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PROTECTION
ORDER
ANTI VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND
CHILDREN
Republic Act No. 9262
What is sexual
relations?
Sexual relations refer to a single sexual act
which may or may not result in the bearing of a
common child.
Example: A prostituted woman can avail of the
remedies under the law if she is being harassed
or abused or publicly humiliated by a man with
whom she had a single sexual contact.
Economic abuse:
a) not giving adequate financial support
to the wife and/or minor children,
b) Controlling the conjugal business or
conjugal or community property or the
womans own money.
Psychological
violence:
a) Marital infidelity
b) Repeated verbal abuse
c) Public humiliation
d) Threatening the woman that she will lose
her child
e) Stalking or following the woman in her
work-place, school or any public or private
place without justification
Physical abuse:
Sexual violence:
a) Causing or attempting to make the
woman or her child to perform sexual acts
(that do not constitute Rape) by use of force,
threats, intimidation directed against the
woman, her child, or her immediate family
b) Prostituting the woman or her child.
What is a Protection
Order?
A Protection Order is an order issued
under the Act for the purpose of
preventing further acts of violence
against a woman or her child specified
in Section 7of the IRR and granting
other necessary relief.
No.
Secs.
410-413
of
the
Local
No.
Is a medical certificate
required in the issuance of
Barangay Protection Order?
No.
Yes.
immediately/ASAP.