Bill Type
Congress Name
Long Title
AN ACT REQUIRING WOMEN'S AND GIRLS' HUMAN RIGHTS AWARENESS PROGRAMS IN MEDIA, PROVIDING INCENTIVES THEREFOR AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Date filed
September 9, 2003
Scope
Legislative History
| House Bill/Resolution NO. House Bill No. 6394, 12th Congress of the Republic | |
| FULL TITLE : AN ACT REQUIRING WOMEN'S AND GIRLS' HUMAN RIGHTS AWARENESS PROGRAMS IN MEDIA, PROVIDING INCENTIVES THEREFOR AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES | |
| ABSTRACT : "Women's and Girls' Human Rights Awareness Program in Media Act of 2003". Broadcast media, specially television and radio programs, plays an important role in raising people's awareness. Therefore, it is their obligation to propagate good values through responsible programming. This bill proposes that a significant portion of air time of all the programming of the broadcast media be devoted to the promotion, protection and advocacy of women's and girls' rights, welfare, development and gender sensitivity and equality. | |
| PRINCIPAL AUTHOR/S : MAZA, LIZA | |
| DATE FILED : 2003-09-09 | |
| SIGNIFICANCE: NATIONAL | |
| CO-AUTHORS : | |
| 1. Beltran | 2. Ocampo |
| CO-AUTHORS (Journal Entries) : | |
| 1. Del Mar (027 ) | 2. Deduro (041 ) |
| ACTIONS TAKEN BY THE COMMITTEE ON RULES | |
| REFERRAL TO THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC INFORMATION ON 2003-10-06 | |
| SECONDARILY REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE(S) ON WOMEN |
Abstract
"Women's and Girls' Human Rights Awareness Program in Media Act of 2003". Broadcast media, specially television and radio programs, plays an important role in raising people's awareness. Therefore, it is their obligation to propagate good values through responsible programming. This bill proposes that a significant portion of air time of all the programming of the broadcast media be devoted to the promotion, protection and advocacy of women's and girls' rights, welfare, development and gender sensitivity and equality.
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