In response to the Statement of Appeal signed by 637 people, Erline C. Grafilo, Focal Person of GSC Gender and Development Office, urged the media to stop the display, printing, and broadcasting of violent, abusive and discriminatory remarks on men and women.
"May we request the terms used in any of your programs be reviewed and modified to make it more gender sensitive. And if in case your station publishes tabloids/displays billboards within the city or any of your staff is a contributor of articles, that language/terms use and any sexist, vulgar, insulting and violent words by any person that degrades another person or groups be omitted", she said in a letter forwarded to all media outlets in the city.
The Statement of Appeal "condemns the proliferation of sexually malicious and provocative materials in the print and broadcast media, including those advertisement materials displayed by some businesses that contained the same content."
Also attached with the letter is a copy of text message sent to the office of the City Mayor on March 2, which says, "Mayor, the MEDIA people are not excused from moral responsibility specifically in using obscene term like SPO10, matigas 24 oras, TARUGO, pagtatalik stories, maayo mobirada sa kama etc. These terms encourage scrupulous people to commit crimes. Why not use metaphor para dili paminawon."
Grafilo further enjoined the media to work together in achieving "Magandan Gensan" free from any exploitation and discrimination of women, men, and children.
General Santos City has adopted the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Agains Women (CEDAW) and Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) through the enactment of Ordinance No. 12 series of 2010 or the Gender Development Code.
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