Hontiveros hits Duterte's 1st year: "Dangerous year for women"

According to Senator Risa Hontiveros, President Rodrigo Duterte’s first year is a year of “misogyny.


    “The first year of the Duterte government is a dangerous year to be a woman. It is marked by a colossal human rights crisis. It is the year of misogyny and extrajudicial killings It is a year of national grieving,”


Hontiveros said during a women’s forum at the Ateneo de Manila University on Friday, the transcript of which was released to the media.



The opposition senator listed the examples that would show the “growing misogynist culture” in the Duterte government. These include Duterte’s “trivialization of rape, reference of women public leaders to body parts, catcalling a female reporter and justifying it as freedom of expression and as a compliment, the distasteful reality of gender-based online harassment, and slut-shaming.”

But Hontiveros stressed that progressive women in the government will continue to resist.


    “They can shame us with rape jokes, barrage us with fake news and threaten us with trumped up charges and even incarceration, but we will not relent. We will continue to resist. We need more progressive women to fight because if some men are too afraid to stand up for human dignity, then, it will be the courage of women that will take up the torch, beat the drum, and lead the way,” she said.

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