MANILA (PHILIPPINES)
UCA News
March 9, 2020
Activists take aim at Duterte during International Women’s Day marches
The exploitation of women and other abuses committed against them are “an affront to God,” according to an official of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP).
Every offense against the dignity of women is a sin, said Bishop Crispin Varquez of Borongan, chairman of the CBCP’s commission on women.
He cited sexual abuse, violence, prostitution and discrimination as being the main violations against the “intrinsic being” of women.
“Man and woman are equal in dignity,” Bishop Varquez stressed. “Their true relationship is to complement and complete each other.”
Meanwhile, hundreds of Filipino women set aside coronavirus fears and took to the streets of Manila and other cities for a rally to mark International Women’s Day on March 8.
During the rally protesters burned a large effigy of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, whom they accuse of being the country’s chief misogynist.
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