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Addressing Gender Bias
Addressing Gender Bias
The Anti-Violence Against Women and Their Children Act of 2004 aims to
protect the dignity of women and children and a respect for human rights. The
law has a basic principle states to address violence committed work against
women and children in keeping with the fundamental freedoms guaranteed under
the constitution and other international human rights instrument which is under
the Philippines. Physical and sexual abuse, psychological violence and economic
abuse, stalking, economic abuse including threats of such acts, battery, assault,
coercion, harassment or arbitrary deprivation of liberty and other threat that
women and children experiences are all covered by the law. Every day on
average, nearly 20 women per minute experiences abuse and 1 in 15 children
are experiencing violence, based on the national statistics. This law helped so
much people especially women and children as it prohibits the respondent from
harassing, annoying, telephoning, contacting or otherwise communicating with
the petitioner, directly or indirectly to specifically protect them from harm and
threats to their personal safety and security.