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“Gabriela Women’s Party supports the call to end the period of interpellation on the RH Bill. It is time that we work on amending the bill to make it more responsive to the health needs of poor women. We support the vote to end the debates with the aim of pushing for amendments to three incongruent provisions of HB 4244 that continue to drumbeat population control as the solution to poverty.  read more »

As Congress moves to vote on the termination of interpellations on the RH bill, Gabriela Women’s Party Representative Emmi De Jesus said that the marginalized women’s clamor for help should be heard above the din over the RH bill.  read more »

“The continuing plague of poverty and joblessness makes the poor more vulnerable to the effects of inflation. Women suffer more because she is traditionally the keeper of the purse. Isipin mo kung paano sila magbabadyet samantalang wala naman silang pera?” said Gabriela Women's Party Rep. Emmi De Jesus on the NSO report that the buying power of Filipinos has gone down by two centavos as the rise in prices of goods and services eroded the peso's real value.  read more »

Gabriela Women’s Party Representative Luz Ilagan today said that more than the Catholic Church, or the lobby for perks and pork, it should be the women and constituents’ right and need for healthcare that should dictate the vote on the Reproductive Health Bill and prod legislators to allot a bigger budget for health services.

“The state of women and children’s un-health should be the primary consideration when they cast their vote to end debates and interpellation on August 7,” said Ilagan.  read more »

“This Charter Change telenovela is passé. The drama of Congress leaders trying to convince President Aquino to endorse Charter Change is a clear attempt at screening the latter from the dire repercussions of Charter Change.”

Thus said Gabriela Women’s Party Representative Luz Ilagan with Malacanang supposedly playing coy to proposals to amend the Constitution.  read more »

“The determination and political will to repair the economic and political structures lies not in amending the economic provisions of the Constitution but in creating pro-people economic policies that will support the economic and human resources development of the country. The development of a sovereign country does not depend on laws that cater to the needs of foreign interests, but in the government’s full support of its human resources and responsible use of the nation’s natural resources.”  read more »

Gabriela Women's Party Representative Luz Ilagan today said President Aquino's third State of the Nation Address was a strained attempt at creating a colorful picture of the country's weak economy that in fact fails to deliver promised jobs, land reform and basic services to the poorest Filipinos.  read more »

Gabriela Women's Party Representative Luz Ilagan today said President Aquino's third State of the Nation Address was a strained attempt at creating a colorful picture of the country's weak economy that in fact fails to deliver promised jobs, land reform and basic services to the poorest Filipinos.  read more »

“No frills, no glitter. A simple straightforward design lifted from the peasant Filipiniana that does not detach itself from the frugal and humble lifestyle of the majority of Filipino women in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. It is also a LuzViMinda gown. Our call for women’s access to healthcare is in Tagalog, the fabric came from Iloilo and it was cut designed and sewn in Davao. ”  read more »