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Finding the balance: Women's rights and the internet in the Philippines

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GenderIT.org writer Sonia Randhawa speak with Jelen Paclarin, executive director of the Women's Legal and Human Rights Bureau (WLB) in the Philippines, about the potential of the UPR to improve the lives of women in Philippines, the emerging forms of technology-related VAW and key challenges in addressing it, and the importance of women's representation in policy-making processes.

From 21 May to 4 June, the second cycle of the Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) will begin. One of the 14 countries being reviewed is the Philippines. The UPR is a unique mechanism for states and governments to tell other countries what they have achieved in promoting human rights – but also for non-state actors to raise issues of concern in a non-confrontational fashion.

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