PHILIPPINE COMMISSION ON WOMEN National Gender and Development Resource Program Legal Mandates PRE-TEST 1.
Level of knowledge on Legal Mandates (please encircle) 1
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(1 – lowest, 5 – highest)
2. Answer the following questions by encircling what you think is the correct answer. If your answer is false, write the correct answer in the space provided. QUESTIONS
1. RA 9262 (ANTI-VAWC) expanded the range of actionable
IF FALSE, WHAT’S THE CORRECT ANSWER? TRUE FALSE
violence to physical, sexual, psychological and economic violence.
2. Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2003 (Republic Act 9208) as
TRUE FALSE
amended by RA 10364 defines acts of trafficking in persons as follows: recruit, transport, transfer; harbor, provide, or receive a person by any means, including those done under the pretext of domestic or overseas employment or training or apprenticeship, for the purpose of prostitution, pornography, sexual exploitation, forced labor, slavery, involuntary servitude or debt bondage.
3. R. A. 8353 is also known as the Anti-Sexual Harassment Act of
It also includes the removal or sale of (human) organs
TRUE FALSE
1995 which makes sexual harassment in work, education and training environments punishable by law.
RA 8353 or “Anti Rape Law of 1997”/RA 7877 Or Anti-Sexual Harassment Act of 1995
4. Under RA 9363, Violence against Women and their children is Legal Mandates (Gender-based Violence) Pre-testPage 1
TRUE FALSE
RA 9262
defined as an act or a series of acts committed by any person against a woman who is his wife, former wife, or against a woman with whom the person has or had a sexual or dating relationship, or with whom he has a common child, or against her child whether legitimate or illegitimate, within or without the family abode, which result in or is likely to result in physical, sexual, psychological harms or suffering, or economic abuse including threats of such acts, battery, assault, coercion, harassment or arbitrary deprivation of liberty.
5. Republic Act 7877 or Anti-Sexual Harassment Act of 1997 only
TRUE FALSE
covers forms of sexual harassment in work, education or training-related environments when the offender has authority, influence, moral ascendancy over the victim (e.g. teacher and student; supervisor and direct report).
6. RA 8353 or the “Anti-Rape Law of 1995” recognizes that even
TRUE FALSE
married women can be raped by their husbands but also provides that “the subsequent forgiveness by the wife as the offended party shall extinguish the criminal action or the penalty” of the act.
7. Republic Act 10364 or “the Responsible Parenthood and
TRUE FALSE
Reproductive Health Act of 2012” recognizes the academic freedom of private schools and exempts them from including a Reproductive Health subject in their curricula.
8. RA 8505 or “The Rape Victim Assistance and Protection Act of 1998” provides for the establishment of a Rape Crisis Center in every province and city to provide assistance to rape victims. Aside from providing recovery programs for victim-survivors and legal assistance, the Center also offers programs for the reintegration of offenders.
TRUE FALSE
RA 10354/Private high schools are not exempted from including a reproductive health subject in their curricula
9. RA 10361 or “the Batas Kasambahay” does not covers family
TRUE FALSE
drivers and persons who only perform work for a household occasionally or sporadically and not on an occupational basis.
10. Under the VAWC Act of 2004, victims are entitled to a paid leave of absence up to five (5) days in addition to other paid leaves under the Labor Code and Civil Service Rules and Regulations.
TOTAL NUMBER OF CORRECT ANSWERS
Legal Mandates (Gender-based Violence) Pre-testPage 3
TRUE FALSE
Ten (10) days