Igorota articles from September 2002

Igorota archives from September 2002

Editor's note.
September 1, 2002... She can be your sister. Or your daughter. A mother, an aunt, a friend or a mere acquaintance. She can be the lady across your house. Or the woman you work with in the fields, in the office, in the streets. You may see her everyday and yet...

Errata.(Correction Notice)
September 1, 2002... In the article "Cordillera Green Network (CGN):Towards a Proactive Advocacy" in IGOROTA's last issue we had mistakenly put the author's name as "Josephine" Kapuno, when in fact her name is "Joselyn" Kapuno. She is also not the CGN's Executive...

Uyammi: a life. (Health and Culture).
September 1, 2002... Uyammi lives in a remote village of Tinoc, Ifugao. When she was young, Catholic missionaries introduced reading and writing in her barangay. Her parents did not allow her to attend that school because they believed that girls who are educated...

What are reproductive rights?
September 1, 2002... Understanding our reproductive rights begins with an understanding of the concept of reproductive health. Reproductive health is defined as the state of physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity,...

Sex Ed and the city: how do we score with young adults? (Cover Story: Reproductive Health).
September 1, 2002... Fifteen young men sit huddled in a circle in the student center. The youngest among them is 12 years old, while the oldest is 16. It is a bright, sunny Friday and a certain restlessness is rippling through these boys. The facilitator...

Advocating reproductive rights. (Cover Story: Reproductive Health).
September 1, 2002... Advocacy is a set of targeted actions directed at decision-makers in support of a specific policy issue. When developing an advocacy strategy for reproductive rights, you need an accurate analysis of the existing situation--its causes,...

Adolescent health. (Cover Story: Reproductive Health).
September 1, 2002... I believe that at some point in our lives, someone or something, touches us and changes our lives forever. My experiences in development work and my work now have given, me such opportunities. It happened tome again in Bokod through the...

Call for the ratification of the Optional Protocol. (Cover Story: Reproductive Health).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... The Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women is a 21-article document adopted by the General Assembly on October 6, 1999. It entered into force on December 22, 2000. The State...

Filipino women and AIDS. (Cover Story: Reproductive Health).
September 1, 2002... She did not particularly stand out in the crowd of women gathered to discuss women's issues. If anything, she tried as much as she could to blend in, to be inconspicuous. She was about my age. She was petite, pretty, wise beyond her years. She...

The naked truth about AIDS: GOs and NGOs fight to keep AIDS from spreading. (Cover Story: Reproductive Health).
September 1, 2002... The Philippines has only 1,676 HIV-AIDS (Human Immune-Deficiency Virus and the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) cases, a very low number if compared to other countries, a fact that has, baffled other countries and has led to speculation...

Every woman bestfriend...pap smear. (Health and Technology).
September 1, 2002... Elena Romero, 47, remembers the time when she first realized something was wrong. Last year, during her menstrual periods, she began experiencing painful urination and lower hack and abdomen pains. She suspected that it had something to do...

Mad about breast implants.
September 1, 2002... Raisins Prunes. Kagat ng lamok. Maliit na hinaharap. These are just a few of the words and phrases meant to demean small-breasted or flat-chested Filipino women. Men, and occasionally women, can entertain themselves for hours just churning...

Women and media. (Media).
September 1, 2002... While women are radically doing a paradigm shift from the claws of machopatriarchalism that we have inherited from our colonial past, it is at this point that, we should know that globalization is coercing women to fall prey to a borderless...

Widow of the living. (First Person).
September 1, 2002... Balo ti nabiag. This Ilokano phrase refers to a woman who is separated from her husband. Yes, I am a balo ti nabiag. And I'm glad I am. I was married at 19, had my first child at 21, and two more kids came thereafter. I worked at a...

Sense and sensibility. (First Person).
September 1, 2002... In 1989, I was elected member of the Municipal Council. I was the first woman Kagawad in our town. This was the highest achievement I experienced as a woman. I finished grade VI in a small town in Ifugao in 1959. I was 12 years old when my...

Another single woman at large.
September 1, 2002... I am still single. I am almost 30. And I am not bothered. In fact, I am happy being single. And, I feel complete. This surprises a lot of people. They think that it is bad to remain single. Well, let me assure you that...

16 Days to end gender Violence.
September 1, 2002... "A 32-year old high school teacher in Bataan, Lea has three children by her husband, Gerry, a 23-year old high school drop-out, jobless and a drug user. Upon the prodding of her sister, Lea went to an NOC-run clinic for a tubal ligation. During...

Queer and present danger: gay rights in the Philippines.
September 1, 2002... July 2002. It was a rain-filled, cold Sunday afternoon. Up at an obscure, inconspicuous little bar, a handful of men and women, gathered to celebrate Pride Month. They were young and old, students, workers, farmers, professionals, factory...

The Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women. (Conventions).
September 1, 2002... "To embody the principles of the equality of men and women in their national constitutions." "To ensure the full development and advancement of women." Do these ideas sound familiar? If they are, that's because the statements form...