Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 84 views

    Anti-Violence Against Women and Their Children Act of

    Uploaded by

    sam cadley
    The document defines violence against women and their children under Philippine law. It describes four types of violence: physical, sexual, psychological, and economic. It then lists specific acts that constitute violence, such as rape, sexual harassment, intimidation, and controlling a woman's financial resources. The law created protection orders to prevent further violence, including barangay, temporary, and permanent protection orders. Finally, it outlines various forms of relief that courts can order, such as prohibiting contact, removing the respondent from the home, granting child custody, and requiring restitution.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Anti-Violence Against Women and Their Children Act of

    Uploaded by

    sam cadley
    84 views15 pages
    The document defines violence against women and their children under Philippine law. It describes four types of violence: physical, sexual, psychological, and economic. It then lists specific acts that constitute violence, such as rape, sexual harassment, intimidation, and controlling a woman's financial resources. The law created protection orders to prevent further violence, including barangay, temporary, and permanent protection orders. Finally, it outlines various forms of relief that courts can order, such as prohibiting contact, removing the respondent from the home, granting child custody, and requiring restitution.

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    The document defines violence against women and their children under Philippine law. It describes four types of violence: physical, sexual, psychological, and economic. It then lists specific acts that constitute violence, such as rape, sexual harassment, intimidation, and controlling a woman's financial resources. The law created protection orders to prevent further violence, including barangay, temporary, and permanent protection orders. Finally, it outlines various forms of relief that courts can order, such as prohibiting contact, removing the respondent from the home, granting child custody, and requiring restitution.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pptx, pdf, or txt
    84 views15 pages

    Anti-Violence Against Women and Their Children Act of

    Uploaded by

    sam cadley
    The document defines violence against women and their children under Philippine law. It describes four types of violence: physical, sexual, psychological, and economic. It then lists specific acts that constitute violence, such as rape, sexual harassment, intimidation, and controlling a woman's financial resources. The law created protection orders to prevent further violence, including barangay, temporary, and permanent protection orders. Finally, it outlines various forms of relief that courts can order, such as prohibiting contact, removing the respondent from the home, granting child custody, and requiring restitution.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pptx, pdf, or txt
    You are on page 1of 15

    E N C E A G A I N S T

    AN T I - V I OL
    A N D T H E I R
    WOMEN
    C T O F 2 00 4
    CHILDREN A R.A. 9262
    VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND THEIR
    CHILDREN
    Any act or a series of acts committed by any person against
    1. a woman who is:
    his wife
     former wife,
     or against a woman with whom the person has or had a sexual or
    dating relationship,
    or with whom he has a common child,
    2. against her child whether legitimate or illegitimate,
    within or without the family abode
    which result in or is likely to result in physical, sexual,
    psychological harm or suffering, or economic abuse
    including threats of such acts, battery, assault, coercion,
    harassment or arbitrary deprivation of liberty.
    A. PHYSICAL VIOLENCE
    B. SEXUAL VIOLENCE
    Is sexual in nature, committed against a woman or her child
    • A) rape, sexual harassment, acts of lasciviousness, treating a woman or her child as a sex
    object, making demeaning and sexually suggestive remarks, physically attacking the sexual
    parts of the victim's body, forcing her/him to watch obscene publications and indecent shows or
    forcing the woman or her child to do indecent acts and/or make films thereof, forcing the wife
    and mistress/lover to live in the conjugal home or sleep together in the same room with the
    abuser;
    • B) acts causing or attempting to cause the victim to engage in any sexual activity by force,
    threat of force, physical or other harm or threat of physical or other harm or coercion;
    • C) prostituting the woman or child.
    C. PSYCHOLOGICAL VIOLENCE
    Acts or omissions causing or likely to cause mental or emotional
    suffering of the victim such as but not limited to intimidation, harassment,
    stalking, damage to property, public ridicule or humiliation, repeated
    verbal abuse and mental infidelity
    Causing or allowing the victim to witness the physical, sexual or
    psychological abuse of a member of the family to which the victim
    belongs, or to witness pornography in any form or to witness abusive
    injury to pets or to unlawful or unwanted deprivation of the right to
    custody and/or visitation of common children
    D. ECONOMIC ABUSE
    Acts that make or attempt to make a woman financially dependent:
    1. Withdrawal of financial support or preventing the victim from engaging in any legitimate
    profession, occupation, business or activity, except in cases wherein the other spouse/partner
    objects on valid, serious and moral grounds as defined in article 73 of the family code;
    2. Deprivation or threat of deprivation of financial resources and the right to the use and
    enjoyment of the conjugal, community or property owned in common;
    3. Destroying household property;
    4. Controlling the victims' own money or properties or solely controlling the conjugal money or
    properties.
    ACTS OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND
    THEIR CHILDREN

    (A) causing physical harm to the woman or her child;


