Don't blame the women, blame the abuser
April
3, 2012
6 p.m., Mendiola Bridge
“Mary
Magdalene Contemplating the Crown of Thorns” by Michelangelo
This Lent, the Filipino women are being doubly persecuted with
the impending passage of an anti-women bill. Women are poor, too. Why
leave them out as criminals in this amendatory bill?
For nine years,
women’s groups, survivors and advocates have been pushing for an
anti-prostitution bill that will shift the accountability away from the bought
and onto the buyers as well as the profiteering business. Thus, for
legislators to pass a bill simply amending the Vagrancy Act, keeping women in
prostitution criminalized, while all other actors are decriminalized, is sheer
callousness and misogyny. It is nothing but early and crass
electioneering in the guise of being pro-poor.
PAALALA: Magsuot po ng kulay puti at magdala ng kandila
upang ilawan ang labing-apat na istasyon ng krus ng mga kababaihan sa
prostitusyon. Mga kontak: Clydie Pasia (4342149), Jean Enriquez (0917
8235326).
Alliance of
Progressive Labor • Ateneo Human Rights Centre • Bagong Kamalayan • Buklod •
CATW-AP • Center for Overseas Workers • Development Action for Women Network •
Development Through Active Women Networking • EnGendeRights • Focus on the
Global South • Ging Cristobal • IMA Foundation • Lawig Bubai • LUNA Legal Resource
Center for Women and Children • Pagtinabangay Foundation • PKKK • PREDA • La
Proteccion de la Infancia, Inc. • Rainbow Rights Project (R-Rights), Inc. •
Renew Foundation • SARILAYA • SAMARITANA • Sidlakan • Talikala • Tisaka •
Transform Asia • WomanHealth Phils. • Women’s Legal and Human Rights Bureau •
Women’s Crisis Center • Women’s Media Circle Foundation • Youth and Students
Advancing Gender Equality • World March of Women
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