Make March 鈥楤awal Bastos Awareness Month鈥�
Akbayan party list Rep. Percival Cendaña said he wanted March which is National Women’s Month of March to be designated as “Bawal Bastos (Safe Spaces) Awareness Month” even as he urged the Philippine Women’s Commission (PWC) to check public and private sector compliance with the law against gender-based sexual harassment (GBSH). In filing House Resolution No. 2247 on Monday, Cendaña cited a provision of Republic Act No. 11313, or the Safe Spaces Act, which tasks the PWC to conduct a national awareness campaign on GBSH with other government agencies and local governments. “It’s already 2025. Sexual harassment of women and other gender identities should no longer be a thing. Crassness is prohibited on the streets, in the workplace, on social media and in government most of all. Everybody should be safe anywhere they go. No excuses,” he said. —JEANNETTE I. ANDRADE
