CEDAW/C/SR.32 English Page 12 (Ms. Oeser) 67. The information provided in the annex was difficult to understand. What was actually meant by paragraph 13 on page 11 of the report and what was the current status of the activities relating to the very important issue of women's role in peace negotiations? 68. Despite the questions still outstanding on the basic problems of women in the Philippines, it was clear that the Government was striving to meet its obligations under the Convention. 69. Ms. CARON observed that some by the Philippine Government that country. However, there was much laws. She asked what was keeping immediately. very impressive measures had already been taken would improve the status of women in the existing discrimination and even discriminatory the Government from eliminating those laws 70. With regard to the implementation of articles 2 and 3 of the Convention, she wondered whether Parliamentary Bill No. 613 (p. 10 of the report) was still in force and what its basis was. Should not its provisions extend to widowers as well as widows? 71. She also wished to know whether women had the same legal property rights as men, whether they kept their own names when they married and what name the children assumed, whether women could enter into contracts and manage and dispose of property without the intervention of their husbands, and whether a single person could adopt a child and under what conditions. The meeting rose at 1.10 p.m.