VAW survivors back Babaeng BiyaHero campaign
To continue the fight against gender violence, Safe and Fair Philippines organized an activity entitled "Empowering Voices, Empowering Choices: Women ...
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Upsilon Sigma Phi serenades and offers pink roses to U.P. students, faculty, and staff to campaign against online sexual abuse and exploitation of children
Members of the Upsilon Sigma Phi Fraternity have offered almost 2000 pieces of pink roses and serenaded women and students ...
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Weinstein used Hollywood power to rape, court hears
Harvey Weinstein used his power and influence in Hollywood to rape women, leaving them terrified for their careers if they ...
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In Iraq, divorce rates soar even as stigma persists for women
By Salam Faraj Just a year into her marriage, Manal became one of the tens of thousands of Iraqis every ...
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Saudi women reject stigma to embrace pole dancing
By Rania Sanjar When yoga instructor Nada took up pole dancing, the backlash in deeply conservative Saudi Arabia was both ...
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87 women hospitalized in gas leak
At least 87 women have been hospitalized after a gas leak at an apparel manufacturing plant in India, local media ...
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Creating safe spaces for women
Joyce Pring-Triviño’s message about healing and recovery from traumatic experiences was very clear—healing is not achievable alone. Healing cannot happen ...
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Sanya Lopez celebrates empowered women in debut single
After starring in GMA Network’s highly-anticipated and successful series First Lady, actress and television star Sanya Lopez is out and ...
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Gaza’s women and girls see no escape from violence
Seventeen-year-old Istabraq Baraka fell pregnant soon after her wedding in the Gaza Strip. Three months later her husband killed her. ...
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Coo promises to sustain PSC’s programs on women
Bowling icon Olivia “Bong” Coo vowed to sustain the efforts of the Philippines Sports Commission in developing Filipina athletes, who ...
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Manila Standard website (manilastandard.net), launched in August 2002, extends the newspaper’s reach beyond its traditional readers and makes its brand of Philippine news and opinion available to a much wider and geographically diverse readership here and overseas.