STOP

VIOLENCE
AGAINST
WOMEN
AND CHILDREN

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Goals

  • Enhance feminist approaches for healing and recovery of women and children victims-survivors of violence against women and family violence
  • Develop woman-centered standards, monitoring tools and mechanisms for intervention and prevention services among key stakeholders
  • Strengthen partnership and critical engagements with key institutions (e.g. civil society, media, academe, church, etc.) in effectively addressing violence against women
  • Ensure sustainability of programs and services by establishing WCC as an acknowledged and well-recognized center of knowledge and expertise in feminist approaches to crisis intervention and by generating adequate financial and other resources

Women’s Crisis Center (WCC)

The Women’s Crisis Center is a non-stock, non-profit private institution in the Philippines with a firm commitment to end violence against women and to work towards a just and humane society. It is the first ever crisis center in the Philippines for women survivors of battering, rape, incest, sexual harassment, prostitution, and sex trafficking.

The Women’s Crisis Center is rooted in the resurgence of the women’s movement in the Philippines in the 80’s. Active organizing of women encouraged the discussion of women’s experiences of all forms of violence which otherwise would have remained private and unrecognized.

From there, a group of women deeply concerned with the violence that pervades women’s lives committed themselves to respond to the issue.

On February 19, 1989, the Women’s Crisis Center was formally established. It is the first and only crisis center in the Philippines which offers a comprehensive range of crisis intervention services for survivors of gender-based violence. It also introduced the radical concept of feminist counselling in the country.

This image shows a Women handling a baby in Women's Crisis Center, Manila, Philippines.

Our Vision:

The Women’s Crisis Center envisions a society that is just and violence-free where women have self-determination, enjoy equal rights and opportunities, and actualize their full human potential.

This image shows a two little girl wearing a smile in their face in Women's Crisis Center, Manila, Philippines.

Our Mission:

The Women’s Crisis Center is committed to use feminist perspectives in maintaining its catalytic role in the empowerment of women and in mobilizing communities towards the elimination of all forms of violence against women.