    (B) threatening to cause the woman or her child physical harm;
    (C) attempting to cause the woman or her child physical harm;
    (D) placing the woman or her child in fear of imminent physical harm
    (E) attempting to compel or compelling the woman or her child to engage in conduct which the woman or
    Her child has the right to desist from or desist from conduct which the woman or her child has the right to
    engage in, or attempting to restrict or restricting the woman's or her child's freedom of movement or conduct
    by force or threat of force, physical or other harm or threat of physical or other harm, or intimidation directed
    against the woman or child. This shall include, but not limited to, the following acts committed with the
    purpose or effect of controlling or restricting the woman's or her child's movement or conduct:
    (1) threatening to deprive or actually depriving the woman or her child of custody to her/his family;
    (2) depriving or threatening to deprive the woman or her children of financial support legally due her or
    her family, or deliberately providing the woman's children insufficient financial support;
    (3) depriving or threatening to deprive the woman or her child of a legal right;
    (4) preventing the woman in engaging in any legitimate profession, occupation, business or activity or
    controlling the victim's own mon4ey or properties, or solely controlling the conjugal or common money,
    or properties;
    (F) inflicting or threatening to inflict physical harm on oneself for the purpose of controlling her
    actions or decisions;
    (G) causing or attempting to cause the woman or her child to engage in any sexual activity which
    does not constitute rape, by force or threat of force, physical harm, or through intimidation directed
    against the woman or her child or her/his immediate family;
    (H) engaging in purposeful, knowing, or reckless conduct, personally or through another, that
    alarms or causes substantial emotional or psychological distress to the woman or her child. This
    shall include, but not be limited to, the following acts:
    (1) stalking or following the woman or her child in public or private places;
    (2) peering in the window or lingering outside the residence of the woman or her child;
    (3) entering or remaining in the dwelling or on the property of the woman or her child against
    her/his will;
    (4) destroying the property and personal belongings or inflicting harm to animals or pets of
    the woman or her child; and
    (5) engaging in any form of harassment or violence;
    (I) causing mental or emotional anguish, public ridicule or humiliation to the woman or her
    child, including, but not limited to, repeated verbal and emotional abuse, and denial of
    financial support or custody of minor children of access to the woman's child/children.
    PROTECTION ORDERS
    oFor the purpose of preventing further acts of violence against a woman or her child
    oGranting other necessary relief. The relief granted under a protection order serve the
    purpose of safeguarding the victim from further harm, minimizing any disruption in the
    victim's daily life, and facilitating the opportunity and ability of the victim to independently
    regain control over her life.

    Barangay protection order (bpo) = 15 DAYS


     temporary protection order (tpo) = 30 DAYS
     permanent protection order (ppo)
    RELIEFS
    (A) prohibition of the respondent from threatening to commit or committing, personally or
    through another, any of the acts mentioned in section 5 of this act;
    (B) prohibition of the respondent from harassing, annoying, telephoning, contacting or
    otherwise communicating with the petitioner, directly or indirectly;
    (C) removal and exclusion of the respondent from the residence of the petitioner,
    regardless of ownership of the residence, either temporarily for the purpose of protecting
    the petitioner, or permanently where no property rights are violated, and if respondent must
    remove personal effects from the residence, the court shall direct a law enforcement agent
    to accompany the respondent has gathered his things and escort respondent from the
    residence;
    (D) directing the respondent to stay away from petitioner and designated family or household member at a
    distance specified by the court, and to stay away from the residence, school, place of employment, or any
    specified place frequented by the petitioner and any designated family or household member;
    (E) directing lawful possession and use by petitioner of an automobile and other essential personal effects,
    regardless of ownership, and directing the appropriate law enforcement officer to accompany the petitioner to
    the residence of the parties to ensure that the petitioner is safely restored to the possession of the automobile
    and other essential personal effects, or to supervise the petitioner's or respondent's removal of personal
    belongings;
    (F) granting a temporary or permanent custody of a child/children to the petitioner;
    (G) directing the respondent to provide support to the woman and/or her child if entitled to legal support.
    Notwithstanding other laws to the contrary, the court shall order an appropriate percentage of the income or
    salary of the respondent to be withheld regularly by the respondent's employer for the same to be
    automatically remitted directly to the woman. Failure to remit and/or withhold or any delay in the remittance of
    support to the woman and/or her child without justifiable cause shall render the respondent or his employer
    liable for indirect contempt of court;
    (H) prohibition of the respondent from any use or possession of any firearm or deadly
    weapon and order him to surrender the same to the court for appropriate disposition by the
    court, including revocation of license and disqualification to apply for any license to use or
    possess a firearm. If the offender is a law enforcement agent, the court shall order the
    offender to surrender his firearm and shall direct the appropriate authority to investigate on
    the offender and take appropriate action on matter;
    (I) restitution for actual damages caused by the violence inflicted, including, but not limited
    to, property damage, medical expenses, childcare expenses and loss of income;
    (J) directing the DSWD or any appropriate agency to provide petitioner may need; and
    (K) provision of such other forms of relief as the court deems necessary to protect and
    provide for the safety of the petitioner and any designated family or household member,
    provided petitioner and any designated family or household member consents to such
    relief.

    You might also like