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WAM Philippine Laws

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Philippine Laws in Support to Women's Rights

RA 6655
(04/26/88)

An Act Establishing and Providing For A Free Public Secondary Education and For Other Purposes

RA 6657
(06/10/88)

An Act Instituting A Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program To Promote Social Justice and Industrialization, Providing The Mechanism For Its Implementation and For Other Purposes

RA 6725
(04/27/89)

An Act Strengthening The Prohibition On Discrimination Against Women With Respect To Terms and Conditions of Employment, Amending For The Purposes Article One Hundred Thirty-Five of the Labor Code, As Amended

RA 6728
(06/10/89)

An Act Providing Government Assistance To Students and Teachers in Private Education and Appropriating Funds Therefor

RA 6938
(03/10/90)

An Act To Ordain a Cooperative Code of the Philippines

RA 6809
(12/31/89)

An Act Lowering the Age of Majority From Twenty-One To Eighteen Years, Amending For The Purpose EO No. 209, and For Other Purposes

RA 6949
(04/10/90)

An Act To Declare March Eight of Every Year As A Working Special Holiday To Be Known As National Women's Day

RA 6955
(06/13/90)

An Act To Declare Unlawful The Practice of Matching For Marriage To Foreign Nationals On A Mail-Order Basis And For Other Similar Practices, Including The Advertisement, Publication, Printing or Distribution of Brochures, Fliers and Other Propaganda Materials In Furtherance Thereof And Providing Penalty Therefor

RA 6972
(11/23/90)

An Act Establishing A Day Care Center In Every Barangay Instituting Therein A Total Development and Protection of Children Program Appropriating Funds Therefor, and For Other Purposes

RA 6981
(4/24/91)

An Act Providing for Witness Protection Security and Benefit Program and for Other Purposes

RA 7192
(12/11/91)

An Act Promoting The Integration of Women As Full and Equal Partners of Men In Development and Nation Building and For Other Purposes

RA 7305
(03/26/92)

TheMagna Carta of Public HealthWorkers

RA 7309
(03/30/92)

An Act Creating A Board of Claims Under the Dept. of Justice For Victims of Unjust Imprisonment Or Detention and Victims of Violent Crimes and For Other Purposes

RA 7322
(03/30/92)

An Act Increasing Maternity Benefits In Favor Of Women Workers In The Private Sector, Amending For The Purpose Section 14-A of Republic Act No. 1161, As Amended And For Other Purposes

RA 7394
(04/13/92)

The Consumer Act Of The Philippines

RA 7610
(06/17/92)

An Act Providing For Stronger Deterrence And Special protection Against Child Abuse, Exploitation and Discrimination, Providing Penalties For Its Violation, and For Other Purposes

RA 7655
(08/19/93)

An Act Increasing the Minimum Wage of Househelpers Amending for the Purpose Article 143 of Presidential Decree No. 142, Amended

RA 7659
(12/13/93)

An Act To Impose The Death Penalty on Certain Heinous Crimes, Amending For The Purpose the Revised Penal Code, As Amended, Other Special Penal Laws, and For Other Purposes

RA 7941
(03/03/95)

An Act Providing For The Election of Party-List Representatives Through The Party-List System, And Appropriating Funds Therefor

RA 8042
(02/20/95)

An Act To Institute The Policies of Overseas Employment and Establish a Higher Standard of Protection and Promotion of the Welfare of Migrant Workers, Their Families and Overseas Filipinos in Distress, and For Other Purposes

RA 8171
(10/23/95)

An Act Providing For The Repatriation of Filipino Women Who Have Lost Their Philippines Citizenship By Marriage To Aliens and of Natural- Born Filipinos

RA 8187
(06/11/96)

An Act Granting Paternity Leave of Seven (7) Days With Full Pay To All Married Male Employees in the Private and Public Sectors for the First Four (4) Deliveries of the Legitimate Spouse With Whom He is Cohabiting and For Other Purposes

RA 8369
(10/28/97)

An Act Establishing Family Courts, Granting Them Exclusive Original Jurisdiction Over Child and Family Cases, Amending BP No. 192, As Amended, Otherwise Known as the Judiciary Reorganization Act of 1980, Appropriating Funds Therefor and For Other Purposes

RA 8505
(02/13/98)

An Act Providing Assistance and Protection for Rape Victims, Establishing for the Purpose a Rape Crisis Center in Every Province and City, Authorizing the Appropriation of Funds Therefor and for Other Purposes

RA 8972
(11/07/00)

An Act Providing for Benefits and Privileges to Solo Parents and Their Children, Appropriating Funds Therefor and for Other Purposes