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The 2019 Expanded Maternity Leave Law_A Law Whose Progressive Potential Has Yet To Be Fully Realized

This study comes at a time when, even before the pandemic, many Filipino women were employed in precarious and low-wage work environment, often with inadequate or no access to social protection. While the Philippines provides a set of maternity benefit packages, including a 60-day paid maternity leave, the latter was viewed as problematic—too short and …

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Security Sector Reform and Sustainable Development Goal 16: Philippine Case Study

The book project reviews the security sector reform (SSR) interventions in the Philippines. It looks at the reform efforts in the military and police, the progress of the modernization and transformation roadmaps of these institutions, and provides an assessment using the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), human rights, and good governance principles as framework of analysis. …

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Engendering the Global Agenda: The Story of Women and the United Nations.

This book covers more than eighty years of history between women and inter-governmental organizations. Unrecorded by history and untold by the media, this book recalls the success story of women and the League of Nations, and describes the unfolding history of women at the United Nations up to the great progress for advancement and empowerment …

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