WHO ARE THE PERSONS PROTECTED WHERE TO SEEK HELP?

RA 9262
BY R.A. 9262? • Barangay VAW Desk in your Barangay Hall
The following are the persons who are • Provincial/City/Municipal Social Welfare and
protected by R.A. 9262: Development Office of Local Government Units
• Department of Social Welfare and
1. Wife
2. Former Wife Development (DSWD) THE ANTI-
3. A woman with whom the offender has or had • Community-Based Services Section (CBSS)
sexual relations with • Philippine National Police (PNP) Women and
Children Protection Center
VIOLENCE
4. A woman with whom the offender has a
common child with
5. The legitimate or illegitimate child of the
• Women and Children Protection Desk of
nearest Precinct AGAINST
• National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) Anti-
woman within or without the family abode.
Violence Against Women and Children Division WOMEN AND
WHAT IS A PROTECTION ORDER? (VAWCD)
A protection order is an order issued under this
act for the purpose of preventing further acts
THEIR
of violence against women or her child. And
granting other relief as may be needed. The CHILDREN ACT
relief granted under a protection order serve
the purpose of safeguarding the victim from OF 2004
further harm, minimizing any disruption in the
victim’s daily life, and facilitating the
opportunity and ability of the victim to
independently regain control of her life. The
provisions of the protection order shall be
enforced by law enforcement agencies.

The various kinds of protection orders are:

1. Barangay Protection Orders (BPO)
2.Temporary Protection Orders (TPO)
3. Permanent Protection Order (PPO)
REFERENCE:
(FAQs RA 9262: The Anti-Violence Against
Women and Their Children Act of 2004 - JOHN VINCENT REY PEDRO
Philippine Commission on Women, 2023) BSCRIM 1F
 WHAT IS VIOLENCE AGAINST
WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN
UNDER RA9262?
It refers to any act or a series
of acts committed by an intimate
partner (husband, ex-husband,
live-in partner,
boyfriend/girlfriend, fiance, who
the woman had sexual/dating
relationship.
• against a woman who is his wife, former wife;
• against a woman with whom the person has or
had a sexual or dating relationship,
• against a women with whom he has a common
child;
• against her child whether legitimate or
illegitimate within or without the family abode,
Of which results in or is likely to result in
physical, sexual, psychological harm or suffering or
economic abuse including threats of such acts,
battery, assault, coercion, harassment or arbitrary
deprivation of liberty.
WHAT ARE THE ACTS OF VIOLENCE
WHICH ARE COVERED UNDER R.A.
9262?
1. Physical Violence – acts that include bodily or
physical harm (battery).
•causing/threatening/attempting to cause
physical harm to the woman or her child;
• placing the woman or her child in fear of
imminent physical harm
2. Sexual Violence – the acts which are sexual in
nature committed against a woman or her child. It
includes, but is not limited to:
• Rape, sexual harassment, acts of lasciviousness,
treating a woman or her child as a sex object,
making demeaning and sexually suggestive remarks,
physically attacking the sexual parts of the victim’s
body, forcing him or her to watch obscene
publications and indecent shows or forcing the
woman or her child to do indecent acts and/or
make films thereof, forcing the wife and
mistress/lover to live in the conjugal home or sleep
together in the same room with the abuser.
• Causing or attempting to make the
woman or her child to perform sexual
acts (that do not constitute Rape) by use
of force, threats, intimidation directed
against the woman, her child, or her
immediate family.
• Prostituting the woman or her child.
3. Economic Abuse – Acts that make or attempt to
make a woman financially dependent upon her
abuser, which includes, but is not limited to the
following:
• Preventing the woman from engaging in any
legitimate profession, occupation, business or activity
except in cases wherein the other spouse/partner
objects on valid, serious and moral grounds as
defined in Article 73 of the Family Code;
• Controlling the woman’s own money or property; or
solely controlling the conjugal or common
money/properties;
• Destroying household property;
DEFINE CHILDREN AS USED UNDER
R.A. 9262.
“Children” refers to those below eighteen (18)
years of age or older but are incapable of taking
care of themselves as defined under Republic Act
No. 7610. As used in this Act, it includes the
biological children of the victim and other
children under her care.
DEFINE “BATTERED WOMAN SYNDROME” AS
USED UNDER R.A. 9262
It refers to a scientifically defined
pattern of psychological and
behavioral symptoms found in
battered women as a result of a long
history of abuse.
DEFINE SEXUAL RELATIONS AS USED UNDER
R.A. 9262.
It refers to a single sexual act which may or may
not result in the bearing of a common child.
DEFINE DATING RELATIONSHIP AS USED
UNDER R.A. 9262
It is a situation wherein the parties live as
husband and wife without the benefit of
marriage or are romantically involved over time
and on a continuing basis during the course of
the relationship. A casual acquaintance or
ordinary socialization between two individuals in
a business or social context is not a dating
relationship.