Violence Against Women and their Children Act (R.A.

9262):
Its Impact on the Lives of Women in the Cordillera

An Undergraduate Research Proposal in Sociology 11

presented to Saint Louis University

In Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements of the Degree
Bachelor of Arts in Political Science

by

Camilla Patricia M. Woolf

August 2020
 ABSTRACT

Using mixed methodology, the research aims to determine the impact of

RA 9262 on the lives of Women from the Cordillera. socially, economically,
politically, culturally and psychologically.

*i don’t think may political/psychological component un study natin….mas focused sya

sa VAW
* add locale: Kalinga, Abra and Apayao only
RA 9262, other wise known as…..

YOU HAVE TO WRITE AN INTRODUCTION SHOULD BE NUMBER I.

I. DEFINITION OF TERMS - SHOULD NOT BE NUMBER I.

VAW (Violence Against Women) – any act of gender- based violence that results in, or
is likely to result in, physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women and
girls of any age, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of
liberty, whether occurring in public or private life. SOURCE PO.

(Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women) - was adopted by the

United Nations to combat the major obstacle that violence against women poses "to the
achievement of equality, development and peace." LACKS DESCRIPTION/DEFINITION
ANS SOURCE

II. RESEARCH QUESTIONS:

1. What is the impact of VAW politically, socially, economically, and

psychologically?

2. Is VAW a matter of a criminal behavior or gender-based manifestation of

patriarchal domination? BASED ON RA 9262 IT SHOULD BE CRIMINAL IN
NATURE/ delete the question

3. Is VAW more prevalent if it is “socially acceptable”? CAN BE TRANSFORMED

AS : what is the prevalence rate of vaw in the province of abra, kalinga and
apayao?

4. How has VAW changed over the years in the CAR in terms of ?

5. What are the government’s laws and protections for the victims of VAW and how
are they helping them with their experience? Delete this question
 You will only have 3 questions na lng, whicj is ok naman

III. INTRODUCTION

According to the United Nations, Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against

Women (DEVAW), "violence against women is a manifestation of historically unequal
power relations between men and women". This study aims to determine if the
prevalence of various forms of violence against women will follow if it is socially
acceptable and it seeks to study the impact of violence on the lives of the victims from
the Cordillera socially, economically, politically, culturally and psychologically.
Kindly restate

Studies show that when the society regard the different forms of violence against
women as socially acceptable, their tendency occurs to be high.( source) Violence
against women in various forms occurs when:
(1) men perceived women as their property (Saroca, 2012);
(2) (2) the society is patriarchal (Rodriguez, 2012);
(3) (3) violence against women is culturally accepted (Papp, 2010; Abramsky, et
al., 2011; Yount et al., 2011; Al-Badayneh, 2012; García-Moreno et al., 2005; and
Deyessa, et al., 2010);
(4) there is gender inequality (Gomez et al., 2011);
(5) there is a history of violence in pregnancy and alcohol abuse by a partner,
risky sexual behaviors, low socioeconomic status and young age (Shamu, et al., 2011;
Abramsky, et al., 2011; Devries, et al., 2010; and Taillieu and Brownridge, 2010);
(6) cohabitation, experience of childhood abuse, growing up with domestic
violence, and experiencing or perpetrating other forms of violence in adulthood
(Abramsky, et al., 2011).

There is however limited evidence which proves that in a rural setting of the country,
violence is socially accepted and that the prevalence of various forms of VAW follows
when it is socially acceptable.

Studying “Third World Women” enables people to develop a critical stance towards
their own situation. Whereas we set out by believing that the various forms of machismo
and patriarchy which we encountered in Asia were characteristics of underdevelopment,
we soon came to realize that our own situation was not entirely different and it was
while undertaking a more detailed study of the historical roots of male dominance that
we made our most important discovery, namely that far from being signs of
backwardness, sexism and patriarchy are central ideological and institutional props of
the industrial system and its model of accumulation.REPHRASE TO BE MORE
UNDERSTANDABLE, you may cut it to shortr sentences (Mies, 1988) . The
contributions which make up this Thesis seek to examine the relations and linkages and
how it affects women of Cordillera directly and indirectly as to their role in the
community.
This is not our topic

In 2013, the World Health Organization, London School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine and South African Medical Research Council (2013, 20) reported that the
South-East Asia and Western Pacific regions (World Health Organization-designated
regions, both of which include ASEAN member states) had ‘very high prevalence rates
of physical and/or intimate partner violence’ ( source po)This vulnerability is further
aggravated through a lack of access to different social, political, and economic
resources by both men and women, with women remaining the central targets of
violence while men act as both victims and perpetrators. Source

