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Empowering women through feminist counselling in the Philippines. (Service).

Arrows For Change,  December, 2001  by Baaco-Pascual, Salvacion

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Since 1989, the Women's Crisis Centre (WCC), a non-profit non-government organisation in the Philippines, has been providing holistic services to women survivors of gender-based violence. It started as a response to the needs of women survivors of military rape and sexualised torture during the Philippines' martial law years.

A group of former women political detainees banded together as an informal support group and were soon joined by other women political activists and survivors of gender-based violence. These like-minded women then took the risk of establishing the WCC to address ...

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