WHAT IS GABRIELA?

The General Assembly Binding Women for

Reforms, Integrity, Equality, Leadership, and Action
(GABRIELA). It is a leftist Filipino organization that
advocates women's issues.

HISTORY OF GABRIELA
GABRIELA was founded in April 1984 after 10,000 women marched in Manila, defying
a Marcos decree against demonstrations.Amidst a backdrop of widespread social inequality and unrest,
GABRIELA aimed to synthesize issues of national liberation, poverty and women's emancipation. The
organization's founders pushed for comprehensive social transformation, rather than focusing on individual
forms of oppression. This came to be known as Third World feminism.The NGO was named in honor
of Gabriela Silang, a revolutionary Filipina, who led a revolt against Spain in the second half of the eighteenth
century. The death of her husband was the reason she took over his role as the anti-colonialist
leader.GABRIELA has been a monumental party for
Filipino women because they challenge a lot of the
patriarchal views placed on them, alongside resisting
foreign influence andneocolonialism

OBJECTIVE
 a movement dealing distinctly with the problems
of women as women, working to free women from all
forms of economic and political oppression and
discrimination, sexual violence and abuse, neglect and
denial of their health and reproductive rights

 a movement integral to the national liberation

struggle for sovereignty, a democratic and representative
government and equality between women and men in all
aspects of life

 a vital movement to harness the power of half of

the country's population towards liberation
THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS AGAINST WOMEN
 SEX TRAFFICKING AND PROSTITUTION

 SEX TRAFFICKING:
o recruitment, transportation, harboring or receipt of persons
o with or without the victim’s consent or knowledge
o within or across national boarders
o by means of threat, use of force, or other forms of coercion, abduction, fraud, deception,
abuse of power or position
o for the purpose of sexual exploitation or prostitution

 PROSTITUTION: any act, transaction, scheme or design involving the use of a person by another
for sexual intercourse or lascivious conduct in exchange for money, profit or any other
consideration.

 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
 Domestic violence (domestic abuse of women and children) – on intimate relationships,
violence occurs when:
o An act or a series of acts (physical, sexual, psychological, economic abuse)
committed by any person against a woman who is wife/ former wife, live-in partner,
with sexual or dating relationship, with a common child (legitimate or illegitimate)

 RAPE, INCEST AND SEXUAL ABUSE

 Rape and Incest – a crime committed against a woman or a child under any of the following
circumstances:
o Through force, threat or intimidation
o Offended party is deprived of reason or otherwise unconscious
o By means of fraud or grave abuse of authority
o When the offended party is under 12 years old or demented
o When a person inserts his penis into another person’s mouth or anal orifice or any
instrument or object into the genital or anal orifice of another person

 SEXUAL HARASSMENT: any unwanted, unsolicited and unreasonable attention or sexual gestures
towards a woman that makes her uncomfortable, intimidated, embarrassed, humiliated or offended.
  VIOLENCE A S A RESULT OF POLITICAL REPRESSION: is the persecution of an
individual or group within society for political reasons, particularly for the purpose of
restricting or preventing their ability to take part in the political life of a society thereby
reducing their standing among their fellow citizens. Political repression is sometimes used
synonymously with the term political discrimination (also known as politicism). It often is
manifested through discriminatory policies, such as human rights violations, surveillance
abuse, police brutality, imprisonment,involuntary settlement, stripping of citizen's
rights, lustration and violent action or terror such as the murder, summary
executions, torture, forced disappearance and other extrajudicial punishment of political
activists, dissidents, or general population. [3] Political repression can also be reinforced by
means outside of written policy, such as by public and private media ownership and by self-
censorship within the public.

 SEXUAL DISCRIMINATION AND EXPLOITATION: is an act or acts committed through non-

consensual abuse or exploitation of another person’s sexuality for the purpose of sexual gratification,
financial gain, personal benefit or advantage, or any other non-legitimate purpose. The act or acts of
sexual exploitation are prohibited even though the behavior does not constitute one of the other sexual
misconduct offenses
 LIMITED ACCESS TO REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CARE

Statistics of Violence Against Women

Republic Act 9262
 "THE ANTI-VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN ACT OF 2004“
 It is hereby declared that the State values the dignity of women and children and guarantees full
respect for human rights. The State also recognizes the need to protect the family and its members
particularly women and children, from violence and threats to their personal safety and security.

What is ‘Violence Against Women’?

Violence Against Women is any act of gender-based violence that results or is likely to result in
physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women including threats or such acts.Moercion or
arbitrary deprivation of liberty whether occurring in public orprivate life. Gender-based violence is any
violence inflicted on women because of their sex.

What is Self defense ?

Self-defense (self-defence in some varieties of English) is a countermeasurethat involves defending
the health and well-being of oneself from harm. The use of the right of self-defense as a legal
justification for the use of force in times of danger is available in many jurisdictions.
 GABRIELA:
A NATIONAL
ALLIANCE AGAINST
WOMEN

Judy Ann A. Principe

Jushua Malabuyo

Jean Rances A. Ranido

Leandro Jose Tapispisan

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