Outside the ASEAN region, historic strides have been made in recognizing that
pervasive and acute threats to women’s peace and security are a cause of societal
conflict and a barrier to sustainable peace. In 2000, the UN Security Council (UNSC)
passed Resolution 1325, the first in its history on WPS (UNSC 2000). UNSC Resolution
1325 referred to the obligation of states, regional organizations and international
organizations—namely, the UN—to create conditions that addressed women’s right to
peace and security. The Resolution noted evidence that the maintenance of
international peace and security will only be achieved by direct efforts to improve and
maintain women’s security, as well as the engagement and inclusion of women in peace
and security efforts— conflict prevention, conflict resolution, peace-building, and
security sector reform.
This about something else, but not about vaw or deomestic violence

It was not until the second half of the 1970s that a conceptual understanding
developed that VAW/GBV was not merely a matter of individual criminal behavior but
rather a gender-based manifestation of patriarchal domination, which has been
protected variously by cultural norms and by legal rights to privacy in the family. Despite
this conceptual recognition of VAW/GBV as a form of discrimination against women and
of patriarchal domination, CEDAW did not expressly incorporate a prohibition of
VAW/GBV you did not define gbv, Gender; Based Violence , also reword your data to
be related to our topic, cite as well your source

VAW/GBV on the street and public transport severely curtails women’s freedom
of movement, freedom of occupation and equal opportunity to participate in public,
political, economic, social and cultural life. “The street” in this context is inclusive of
service places and shopping areas, which women need to access in their daily lives.
This kind of violence produces a fear factor which reaches beyond the victims and
results in women refraining from economic, social and cultural activities in which they
could otherwise take part. Furthermore, VAW/GBV on the street or public transport
directly affects access to the workplace and educational institutions.
It also discusses violence through a range of global issues, including globalization; rape
and war crimes; domestic violence; feminization of poverty; exploitation of transnational
female workers; it has also led to increased violence against them which elucidates how
economic empowerment is a “double edged sword” and cannot be considered a
panacea. On the one hand, the increased female literacy rate and the higher number of
females in the workforce have made women capable of earning, but on the other hand,
it has disturbed the traditional gender role of men as breadwinners, leading some men
to perpetrate violence against women at domestic and social levels. The need to
preserve traditional gender roles has led to the normalization of violent acts against
women, such as rape, acid attacks, and domestic violence.
Not about our topic

The result of hunger and poverty, militarization, violence, migration, oppression, and
displacement and among many other issues have profoundly affected women’s well
being. But on the other hand, these situations have also pushed women to join other
sectors to defend their rights and continue their struggle for self‐determination which
from the history of indigenous women’s activism in the Cordillera shows decades of
militant work with nongovernment organizations, support groups, and advocates.
Not about our topic

The Philippines has ratified and adopted several international instruments that
pertain to the rights of women. Exxample of these would be the United Nations (UN)
Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (UN n.d.),
the Vienna Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women (1993) and the
Beijing Platform for Action (1995) (NCRFW 2008c, 39).
With respect to domestic legislation, Republic Act (RA) 9262 (referred to as the
Anti-violence Against Women and their Children Act) was introduced in 2004
(Philippines 8 Mar. 2004; UN 26 Nov. 2008; Guanzon 22 Aug. 2008, 12). The Act
criminalizes physical, sexual and psychological violence against women and children,
as well as economic abuse (ibid. 13; Philippines 8 Mar. 2004, Sec. 3). It also
criminalizes violence against any woman with whom a man has an intimate relationship,
not only a wife (ibid.). The law is gender-specific and applies only to women and their
children (Guanzon 22 Aug. 2008, 13).
VAW has been getting a national attention and yet, there are insufficient
researches as to the victims’ experience, most especially in the Cordillera, hence this
study was conducted. It aims to study and determine the impact of RA 9262 on the
lives of Women from the Cordillera socially, economically, politically, culturally and
psychologically.
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Frances Raday and Shai Oksenberg (2019), The Impact Of Violence Against Women
On Women’s Economic And Social Life

Ambika Kohli (2015), The Political Economy of Violence Against Women by True,
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Maria Mies, Veronika Bennholdt- Thomsen and Claudia von Werlhof (1988), Women:
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Jurilex A. Maglinte, Marc Eric S. Reyes & Hadji A. Balajadia (2016), ‘‘I Choked Her But I
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Philippine Statistics Office

Introduction….. should include the fact that half of the provinces in car were already
studied and that this research will be a contituation of that research

Main problem: impact of vawc to the lives of women in abra, apayao and kalings. Sub
problems: rate of vaw c, rate of domestic abuse, forms of abuse reported , settlement
patterns on domestic affairs, cultural practices in conflict resolution among intimate
partners…. etc. Hinde o naman yata kasi binasa un research na binigay ko sayo

You have to have a portion for the research design

Include also review of related literature