While the Marcos government pirouettes like a headless chicken scooting around in search of a rational response to China’s intrusive bullying in the SCS, it is commendable to note, at this time, the issuance of DILG MC 2023-104 urging all barangays to set up their own VAW desks to address the increa
SILG Benhur Abalos hit the nail on the head as he challenged village chairpersons to provide support for the establishment and sustained operations of a VAW desk by designating a Sangguniang barangay kagawad as VAW desk officer who is trained in handling gender sensitive cases.
This is a type of empowerment the barangay councils should adequately employ before the “small fire becomes a conflagration”. Abalos’ idea should have been introduced long ago by his predecessors especially during the height of the shabu proliferation in the big cities and crowded communities.Either one of former Presidents Joseph Estrada, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and Rodrigo Roa Duterte was responsbile for making the promise to remove BRP Sierra Madre from the disputed Ayungin Shoal.
Whereupon, spokespersons for ex-PJEE stood up to deny that there never was a promise made by the former San Juan City Mayor and GMA herself declared she didn’t make any during her term.
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