Women’s wrestling saw a meteoric rise in the Southeast Asian region this past year, and the Philippines has been at its forefront. Though it remains to be a male-dominated industry, promotions such as ...

Cecilia Oebanda-Pacis founded Voice of the Free in 1991 to help children kidnapped and forced into sex work. Her work is more ...

MANILA Reuters) - As night falls in Manila, the Philippine capital, few of the 700 families living in the sprawling portside shanty town known as Market 3 dare to venture out of their homes. The crime ...

When famed Feminist Carrie Chapman Catt saw that the fight for woman suffrage in the U. S. was about to be won. she journeyed to the Philippine Islands in 1913 and publicly proposed suffrage for her ...

Thirteen pregnant Philippine women accused of illegally acting as surrogate mothers in Cambodia after being recruited online may face prison terms after they give birth, a senior Interior Ministry ...

MANILA, Philippines — Former followers of an arrested Filipino televangelist confronted him in a Senate hearing Wednesday, accusing him of repeatedly abusing them sexually by portraying the assaults ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- An 86-year old disabled East Bay woman has been stuck in the Philippines, trying to get home to her son since early Dec. but can't fly due to an airline policy. Her son came to ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- An 86-year old disabled Northern California woman has been stuck in the Philippines, trying to get home to her son since early Dec. but can't fly due to an airline policy. Her son ...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte appeared to pour cold water on his daughter’s political ambitions this week when he suggested that women are ill-suited for the presidency, the latest in a string ...

Group leader Jane Waithageni Kimaru, 60 years old, strikes a punching bag to show women how to fight off a potential rapist and escape, during a Taekwondo self-defense class for women in the Korogocho ...

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