Know your rights
A right you cannot name is difficult to use. These summaries explain who each law protects, what it prohibits, where to go, and the myth that most often gets in the way.
Read this first
These are educational summaries, not legal advice. Provisions are paraphrased; the official text controls. Penalties, procedures, and agency rules can change, and a situation may involve more than one law. For a real case, consult a lawyer, the Public Attorney's Office, your school's legal office, or the agencies linked here.
The six laws
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Every law here answers a version of the same question: who is covered, and in what relationship or place? R.A. 9262 depends on a family or dating relationship. R.A. 7877 depends on work, school, or training. R.A. 11313 reaches public space and the internet. Reading the scope first prevents you from using the wrong remedy.
Process
A right becomes useful when you know the first step: the barangay VAWC desk, the school's Committee on Decorum and Investigation, the police Women and Children Protection Desk, the PNP Anti-Cybercrime Group, or the Commission on Human Rights. Preserve evidence, write down dates, and keep a copy of every complaint.
Limit
Law is necessary and incomplete. It can punish, protect, and order a remedy, but it cannot by itself change a classroom culture, a family expectation, or a joke that everyone laughs at. That is why this site pairs the law with the slower work of norms, language, and bystander action. A legal victory is not the same as a safe campus.
Which law applies?
Read each fictional situation, choose the law that is most relevant, then read the explanation. More than one law can apply; this activity is about the first door to knock on, not a final legal conclusion.