Happy International Women’s Day! The road to gender equality is a long and challenging journey for all of us, but we continue and remain steadfast despite these hurdles. Today, we celebrate and honor all kinds of women from different walks…
The 5th National Women’s Summit was held last March 4-6, 2020 in celebration of the 25 years of the Beijing Platform for Action. The summit was held at Miriam College, Quezon City wherein parallel sessions tackled issues and challenges faced…
GALANG Philippines, together with UNDP Philippines, Commission on Human Rights, and Overseas Development Institute launched the results of their research entitled, “Making It Work: Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Women’s Economic Empowerment in the Philippines” through a national dissemination workshop held…
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a landmark document which declares that all human beings are entitled to rights. This year, UN’s #YouthStandingUpForHumanRights aims to encourage and amplify the voices of the youth like Greta Thunberg who is passionately advocating on…
More than 2 decades have passed since Filipino lesbians from different regions of the country came together in 1996, and asserted that December 8 is National Lesbian Day. Yet, we still face the same homophobia, violence and the different forms…
HIV is an illness that anybody can have regardless of their SOGIE, and should be regarded similar with any other medical illness. We should do our part to end the stigma that people living with HIV experience so that they…
The International Anti-Bullying campaign started in November 2004 when a boy wore a pink polo shirt to school, and was bullied because they thought he was gay. Two upperclassmen, Travis Price and David Shepherd, took a stand, and encouraged their…
Today marks the start of the week-long celebration of Transgender Awareness, which leads up to the 20th anniversary of the International Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR). Commemorating TDOR visibilizes transgender people, zooms in to their lived experiences, and the discrimination…
