The Women’s Legal and Human Rights Bureau (WLB) is a feminist legal non-government organization composed of women’s rights activists and advocates. They are professionals in the various disciplines of the law and social science, social work and community development addressing women’s issues and concerns.
Founded in 1990, WLB’s main thrust is to engage in feminist legal advocacy and development work –pursuing policies and programs that uphold the rights and interests of Filipino women, conducting information- education communication campaigns to raise public awareness and actions on women’s issues, undertaking training and research with other women’s groups to build knowledge and capabilities for stronger campaigning and advocacy engagements on women’s rights, and promoting feminist lawyering to defend and advance women’s rights.
Our current challenge is to strategically expand our focus on women’s economic, social and cultural rights. WLB seeks to maximize gains won by women in such arenas as the Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women and other UN agencies and international organizations.
Founded in 1990
50 people in their team
With aims to achieve the goal of increasing women’s access to justice and demanding accountability from the State for violations of women’s human rights, HR and Pol-Ad adopts a range of strategies in rights-claiming and demanding state obligation and accountability in various platforms at the community, national, regional and international levels.
HR and Pol-Ad targets human rights mechanisms like the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), Beijing Platform of Action (BPfA), Universal Period Review (UPR), among others. At the regional level it critically engages the ASEAN through the human rights mechanisms such as the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) and the ASEAN Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the rights of Women and Children (ACWC), and the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC). In the national front, in concert with women’s movements, it seeks to institute legal reforms through legislative advocacy and transforming the legal and justice systems to make them more responsive to women’s realities.
