Module 3: GAD Related Issues and Applicable Laws

Question 1

An Act Declaring Sexual Harassment Unlawful in the Employment, Education or Training Environment, and For Other Purposes.

Answer 1

Republic Act 7877: Anti-Sexual Harassment Act of 1995

Question 2

What is stated in SECTION 2. Declaration of Policy?

Answer 2

“The State shall value the dignity of every individual, development of human resources, respect human rights, and dignity of workers, employees, applicants for employment, students”

Question 3

RA 7877 defines sexual harassment as?

Answer 3

as those committed by the more powerful when they demand, request, or otherwise require any SEXUAL FAVOR from the less powerful regardless whether this was accepted or not.

Question 4

SECTION 3. Work, Education or Training-Related Sexual Harassment Defined

Answer 4

Work, education or training-related sexual harassment is committed by an employer, employee, manager, supervisor, agent of the employer, teacher, instructor, professor, coach, trainor, or any other person who, having authority, influence or moral ascendancy over another in a work or training or education environment demands, requests or otherwise requires any sexual favor from the other, regardless of whether the demand, request or requirement for submission is accepted by the object of said Act.

Question 5

Sexual harassment as defined can be understood within the context of the so-called

Answer 5

“Power Relationships”

Question 6

AN ACT DEFINING GENDER-BASED SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN STREETS, PUBLIC SPACES, ONLINE, WORKPLACES, AND EDUCATIONAL OR TRAINING INSTITUTIONS, PROVIDING PROTECTIVE MEASURES AND PRESCRIBING PENALTIES

Answer 6

Republic Act 11313:
Safe Spaces Act

Question 7

Punishable Acts (as further defined in RA No. 11313)

Answer 7

• Gender-based sexual harassment in streets and public spaces
• Gender-based online sexual harassment
• Gender based sexual harrassment in the workplace and educational or training institutions

Question 8

AN ACT REQUIRING ALL ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS TO ADOPT
POLICIES TO PREVENT AND ADDRESS THE ACTS OF BULLYING IN THEIR INSTITUTIONS

Answer 8

RA 101627: Anti-Bullying Act of 2013

Question 9

Refer to any severe or repeated use by one or more students of a written, verbal or electronic expression, or a physical act or gesture, or any combination thereof, directed at another student that has the effect of actually causing or placing the latter in reasonable fear of physical or emotional harm or damage to his
property

Answer 9

Bullying

Question 10

AN ACT DEFINING CYBERCRIME, PROVIDING FOR THE PREVENTION, INVESTIGATION, SUPPRESSION AND THE IMPOSITION OF PENALTIES THEREFORAND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

Answer 10

RA 10175: Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012

Question 11

It is a special law, which penalizes as a public crime certain acts of violence against women and their
children.

Answer 11

RA 9262: ANTI- VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN

Question 12

Is any act or a series of acts committed against the victim which result in or is likely to result in physical, sexual, psychological harm or suffering,
or economic abuse including threats of such acts, battery, assault, coercion, harassment or arbitrary deprivation of liberty.

Answer 12

“Violence against women and their children”

Question 13

Who is the woman victim protected under RA 9262?

Answer 13

a) wife; or
b) former wife; or
c) a woman with whom the offender has or had a sexual or dating relationship; or
d) a woman with whom the offender has a common child;

Question 14

Who are the children victims protected under RA 9262?

Answer 14

abused woman’s children, boy or girl alike, below 18 years old, whether legitimate or illegitimate; or other children who live with the woman or are under her care.

Question 15

Who is the “offender”?

Answer 15

a) husband;
b) former husband;
c) boyfriend;
d) Ex-boyfriend;
e) live-in partner or ex-partner
f) one with whom the woman has a common child;
g) one with whom the woman has/had sexual or dating relationship

Question 16

Can a woman be held liable for committing violation of RA 9262?

Answer 16

Yes. A lesbian partner/girlfriend or ex-lesbian partner/girlfriend can also be held liable for
committing act

Question 17

refers to an act of inflicting physical harm upon the woman or her child resulting to
physical and psychological or emotional distress.

Answer 17

Battery

Question 18

is one who is repeatedly subjected to any forceful, physical or psychological
behavior by a man in order to coerce her to do something he wants her to do without concern for her rights.

Answer 18

Battered Woman

Question 19

refers to an intentional act committed by a person who, knowingly and without lawful justification, follows the woman or her child, or places the woman or her child under surveillance directly or indirectly or a combination thereof.

Answer 19

Stalking

Question 20

refers to a single sexual act which may or may not result in the bearing of a common child.

Answer 20

“Sexual relations”

Question 21

refers to a situation wherein the parties live as husband and wife without the benefit of marriage or are romantically involved overtime and on a continuing basis during the course of the relationship.

Answer 21

“Dating relationship”

Question 22

What does “public crime” mean?

Answer 22

Any citizen who has personal knowledge of the crime can file a criminal complaint.

Question 23

What are the forms of Violence against Women?

Answer 23

1) “Physical violence” which refers to acts that include bodily or physical harm;
2) “Sexual violence” which refers to an act which is sexual in nature, committed against a woman or
her child.
3) “Psychological violence” which refers to acts or omissions causing or likely to cause mental or
emotional suffering of the victim”
4) “Economic abuse” which refers to acts that make or attempt to make a woman financially
dependent;

Question 24

refers to recruitment, transportation, transfer or harboring, or receipt
of persons with or without the victim’s consent or knowledge, within or across national borders by means of threat or use of force,

Answer 24

Trafficking in Persons

Question 25

is an act that institutes policies to eliminate trafficking in persons especially women and children. Also, it establishes the necessary mechanisms to protect and support trafficked persons and provides
penalties thereof.

Answer 25

RA 10364: Expanded Anti-Trafficking in Person Act of 2012

Question 26

What are the acts punishable under RA 10364?

Answer 26

1. Acts of Trafficking in Persons
2. Acts that promote trafficking
3. Used of Trafficked Persons
4. Qualified Trafficking
5. Attemted Trafficking in Persons