The United Nations aims to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. There are actually eight of them and these are 1) eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, 2) achieve universal primary education, 3) promote gender equality and empowering women, 4) reduce child mortality rate, 5) improve maternal health 6) combat HIV/aids and other diseases, 7) ensure environmental sustainability and 8) develop global partnership among countries and trading system. All of these are actually based on the happenings all around the world because we want to have and give justice to every little thing that is going on around us. It is a dream to achieve the MDGs for all we know that it is not an easy list to do so.
The third MDG which is to promote gender equality and empowering women seeks to have no biases by creating wholeness of such person and of human. It points out to shut down the gender biases and start to uplift the individuality of a person as man and woman. Man can be woman and woman can be man in terms of work and treatment because people actually tend to have that superiority when it comes to men and that is not fair. Talking about fairness should apply in this situation because we are all created equally.
Specifically here in Cagayan de Oro city, there are organizations that promote gender
equality and empowering women. This is the Technology Outreach and Community Help (TOUCH) Foundation, Inc. It implements a Project on “Strengthening Support System for Victims of Gender Violence in Cagayan de Oro City.” To have a clear understanding of the TOUCH Foundation’s main role, it aims to respond the needs of women survivors of Violence Against Women and Children (VAWC) in Cagayan de Oro City because in this case people are aware that gender equality problem is actually arising and to prevent that, the TOUCH Foundation in partnership with the different sectors, line agencies, academe, organizations concerning the subject matter, NGOs, other service providers, and lastly the Eighteen barangay local government units (BLGUs).
The Philippine government supports and recognizes the need to increase efforts in instituting measures to protect women and their children.
One of the Republic Acts is the Republic Act 9262. This Act is about Anti-Violence against women and their children. The Anti-VAWC Act (R.A. 9262) was passed on February 2004 by the Congress and was signed into law on March 8, 2004 by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. The law seeks to address the widespread acts of violence directed against women and children, which acts clearly violate their fundamental human rights and several international human rights instruments of which our country is a participant.
R.A 9262 can be committed inside or outside the family residence. These are acts committed by the any person against a woman who may be the wife, former wife, live-in, girlfriend, or with whom the abuser has or had a sexual or dating relationship, or with whom the abuser has a common child—the woman’s child may be legitimate or illegitimate. VAWC is not limited only to physical violence, sexual violence which includes rape, sexual harassment, acts of lasciviousness, etc. psychological violence, and economic abuse.
The prohibited acts have corresponding penalties as to help the victim have their justice. It is just fair to have this kind of law in order to feel that women and children belong to the world where most people called it the superiority world because of the biases among men and women.
Women have rights so as the men. All of us should be treated equally in order to have peace in each one of us. It is just so simple to achieve this but people are complicating it. The problem will always be a problem if each one of us is not capable of what needs to be done. Awareness is not enough if it is not put into action. It will just defeat its purpose. Women should be treated with respect and dignity.
Moreover, the reason why there are cases like this is due to the absence of education. People become less sensitive of their actions because they believe that nothing is wrong with it. The guidance when it comes to moral values has been scarce.
A helpful way to attack this problem is to organize a seminar for men for them to have a
better vision of what needs to be done and what is not need to be done. Little by little, it would lead to a successful outcome afterwards—may be consciously or unconsciously.
All of us need respect. What do we do? Give it without any doubt and judgment because I believe that the only way to accomplish this goal is through the certainty of acceptance that all of us living in this world are the same. So, we should treat one another equally. Boy, girl, lady, lad, man and woman.
Lastly, it would be definite if patience will be included because without patience all of us will be going over the same problem as to where it started. It is just one step at a time.
The third MDG which is to promote gender equality and empowering women seeks to have no biases by creating wholeness of such person and of human. It points out to shut down the gender biases and start to uplift the individuality of a person as man and woman. Man can be woman and woman can be man in terms of work and treatment because people actually tend to have that superiority when it comes to men and that is not fair. Talking about fairness should apply in this situation because we are all created equally.
Specifically here in Cagayan de Oro city, there are organizations that promote gender
equality and empowering women. This is the Technology Outreach and Community Help (TOUCH) Foundation, Inc. It implements a Project on “Strengthening Support System for Victims of Gender Violence in Cagayan de Oro City.” To have a clear understanding of the TOUCH Foundation’s main role, it aims to respond the needs of women survivors of Violence Against Women and Children (VAWC) in Cagayan de Oro City because in this case people are aware that gender equality problem is actually arising and to prevent that, the TOUCH Foundation in partnership with the different sectors, line agencies, academe, organizations concerning the subject matter, NGOs, other service providers, and lastly the Eighteen barangay local government units (BLGUs).
The Philippine government supports and recognizes the need to increase efforts in instituting measures to protect women and their children.
One of the Republic Acts is the Republic Act 9262. This Act is about Anti-Violence against women and their children. The Anti-VAWC Act (R.A. 9262) was passed on February 2004 by the Congress and was signed into law on March 8, 2004 by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. The law seeks to address the widespread acts of violence directed against women and children, which acts clearly violate their fundamental human rights and several international human rights instruments of which our country is a participant.
R.A 9262 can be committed inside or outside the family residence. These are acts committed by the any person against a woman who may be the wife, former wife, live-in, girlfriend, or with whom the abuser has or had a sexual or dating relationship, or with whom the abuser has a common child—the woman’s child may be legitimate or illegitimate. VAWC is not limited only to physical violence, sexual violence which includes rape, sexual harassment, acts of lasciviousness, etc. psychological violence, and economic abuse.
The prohibited acts have corresponding penalties as to help the victim have their justice. It is just fair to have this kind of law in order to feel that women and children belong to the world where most people called it the superiority world because of the biases among men and women.
Women have rights so as the men. All of us should be treated equally in order to have peace in each one of us. It is just so simple to achieve this but people are complicating it. The problem will always be a problem if each one of us is not capable of what needs to be done. Awareness is not enough if it is not put into action. It will just defeat its purpose. Women should be treated with respect and dignity.
Moreover, the reason why there are cases like this is due to the absence of education. People become less sensitive of their actions because they believe that nothing is wrong with it. The guidance when it comes to moral values has been scarce.
A helpful way to attack this problem is to organize a seminar for men for them to have a
better vision of what needs to be done and what is not need to be done. Little by little, it would lead to a successful outcome afterwards—may be consciously or unconsciously.
All of us need respect. What do we do? Give it without any doubt and judgment because I believe that the only way to accomplish this goal is through the certainty of acceptance that all of us living in this world are the same. So, we should treat one another equally. Boy, girl, lady, lad, man and woman.
Lastly, it would be definite if patience will be included because without patience all of us will be going over the same problem as to where it started. It is just one step at a time.
