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Police rescue 16 women from alleged pimp in Caloocan

Maan Macapagal, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 14 06:42 PM

The Philippine National Police Women and Children Protection Center (PNP-WCPC) has rescued 16 female including 5 minors from their alleged pimp after they were offered to tourists residing in a resort in Caloocan City. Read more »

'I will rape you': How female journalists face abuse

Sonia Elks, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Posted at Sep 14 05:44 AM

Nearly two-thirds said they had suffered online harassment or threats, with more than one in ten reporting it happened often or daily. Read more »

Airline to recruit Saudi women as co-pilots

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 14 12:01 AM

Riyadh-based carrier Flynas has announced plans to recruit Saudi women to work as co-pilots and flight attendants for the first time, just months after the kingdom lifted a decades-long ban on female motorists. Read more »

CBS CEO Moonves resigns after sexual misconduct claims

Kenneth Li, Reuters
Posted at Sep 10 08:11 AM

CBS also announced a deal to end litigation against controlling shareholder Shari Redstone and National Amusements Inc for control of the broadcaster and media company. Read more »

House OKs bill prohibiting work discrimination vs women

RG Cruz, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 04 07:08 PM

Voting 197-0-0, lawmakers passed House Billi 6769 or the “Expanding the Prohibition of Discriminatory Acts against Women on Account of Sex.”  Read more »

OPINION: Sick

Ellen T. Tordesillas
Posted at Sep 03 10:21 PM

President Duterte was in his element again – spewing expletives, spreading lies, concocting fake news -when he was in Cebu Thursday last week for Mandaue City’s 49th Charter Day celebration. Read more »

Duterte defends joke on Davao rape cases

Dharel Placido, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 03 07:56 AM

President Rodrigo Duterte has defended himself from criticism over his latest rape joke, saying it was part of freedom of expression. Read more »

Duterte 'very supportive' of women's rights, concedes body that hit rape joke

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 02 12:51 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte has been "very supportive" of women's rights, even when he was still mayor of Davao City, the Philippine Commission on Women (PCW) conceded Sunday after criticizing his joke on rape.  Read more »

'No laughing matter': Rape a crime, human rights violation, says Commission on Women

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 01 02:56 PM

MANILA - Rape is a crime, never a woman’s fault, the Philippine Commission on Women (PCS) said Saturday, days after President Rodrigo Duterte said in jest that women are raped because of their good looks. Read more »

How food photographer defied odds, put focus on female visual artists

Dove
Updated as of Aug 23 11:50 AM

Almost a decade after being turned down for an apprenticeship because a photographer did not want to make a girl carry heavy lights and equipment, Mylene Chung now leads a team of lensmen and women in capturing the tastiest images of food in the country. Read more »

NZ's Minister for Women gives birth to baby boy after cycling to hospital

Charlotte Greenfield, Reuters
Posted at Aug 22 07:30 AM

New Zealand's Minister for Women Julie Anne Genter announced on Wednesday that she had delivered her first child, a baby boy, after cycling to hospital and becoming the country's second member of the government, after Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, to give birth this year.   Read more »

Book about Filipino women taken offline in Korea

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 20 05:07 PM

MANILA - A book about Filipina women written by a Korean man has been removed from online book retailers after complaints that it is "obscene and racist." Read more »

Japan must do more for WWII 'comfort women': UN experts

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 17 09:04 PM

Mainstream historians say up to 200,000 women, mostly from Korea but also from other parts of Asia including China and the Philippines, were forced to work in Japanese military brothels during World War II. Read more »

Not only a man’s world: IBM champions women in tech

Cathy Yang, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Aug 16 10:05 PM

Technology is not a man’s world here in the Philippines and definitely not at global firm IBM, its Asia Pacific head Harriet Green said Wednesday. Read more »

Surfer Elaine Abonal rides the tide against all odds

Dove
Updated as of Aug 23 11:49 AM

Professional surfer Elaine Abonal believes that Filipinas should be able to pursue their dreams and dance with the waves and ride the tide if they want to. Read more »

Chile in shock as 10 women perish in nursing home blaze

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 15 05:47 AM

Ten women burned to death in a blaze at a Chilean nursing home Tuesday, shocking the country and prompting a call by President Sebastian Pinera to shake consciences over treatment of the elderly. Read more »

S.Korea marks first 'comfort women' day, joined by protestors in Taiwan

Joyce Lee and Yimou Lee, Reuters
Posted at Aug 14 04:18 PM

The comfort women issue has been a regular cause for contention between Japan and neighbors including China and North and South Korea since the war. Read more »

Advocate inspires, mentors young women in the workplace

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 08 07:28 PM

Young women can easily be mentored to excel in the workplace, a women empowerment advocate said on Wednesday. Read more »

'Murphy Brown' revival to tackle sexual misconduct with #MurphyToo

Lisa Richwine, Reuters
Updated as of Aug 06 08:29 AM

The new season starring Candice Bergen as a pioneering newswoman is scheduled to premiere on Sept. 27. Read more »

Hundreds of moms in show of support for breast-feeding

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 05 04:48 PM

Hundreds of Philippine mothers simultaneously nursed their babies in public on Sunday, some of them 2 at a time, in a government-backed mass breastfeeding event aimed at combating child deaths. Read more »