‘In 2013, the Philippine National Police Women and Children Protection Center (PNP-WCPC) recorded a total of 5,493 rape incidents involving women and child victims. That’s approximately one reported rape incident every 96 minutes. … [The Center for Women’s Resources] has observed cases where authorities asked judgmental questions -- “Bakit kasi gabi ka na umuwi? Ano ba yung damit mo? Bakit di ka nagpasama?... Bakit ka nakipag-inuman doon, kababae mong tao?” – that made rape victims blame themselves for what happened to them. (“Why did you come home late? What clothes were you wearing? Why didn’t you ask someone to accompany you? You’re a girl… why did you join the drinking session?”)’
Posted on: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 04:23:11 +0000
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