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Forum Summaries

Ten summaries of mutlimedia forum discussions, held in major cities in the Philippines, on several health and religious issues that affect women's well being.

Each booklet features forum topic overview, panelists' speeches, and open forum discussion documentation.

Also available in CDROM (requires Adobe Reader) format for only PhP 370.

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CONDOMS & RELIGION
Women, Safe Sex and Aids

"Should prevention of AIDS transmission through sexual contact only consist of abstinence and being mutually faithful or should it include the promotion of condoms, safe sex and sexual education?"

DIVORCE & FAMILY VIOLENCE
"...'til death do us part?"

"Violence against women (VAW) is a growing public health concern and the most pervasive human rights violation in the world today...Yet the fact remains that we live in a country whose laws set uniform boundaries regarding the choices a women, caught in family, violence can have."

LESBIANISM & RELIGION
Women Loving Women

"Negative attitudes towards lesbians and gays, bisexuals, transgenders [or] queer are deeply rooted with religion, psychology, medical, legal, and political institutions. A lesbians's life is very difficult because there is discrimination in almost all institutions."