the State Party report on efforts to collect data on women and girls with disabilities, including violence against women with disabilities. Finally, the Committee may wish to recommend that the Party report on efforts to address employment discrimination against PWDs and the call of PWDs to institutionalize sign language interpreters in all government facilities. On measures to increase awareness, and data collection on various forms, of violence against women (para. 16.) and information on VAW 19. The Commission notes that there are different definitions of the acts that constitute “violence against women” under the Anti-Violence against Women and their Children Act of 200427 and the Magna Carta of Women,28 the latter definition being more consistent with DEVAW. 20. While the Commission appreciates the State Party report on the prevalence of violence against women, a data gap continue exists in relation to violence experienced by persons with disabilities, and indigenous and Moro women. Neither is there data on the prevalence of violence experienced by women in the context of displacement, development aggression and armed conflict, and on the precise measures taken by the State Party to address these forms of violence against women. 21. Consultations conducted by the Commission highlight how poverty and displacement due to natural disasters, development aggression, and armed conflict has made women and girls more vulnerable to sexual violence, trafficking, prostitution, and at risk of acquiring 26 27 28 See CEDAW/C/PHL/Q/7-8, para. 18.4. AVAWC, Republic Act No. 9262 (March 8, 2004), sec. 3. MCW, Republic Act. No. 9710 (August 14, 2009), sec. 4(k). Page 5 of 11