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LAWS ONWOMEN
Mifana, Divine Grace
Pua, Rochel April
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Republic Act No. 9262
Anti-Violence Against Women and their
Children Act
of 2004
Republic Act No. 7877
Sexual Harassment Law
Republic Act No. 9208
Anti-Trafficking In Persons Act of 2003
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Republic Act No. 9262 Anti-Violence Against Women and their Children Act of
2004
“Violence against women and the their children”
any act or series of acts by any person against
his:
• wife, former wife, or with whom the person
has/had sexual or dating relationship, or with
whom he has a common child, or
• against her child whether legitimate orillegitimate, within or without the family abode
which result in or is likely to result in physical,
sexual, psychological harm or suffering, or economic
abuse
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Terms and Definitions
Battery
Stalking
Dating Relationship
Sexual Relations
Children
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Specific Acts of Violence
Penalized under the Law
1. Sexual violence • Rape
• sexual harassment
• acts of lasciviousness
• treating a woman or her child as sex object
• making demeaning and sexually suggestive remarks
• physically attacking the sexual parts of the victim’s body
• forcing her/him to watch obscene publications and indecentshows or
• forcing the woman or her child to do indecent acts and/ormake films
• forcing the wife and mistress/lover to live in the conjugal homeor
• sleep together in the same room with the abuser;
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Specific Acts of Violence
Penalized under the Law
Sexual violence
Acts causing or attempting to cause the victim to
engage in any sexual activity by force, threat offorce, physical or other harm or threat of physical
or other harm or coercion;
Prostituting the woman or her child.
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Specific Acts of Violence
Penalized under the Law
2. Psychological violence
acts or omissions causing or likely to causemental or emotional suffering of the victim such
as intimidation, harassment, stalking, damage to
property, public ridicule or humiliation, repeated
verbal abuse and marital infidelity.
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Specific Acts of Violence
Penalized under the Law 3. Economic abuse
That make or attempt to make a woman financially dependent
Withdrawal of financial support or preventing victim fromengaging in any legitimate profession, occupation,
business or activity, except in cases wherein the otherspouse/partner objects on valid, serious and moral groundsas defined in Article 73 of the Family Code;
Deprivation or threat of deprivation of financial sources andthe right to the use and enjoyment of the conjugal,community or property owned in common;
Destroying household property;
Controlling the victim’s own money or properties or solelycontrolling the conjugal money or properties.
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Specific Acts of Violence
Penalized under the Law
4. Battering, assault, coercion, harassment orarbitrary
deprivation of liberty.
Acts committed:
Causing physical harm to the woman or her child;
Threatening to cause the woman or her child physical
harm;
Attempting to cause the woman or her child physical
harm;
Placing the woman or her child in fear of imminent
physical harm;
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Specific Acts of Violence
Penalized under the Law
Attempting to compel or compelling the woman
or her child to engage in conduct which they
have the right to desist from or to desist from
conduct which they have the right to engage in,or attempting to restrict or restricting their
freedom of movement or conduct by force, threat
of force, physical or other harm, threat thereof,
intimidation directed against the woman or child.
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Specific Acts of Violence
Penalized under the Law
Inflicting of threatening to inflict physical harm on
oneself for the purpose of controlling her actions
or decisions;
Causing or attempting to cause woman or herchild to engage in any sexual activity not
constituting rape, by force or threat of force,
physical harm, or through intimidation directed
against the woman or her child or her/hisimmediate family;
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Specific Acts of Violence
Penalized under the Law
Engaging in purposeful, knowing or reckless
conduct, personally or through another that
alarms or causes substantial emotional orpsychological distress.
Causing mental or emotional anguish, public
ridicule, and humiliation to the woman or her
child
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Protective Policies under the Law
A petition for protection order may be filed by any of
the following:
the offended party;
parents or guardians of the offended party;
ascendants, descendants, collateral relatives
within the 4th civil degree of consanguinity or
affinity;
officers or social workers of the DSWD or of
Local Government units;
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Police officers, preferably those in charge of
women and children’s desks;
Punong Barangay or Barangay Kagawad;
Lawyer, counselor, therapist or healthcare
provider of petitioner;
At least two concerned responsible citizens of
city/municipality where the offense is committedand who has personal knowledge of the offense
committed.
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Battered Woman
is one who is repeatedly subjected to any forceful
physical or psychological behavior by a man inorder to coerce her to do something he wants her
to do without concern for her rights.
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Battered women
exhibit common personality traits:
• low self-esteem
• traditional beliefs about the home, the family andthe female sex role;
• emotional dependence upon the dominant male;
• the tendency to accept responsibility for thebatterer’s actions; and
• false hopes that the relationship will improve.