Book on Gender-Sensitive Jurisprudence launched INQ7.net
October 23, 2006
The UP Center for Women's Studies Foundation, Inc. and UNIFEM-Bangkok have published a book entitled “Engendering the Philippine Judiciary” by Rowena V. Guanzon, Aurora Javate-de Dios, Damcelle Torres, and Theresa Balayon.
“Engendering” hopes to raise the awareness of judges and justices on gender and the use of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) in judicial practice. It also hopes to contribute to the development of legal theory and gender-fair jurisprudence.
The book is part of the Gender Justice Awards project which aims to recognize judges who rendered gender-sensitive decisions in cases of violence against women and girl-children. More than documenting the Awards as an advocacy and enabling strategy for judicial reform, the book discusses the problem of gender discrimination in the courts and offers gender analyses as a tool for judges.
It also includes the use of the CEDAW in Philippine jurisprudence and in other jurisdictions, as well as case digests of Supreme Court decisions on violence against women.
Copies of the book are available for P350.00 each at the UP Center for Women's Studies, UP Diliman, Quezon City For orders, call Ms. Vicky Bitanga at 920-6880 or 09198332970.
