The House of Representatives on Monday unanimously permitted a invoice criminalizing on-line or digital violence in opposition to girls and kids (E-VAWC) on third and closing studying.
With 272 sure votes, the House permitted House Bill 8009 which expands the protection of the 2004 VAWC legislation by defining psychological violence as acts or omissions that could be dedicated by bodily, verbal, emotional, digital or data and communications expertise (ICT) units, or different means inflicting or more likely to trigger psychological or emotional struggling of a lady and/or her kids equivalent to intimidation, harassment, stalking, injury to property, public ridicule or humiliation, verbal abuse, and marital infidelity.
The invoice additionally gives that acts that may represent on-line violence embrace unauthorized recording and distribution of pictures, movies, and different digital supplies exhibiting girls and kids’s non-public components or these portraying sexual conduct, sex-related expressions and gestures, or any purported violent and errant habits.
The invoice additionally covers acts utilizing ICT supplies to stalk, harass, threaten, and unfold false details about girls and kids, or to create pretend social media accounts with the intent to trigger hurt.
“This proposed law is our answer to rising cases of internet-enabled violence and abuse against women and children. I hope that the bill, when enacted, would stop these acts,” Speaker Martin Romualdez of Leyte stated in a press release after its passage.
The Speaker stated developments in data and communications expertise (ICT) have given rise to sure crimes that aren’t sufficiently coated by present legal guidelines.
“We have to update and strengthen our laws,” Romualdez added.
The E-VAWC invoice additionally grants 20 days of paid depart of absence for victims of VAWC meant for therapeutic and restoration from the emotional, bodily, and psychological trauma they’ve skilled, along with different paid leaves granted by legislation and firm insurance policies.
“Malaking bagay ito upang mapangalagaan ang kapakanan ng mga biktima na siyang dumaan sa matinding trauma na siyang nakakaapekto sa kanyang araw-araw na gawain,” House Assistant Minority Leader Arlene Brosas, one of many authors of the measure, stated.
(This is an enormous assist to assist the victims who’ve been traumatized by their ordeal.) —NB, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
