Filipino activists protest for women's labour rights on Women's Day

Record ID: 1714297

  • Title: Filipino activists protest for women's labour rights on Women's Day
  • Date: 8th March 2023
  • Summary: MANILA, PHILIPPINES (MARCH 8, 2023) (REUTERS) ACTIVISTS CHANTING WHILE MARCHING WITH PLACARDS AND BANNERS VARIOUS OF POLICE BLOCKING ACTIVISTS FROM ADVANCING PROTEST IN PROGRESS ACTIVIST HOLDING PLACARD READING (English): “DEFEND PEASANT WOMEN” (SOUNDBITE) (English) GABRIELA WOMENS RIGHTS PARTY SECRETARY GENERAL, CLARICE PALCE, SAYING: "We are here to call out the Phil
  • Embargoed: 22nd March 2023 10:38
  • Keywords: Women's Day activists rights
  • Location: MANILA, PHILIPPINES
  • City: MANILA, PHILIPPINES
  • Country: Philippines
  • Topics: Asia / Pacific,Race Relations / Ethnic Issues,Society/Social Issues
  • Reuters ID: LVA001564608032023RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: About 300 activists marked Women’s Day with a protest near the presidential palace in Manila to urge the government to improve the labour situation of female workers.
    Anti-riot police briefly blocked the activists from holding their protest in front of the palace, but were later allowed a few hundred metres from the gate leading to the compound.
    Clarice Palce, activist and Gabriela Women's Party spokesperson said while the Philippines has laws protecting women, women were still being discriminated against and abused in some workplaces.
    A 2022 report by the Philippine Statistics Authority said about 12,492 women in the Philippines suffered some form of abuse in 2021, with more than a quarter of the incidents being physical abuse.
    (Production: Jay Ereno, Peter Blaza)
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