![]() If passed into law, SOGIE can increase security in restrooms because establishments would be mandated to assign personnel there, said Gretchen Diez, a trans woman who was briefly detained after trying to use a female restroom earlier this month. The SOGIE or Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Expression bill prohibits stigmatizing the LGBT in media and denying a person access to an institution, service or establishment based on gender, among others. "It does not mean that because there's sexual violence, we don't have to pass the SOGIE Equality bill and protect members of the LGBTIQ from discrimination," she said. Sexual violence, she added, "can happen anywhere" and "can be addressed by existing laws." "Stranger-to-stranger violence is very rare all over the world," she added. Studies show that most victims of sexual abuse personally know their aggressors, said Fontanas. There are no proven cases of transgender women harassing females in shared comfort rooms in the Philippines, said Naomi Fontanas, president of LGBT group Ganda Filipinas. That could happen to my daughter, someone might look in on her.) "May anak din akong babae, mamaya mangyari iyan sa anak kong babae, bosohan sa CR," he said. "Are our sisters and daughters safe doon sa (there in) bathroom?" he added during a Senate hearing on a proposed bill. "What if isang lalaking manyak, magsuot ng pambabae, mag-pretend to be a bakla, papasok doon sa CR, pwede syang mangharass," said Dela Rosa. Straight men could pretend to be transgender, enter a female comfort room and harass women there, said Dela Rosa, a former national police chief who said he backs gay marriage. Ronald Dela Rosa said Tuesday, as lawmakers tackled a proposed law prohibiting gender-based discrimination. Chairman, Your Honors.MANILA - Women might experience sexual harassment if transgender women are allowed to share their comfort rooms, Sen. The General also informed the visiting Senate panel that they are “now awaiting the authority of the Office of the Solicitor General” (OSG) for the expropriation cases since not all the lands to be made part of the camp are expropriated.īrawner added: “I understand we already have a letter from the OSG giving us that authority, so kahit na hindi pa po nabayaran iyong ibang mga may-ari ng lupa, we can go on already with the construction, Mr. And also, agreement between the Philippine Army, LWUA and the Water District of Marawi City, Your Honors.” In turn, Brawner informed the committee: “We will now move on with the survey and with the construction. Hindi na tayo makarinig ng problema diyan na sabihin na bumagal dahil ganito, ganoon, ganoon ,” Dela Rosa said. With the conflict already settled, as well as with the appointment of Revil, there is a need now to have a tripartite agreement between LWUA, PA, and the local water district of Marawi City with a possible lease agreement that gives the army a 25 percent discount. It will be recalled that during their similar meeting in September 2022, the panel noted that the bulk water project could not proceed because of some misunderstandings between LWUA and the PA, including the Army’s demand for free water supply to the camp and the lack of an administrator of LWUA. ![]() ![]() Revil, LWUA’s newly-appointed administrator, reported to the Dela Rosa-led committee at last Wednesday’s hearing.īrawner, commanding general of the PA, said the water tank will be placed at the highest peak of the army camp in Barangay Kapantaran or the old city hall, which will house a battalion, while the LWUA water treatment facility will be constructed at the lower area of the camp. In his message during the soft opening of Sarimanok Sports Stadium Friday, May 20, he. “I just talked with our very supportive General Romeo Brawner, who is here with us…he will be allowing now the final moving on of the project within the Philippine Army camp because that is where our bulk system, our bulk water project is,” Atty. MARAWI CITY, Lanao del Sur (PIA)-Senator Ronald Bato Dela Rosa commended the Task Force Bangon Marawi (TFBM) and the internally displaced persons (IDPs) for taking their share of responsibilities in the rehabilitation of the siege-stricken city. This developed as the Local Water Utilities Administration (LWUA) and the Philippine Army (PA), two of the implementing agencies of the water project, have broken their impasse, paving the way for the fast-tracking of the project. Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa, chairman of the Senate Special Committee on Marawi City Rehabilitation and Victims Compensation, said at the weekend he expected much faster implementation of the bulk water project component of the Marawi City rehabilitation program.
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