Monash Lens
This week we mark International Women’s Day. The theme this year is ‘Women in Leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world’. Many words in the past few weeks have been dedicated to the question of leadership, the privilege of power, and the active effort to deny or discredit women as leaders and as truth tellers.
Kate Fitz-Gibbon
Silke Meyer
Marie Segrave
Associate Professor of Criminology
For this week, we want to shine a light on the vacuum of accountable leadership in addressing violence against women.
In a week when politicians are required to celebrate women, the place for women in Australia has never been under greater threat. Arguably, never before have women victim-survivors across our country been made to feel so unsupported and disbelieved by those in power.
MANILA, March 9 — As the entire world celebrates Women’s Month this March, the Commission on Population and Development (POPCOM) renews its call for special protection of Filipino women, especially in the time of a raging pandemic. Recently, POPCOM disclosed the results of a recent.
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According to the survey, one out of four or at least 25 percent of Filipino adults in the country have cited acts of violence against women as one of the most pressing problems amid the raging coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.
Based on the results revealed by PopCom on Tuesday, March 9, some 11 percent of the respondents said physical violence was the top concern of Filipino women among these harmful acts, followed by sexual violence and emotional violence at 7 percent each.
In Mindanao, 24 percent of adults shared the same sentiments, with 11 percent citing physical violence; 5 pecent, sexual; and 8 percent, emotional. The concern was slightly lower in the Visayas at 22 percent (6 percent physical violence, 11 percent sexual, 5 percent emotional).