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18-DAY CAMPAIGN TO END VAW KICKS-OFF IN BUTUAN

Tuesday 27th of November 2012

BUTUAN CITY, Nov. 27 (PIA) -- The 18-Day Campaign to End Violence Against Women (VAW) kicked-off Monday with a fun walk activity that started from Guingona Park going to the Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) grounds here, with Maria Lourdes Veneracion-Rallonza, assistant professor of the Ateneo de Manila University as guest speaker. Rallonza said there is really a need to put an end to any form of violence against women. “Violence to women does not only refer to physical but also psychological, emotional, and economical. Based on statistics, most of the recorded cases involved domestic violence,” Rallonza said. Rallonza also cited tha...

BUTUAN CITY, Sept. 16 (PIA) -- The technical working group of the Gender and Development Coordinating Committee (GADCC) Caraga lined-up activities for the 18-Day Campaign to End Violence Against Women (VAW), on November 25 to December 12. The GADCC is under the Regional Development Council (RDC) chaired by Commission on Human Rights (CHR) Caraga Regional Director Atty. Marylin Pintor. Pintor said that every year, the Caraga GADCC spearheads the 18-day campaign to end VAW. It is an internati...

BUTUAN CITY, Mar. 8 (PIA) -- In line with this year’s Women’s Month celebration with the theme “Women Weathering Climate Change: Governance and Accountability, Everyone’s Responsibility,” member-agencies of the Gender and Development Coordinating Committee (GADCC) Caraga converged Thursday for the 8th Kalandrakas in one of the local convention centers here. Commission on Human Rights (CHR) Caraga Regional Director and GADCC chairperson Atty. Marylin...

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Feb

2012

2012 Women’s Month celebr highlights disaster risk reduction as everyone’s responsibility

BUTUAN CITY, Feb. 17 (PIA) -- This year’s celebration of the women’s month in March with the theme “Women Weathering Climate Change: Governance and Accountability, Everyone’s Responsibility,” underscores the role of women as powerful agents of change in relation to disaster risk reduction (DRR), according to Gender and Development Coordinating Committee chairperson Atty. Marylin Pintor. “The theme is also in consonance with the continuing nati...
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May

2011

Brgy. officials can help prevent violence against women and children

BUTUAN CITY, May 2 (PIA) – Barangay officials play an important role in preventing violence against women and children (VAWC). Atty. Josefe Sorrera-Ty , in the weekly radio program of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)-Caraga, said, the basic form of governance starts in the barangay level, thus, the only group of people who can directly help the victims are the barangay officials. Specifically , Sorrera-Ty said the barangay officials can issue...