Section 3 - Educating and Partnering for CEDAW

CEDAW primers
The primer was taken from the 2006 planner. This was translated into seven
dialects and given away at CEDAW forums and exhibits, making CEDAW more
accessible even to non-English readers.
OWN! zine (Dumpling Press)
Claire Villacorta and Paolo Cruz of Dumpling
Press pose by sample pages from the OWN!
zine
Dubbed as the CEDAW zine, OWN!
took its name from the intergenerational
blog hosted by WFS. It was a voluntary
effort on the part of indie publishers
Claire Villacorta and Paolo Cruz. The
co-authored pieces touched on CEDAW
in the era of “girl power”, and Philippine
feminism. There was also a section
dedicated to female illustrators and
graphic artists with their interpretations
of CEDAW articles like VAW, Labor
and Employment, Women in Politics
and Government, and Education. With
Cruz’s active participation in this do-ityourself
printed matter, it’s proof that guys, too, can get into CEDAW. 400 copies
found their way in schools around the country, namely UP Baguio, University of
San Carlos (Cebu), UP Iloilo, Ateneo de Naga, Bicol University, Mindanao State
University, and UPV - Tacloban. Some copies were also made available through
CEDAW channels as well as a defunct bookstore in Quezon City.
CEDAW button: “Make Women’s Rights Real”
It may come off as flowery, but this
3-inch button is anything but dainty.
To approximate a gathering of women
is a clever lesson in creative design, by
way of a paper doll-like assemblage
of women forming shapes of flowers.
The production cost for the buttons
was solicited from Management
Association of the Philippines (MAP).
Their chairperson at the time, Evelyn
Singson, was MAP’s first woman Chair.
She was also a guest speaker at the
CEDAW forum.
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