MODULE 3 - GAD Related Issues and Applicable Laws
MODULE 3 - GAD Related Issues and Applicable Laws
MODULE 3 - GAD Related Issues and Applicable Laws
Sec. 2. Declaration of Policies. – It is the policy of the State to value the dignity of every human
person and guarantee full respect for human rights. It is likewise the policy of the State to recognize
the role of women in nation-building and ensure the fundamental equality before the law of women
and men. The State also recognizes that both men and women must have equality, security and
safety not only in private, but also on the streets, public spaces, online, workplaces and educational
and training institutions.
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Failure of employers or school heads to Fine of not less than five thousand pesos
implement their duties under the Safe (P5,000.00) nor more than ten thousand
Spaces Act (i.e. including setting of pesos (P10,000.00)
administrative penalties to violations of
gender-based sexual harassment in the
workplace)
Failure of employers or school heads to Fine of not less than ten thousand pesos
take action on reported acts of gender- (P10,000.00) nor more than fifteen
based sexual harassment committed in the thousand pesos (P15,000.00)
workplace or in the educational institution
In addition to penalizing acts of gender-based sexual harassment in public places, the Safe
Spaces Act also expands the 1995 Anti-Sexual Harassment Act. Formerly, sexual
harassment was only punished when committed by someone who has authority, influence,
or moral ascendancy over the victim. Under the Safe Spaces Act, acts committed between
peers, by a subordinate to a superior officer, by a student to a teacher, or by a trainee to a
trainer are now covered as punishable sexual harassment.
It involves the
recruitment, It is committed It is done for the
obtaining, hiring, by use of threat or use purpose of
providing, or receipt of force, or other forms exploitation which
of persons with or of coercion, abduction, includes at a
receipt of persons fraud, deception, abuse
with or without the minimum, the
victim’s consent or
of power or of position, exploitation or the
knowledge, within or taking advantage of the prostitution of others
across national vulnerability of the or other forms of
borders. person, or, the giving sexual exploitation,
or receiving of forced labor or
payments or benefits to services, slavery,
achieve the consent of servitude or the
a person having removal or sale of
control over another organs.
person.
Facilitating, assisting or helping in the exit and entry of persons from/to the country at
international and local airports who have fraudulent travel documents for the purposes of
promoting trafficking in persons;
Confiscating, concealing or destroying the passport, travel documents of trafficked persons
in furtherance of trafficking to prevent them from leaving the country;
Benefiting from, financial or otherwise, the labor services of a person held to a condition of
involuntary servitude, forced labor or slavery; and
Utilizing his or her office to impede the investigation, prosecution or execution of lawful
orders in a case under this Act.
Any person found guilty of acts of TIP shall be penalized with imprisonment of
15 years and a fine of not less than 500 thousand but not more than 1 million pesos.
3. Use of Trafficked Persons
Any person who buys or engages the services of trafficked persons for prostitution shall be
penalized.
Any person found guilty of acts of TIP shall be penalized with imprisonment
ranging from six (6) years to forty (40) years and fine ranging from 50 thousand to 5
million pesos.
An addition to imprisonment and fine, an offender who is a foreigner shall be
immediately deported and permanently barred from the entering the country after
serving jail terms, while an offender who is a public official shall be dismissed from the
service and suffer perpetual absolute disqualification to hold public office.
4. Qualified Trafficking
The following are an act of qualified trafficking:
When the trafficked person is a child;
When the adoption is for the purpose of prostitution, pornography, sexual exploitation
and the like;
When the crime is committed by a syndicate;
When the offender is a spouse, an ascendant, parent, sibling, guardian or a person who
exercises authority over the trafficked person;
When the offender is a member of the military or law enforcement agency; and
When by reason or occasion of the act, the offended party dies, becomes insane, or
been afflicted by HIV-AIDS
When the offender commits one or more violations of Section 4 over a period of sixty
or more days, continuous or not; and
When the offender directs or through another manages the trafficking victim in
carrying out exploitative purpose of trafficking.
Qualified trafficking shall be penalized by life imprisonment and a fine of not less
than 2 million but not more than 5 million pesos.
5. Attempted Trafficking in Persons
Under R.A. 10364, attempted trafficking is any act to initiate the commission of a
trafficking offense but the offender failed to or did not execute all the elements of the crime due to
accident or by reason of some cause other than voluntary desistance.
If the victim is a child, an act be considered attempted trafficking if a person if:
facilitates the travel of a child without clearance from DSWD or a written permit or
justification from the child’s parental/legal guardian;
executing, for a consideration, an affidavit of consent or written consent for adoption;
simulating a birth for the purpose of selling the child
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recruiting a woman to bear a child; simulating a birth; or soliciting a child and requiring
custody through any means from hospital, health centers and the like, all for the purpose of
selling the child.
Any person found guilty of committing attempted TIP shall be penalized with
imprisonment of 15 years and a fine of not less than 500 thousand but not more than 1
million pesos.
When a child travels alone to a foreign country without valid reason therefor and without
clearance issued by the Department of Social Welfare and Development or written permit or
justification from the child's parents or legal guardian;
When a person, agency, establishment or child-caring institution recruits women or couples to
bear children for the purpose of child trafficking; or
When a doctor, hospital or clinic official or employee, nurse, midwife, local civil registrar or
any other person simulates birth for the purpose of child trafficking; or
When a person engages in the act of finding children among low-income families, hospitals,
clinics, nurseries, day-care centers, or other child-during institutions who can be offered for the
purpose of child trafficking.
Obscene Publications and Indecent Shows.
Any person who shall hire, employ, use, persuade, induce or coerce a child to perform in
obscene exhibitions and indecent shows, whether live or in video, or model in obscene
publications or pornographic materials or to sell or distribute the said materials shall suffer the
penalty of prison mayor in its medium period.
If the child used as a performer, subject or seller/distributor is below twelve (12) years of age,
the penalty shall be imposed in its maximum period.
Any ascendant, guardian, or person entrusted in any capacity with the care of a child who shall
cause and/or allow such child to be employed or to participate in an obscene play, scene, act,
movie or show or in any other acts covered by this section shall suffer the penalty of prison
mayor in its medium period.
There is an attempt to commit child trafficking of this Act: 1
When a child travels alone to a foreign country without valid reason therefor and without
clearance issued by the Department of Social Welfare and Development or written permit or
justification from the child's parents or legal guardian;
When a person, agency, establishment or child-caring institution recruits women or couples to
bear children for the purpose of child trafficking; or
When a doctor, hospital or clinic official or employee, nurse, midwife, local civil registrar or
any other person simulates birth for the purpose of child trafficking; or
When a person engages in the act of finding children among low-income families, hospitals,
clinics, nurseries, day-care centers, or other child-during institutions who can be offered for the
purpose of child trafficking.
What are the distinguishing description of an accomplice liability
and accessory liability in RA 10364?
In RA 10364, one of the new provisions is the liabilities of an accomplice in trafficking.
Under this Act, an accomplice is anyone who knowingly aids, abets, cooperates in the execution of
the offense, whether by previous or simultaneous acts, and shall be punished in accordance with
this law.
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References:
https://pcw.gov.ph/republic-act-7877-anti-sexual-harassment-act-of-1995/
https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/2013/09/12/republic-act-no-10627/
https://pcw.gov.ph/republic-act-9262-anti-violence-against-women-and-their-children-act-of-2004/
https://www.dilg.gov.ph/PDF_File/reports_resources/dilg-reports-resources-
2017323_e21a5b9c4f.pdf
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