It is also called Middle Stone Age, ancient cultural stage that existed between the Paleolithic (Old Stone Age), with its chipped stone tools.

Worldwide, more than 700 million women alive today were married as children 18 years of age). Of those women, more than 1 in 3 – or some 250 million- were married before 15. Child brides are often unable to effectively negotiate safe sex, leaving them vulnerable to early pregnancy as well as sexuality transmitted infections including HIV.

Humanity has evolved from its most animal instincts motivated simply by its will to survive, procreate, and gather to what has become now a complex web of actors that are interdependent and reliant on their set laws and norms to justify their own existence.

The DSWD has also taken steps in ensuring that its projects create impact on the community while keeping in mind the sustainability of its basic services, such s pension support, adoption, feeling programs, and transient housing.

Article 3: Right to Equality 

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act toward one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

DOH was one of the biggest issues in Congress and in the public forum during the deliberation of the Reproductive Health (RH) Bill which was introduced in the floor of Congress in 1988.

The community traverses the public and private sectors as it is affected by any relation shift in structures, policies, and institutions. The term “participatory development” first emerged in mainstream academic discussion with the release in 1983 of the book Rural Development: Putting the Last First by Robert Chambers.

There are still thousands of women subjected daily to abuse, maltreatment, and women’s rights deprivation, among other kinds of violence. 

The Magna Carta (The Great Charter) which specified laws, rights, and policies that were aimed at balancing the power of the king and protecting citizens from abuses.

To recruit, transport, transfer, harbor, provide, or receive persons by any means, including those done under the pretext of domestic or overseas employment or training or apprenticeship, for the purpose of prostitution, pornography, sexual exploitation, forced labor, slavery, involuntarily servitude, or debt bondage.