In a ruling that carries far-reaching implications, the Supreme Court recently dismissed petitions filed by opposition senators and other groups questioning the legality of President Duterte’s move to withdraw the Philippines as a state party to the Rome Statute, the multilateral treaty which created the International Criminal Court (ICC). Sen. Francis Pangilinan and other senators argued the President should have sought the concurrence of the Senate prior to his move to quit the ICC. The President
There is now solid evidence that the adverse impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have fallen more heavily on women. In a recent policy brief, the International Labour Organization reported that women’s jobs worldwide fell by 4.2 percent as a result of the pandemic, as against 3 percent for men. It also projects that “only 43.2 percent of the world’s working-age women will be employed in 2021, compared to 68.6 percent of working-age men… (and) in 2021 women will be 25.4 percentage points less likely to be in employment than men.” There are at least four ways that the adverse impacts of
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