R.A. No.

9262:
Violence against
Women and their
Children Act.
Presented
By:
Group 1 & 2
Features of R.A. 9262
• The Anti-Violence against
Women and their Children
(Anti-VAWC) Act of 2004 is a
landmark victory for women’s
rights advocates and all Filipino
women in general, providing for
specific provisions in order to
protect women from abuse,
discrimination and various
forms of violence in their
relationships.
The law defines violence against women and
children as:

• “any act or series of acts committed by any person against 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, or 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”.
• The law defines four kinds of violence:
- Physical
- Psychological
- Sexual
- Economic
 encompassing all types of abuses inflicted on women and their children

• The law classifies VAWC as a public crime

- this means that any form of violence inflicted on women and their children is a
crime not just on a single person but to society as a whole. This means, anyone
with personal knowledge (direct observation or experience) of the abuse,
violence or discrimination can file a complaint.
• The law seeks to address VAWC committed by intimate partners
like: husband or ex- husband, live-in partner or ex live-in partner,
boyfriend/girlfriend or ex, dating partner or ex-dating partner.

• The law states that protection orders can be issued against the
perpetrator
-once a complaint has been filed, the survivor or anyone with personal knowledge
of the violence can apply for a protection order to enforce distance between the
survivor and the perpetrator.

• The law mandates that community mechanisms be created and

enforced to respond to reported VAWC cases.
 Four Kinds of Violence under RA 9262
• Physical - acts that include bodily harm.
- Physical violence means the intentional use of
physical force or threat against another person.

• Psychological
- acts or omissions causing or likely to cause mental or
emotional suffering of the victim such as intimidation,
harassment, stalking, damage to property, public ridicule or
humiliation, repeated verbal abuse and marital infidelity,
making the person witness the physical, sexual, and/or
psychological abuse of a family member or abusive injury to
an animal companion, forcing a person to watch
pornography, deprivation of the right to custody or visitation
of common children.
• Sexual
- rape, sexual harassment, acts of lasciviousness, treating
a woman or her child as a sex object, making suggestive
remarks, prostituting a woman or her child, forcing a
woman and/or her child to watch or perform sexual acts,
forcing a woman to live in a conjugal home or sleep with the
perpetrator in the same room.

• Economic
- acts that make or attempt to make a woman financially
dependent; withdrawal of financial support, preventing the
woman from engaging in any legitimate profession, occupation,
business or activity except in cases wherein the spouse/partner
objects on valid, serious and moral grounds as defined in Art. 73
of the Family Code, deprivation or threat of deprivation of
financial resources and the right to use and enjoyment of
conjugal, community property owned in common; destroying
household property, controlling the woman’s own money or
property or solely controlling conjugal money or property.
Rights of Survivors of VAWC Cases:
The following are rights of survivors of VAWC in addition to their existing rights
under other existing laws

• To be treated with respect and dignity

• To avail of legal assistance from the Public Attorney’s Office and the
Department of Justice or any public legal assistance officer
• To be entitled to support services from the DSWD and the LGU
• To be entitled to all legal remedies and support as provided for under the
Family Code
• To be informed of their right to apply for a protection order
• To be ensured of the right to privacy, with violations punishable by
imprisonment and fine
Protection Orders
• Prohibition of the respondent (perpetrator)
 from threatening to commit or committing personally or through another,
any of the acts penalized by the Anti-VAWC law
 from harassing, annoying, telephoning, contacting or otherwise,
communicating with the petitioner (victim/survivor) directly or indirectly;
 from any use or possession of any firearm or deadly weapon and order to
surrender the same, including revocation of license and disqualification to
apply for any license to use or possess a firearm

• Removal and exclusion of the respondent from the

residence of the petitioner whether temporarily or
permanently.
• Directing:
 the respondent to stay away from the petitioner and any designated family or
household member at a distance specified by the court
 lawful possession and use by the petitioner of an automobile and other
personal effects regardless of ownership
 the respondent to provide support to the woman and/or her child if entitled to
legal support
 the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) or any
appropriate agency to provide temporary shelter and other social services that
the petitioner may need

• Granting temporary or permanent custody of a

child/children to the petitioner
• Restitution for actual damages caused by violence
inflicted including property damage, medical expenses,
and loss of income

• Provision of other forms of relief as may be necessary to

protect and provide for the safety of the petitioner
Duties of National and Local Government Office
 Given the features of the law, it also mandates the creation of an
Inter-Agency Council on VAWC, whose task is to create gender-
sensitive programs and projects according to their respective
Agency mandate.
The council consists of the following agencies:
• DSWD National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women.
• Civil Service Commission (CSC)
• Commission on Human Rights (CHR)
• Council for the Welfare of Children (CWC)
• Department of Justice (DOJ)
• Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG)
• Philippine National Police (PNP)
• Department of Health (DOH)
• Department of Education (DepEd)
• Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and;
• National Bureau of Investigation (NBI).
The respective local government units and the barangay council are also
mandated to: “eliminate violence against women and children” through:

 Education programs on RA 9262 and on violence against women and children,

why it exists, the rights and remedies of survivors and the duties of residents and
barangay officials

 Family violence prevention programs including peer counseling for men

 Development programs for women in the community

 Livelihood projects for victim/survivors

 Involvement of women in planning and implementation of all programs and

projects in the barangay
 Anti-VAWC desk officer-in-charge in the barangay who shall
coordinate a one-stop shop help desk (which ideally should be open
24 hrs)

 Gender sensitivity seminars for all barangay officials, health

workers, nutrition scholars, barangay workers, tanod or barangay
security officers

 System to document and report cases of VAWC

 Assistance programs for survivors

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R.A. No. 9262:
Violence against
Women and their
Children
Presented By:
Group 1 & 2
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R.A. No. 9262:
Violence against
Women and their
Children Act.
Presented
By:
Group 1 & 2