CEDAW/C/SR.32 English Page 9 (Ms. Biryukova) training. She asked whether, as stipulated in article 10 of the Convention, any programmes had been organized for girls and women who had left school prematurely. The report made no mention of legislative measures aimed at preventing discrimination in employment; on the contrary, the report indicated that women would be the first to be dismissed from their jobs, which was a gross violation of article 11 of the Convention. Women worked extremely long hours, for wages lower than those paid to men. She wished to know what machinery, if any, had been established to monitor instances of discrimination in employment. · 48. The Philippines had done little to implement article 13 of the Convention, as the two measures listed in the report applied only to that small minority of Philippine women who were permanently employed. Despite its importance, article 15 of the Convention was not even mentioned in the Philippine report. She asked why the Philippine Government, in drawing up its development plan for 1983-1987 after· having ratified the Convention in 1981, had placed women worket:s in the same category as minors and the disabled. She also pointed out tbat the report made no mention of women's equality when it came to freedom to choose a spouse and other family matters covered by article 16 of the Convention. 49. In conclusion, the format of the report of the Philippines prevented the Committee from obtaining a full picture of the status of women and their rights in that country, without which the Committee could not fully assess the significance of the measures taken to improve that situation. 50. Mr. NORDENFELT inquired whether the introductory statement by the representative of the Philippines could be made available to the Committee for its consideration. He agreed that the format of the report of the Philippines made it somewhat difficult to grasp the information contained in the report. However, the Government of the Philippines had prepared its report before the adoption of guidelines for use by State parties preparing their reports. 51. The report before the Committee showed that the Philippines was undertaking an ambitious programme to eliminate discrimination against women, and it was to be hoped that more detailed information on the results of that programme would be provided in subsequent reports. 52. He commended implementation of similar programme Programme carried praiseworthy. the Ministry of Justice for its Action Programme carried out in article 7 of the Convention and suggested that it might conduct a in the context of article 15 of the Convention. The Action out by the Central Bank to implement article 13 was also 53. Article 11 of the Convention provided for the enactment of special legislation to protect women under certain circumstances; ironically, such legislation might occasionally have an effect opposite to the one intended. For example, articles 130 and 131 of the Labor Code, which prohibited women from working at night, had severely limited women's employment opportunities in the Philippines and were therefore being repealed by Parliamentary Bill No. 353. It was all the more / ...