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Gabriela Women’s Party is a sectoral party dedicated to promoting the rights and welfare of marginalized and under-represented Filipino women through participation in the country’s electoral system and organs of governance. It is a sectoral party composed of women 18 years and above, having varied occupations, education, interests, ethnic origin, religious affiliation, and sexual orientation. Gabriela Women’s Party seeks to harness the potential, initiative, skills, and leadership of marginalized women towards empowerment, justice, and equality.
THE PHILIPPINES - GABRIELA WOMEN'S
PARTY DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES
We, members of
the Gabriela Women’s Party, in the spirit of the Filipina’s unbroken legacy of
political participation – from the Babaylan of pre-Hispanic times to the
Gabriela Silang of today; committed to uphold the interest of the broad masses
of Filipino women and their families; dedicated to advancing the rights and
promoting the well-being of women, especially of the more marginalized and
under-represented; determined to encourage, develop and harness women’s full
potential, leadership and collective creativity, hereby declare that:
1.
Women have the right to a society where
all forms of discrimination and violence against women have been banished;
2.
Women have the right equal to men to
the land they work on; as well as the right to full and gainful employment and
living wages;
3.
Women have the right to participate
freely in all aspects of political debates, action, and decision-making
processes in the family, the community and the nation at large; as well as the
right to fair and non-sexist representation in all social, political, economic
and cultural spheres;
4.
Women have the right to fight for basic
health care and services for all, especially reproductive and maternal health
care;
5.
Women have the right to a marriage
founded on mutual consent and respect, with equality and dignity, and to
adequate support for the rearing and caring of children;
6.
Women have the right to fight for
children’s basic needs like proper care, nutrition, health, safety and play,
protection from abuse and exploitation; access to a national, scientific and
mass education which is non-sexist as well;
7.
Women have the right to advocate for
lesbian and gay rights and to insist that society not discriminate on the basis
of sexual preference;
8.
Women have the right to assert and
protect their country’s sovereignty and national patrimony;
9.
Women have the right to a foreign
policy that is independent and beneficial to our economy and security as a
nation;
10.
Women have the right to a government
that is truly democratic and representative of the majority.