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GABRIELA
A nationwide alliance of more than 200 women’s organizations, Gabriela supports groups of Pinays and non-Pinays
across the globe. Active in national Filipino politics through the GABRIELA Women’s Party, leaders in justice for migrant
and domestic workers, and grassroots activists throughout the Philippines addressing issues of militarization, climate
change, gender disparity and corruption, the alliance is dedicated to the mission of achieving women’s freedom and true
democracy. For five years GABRIELA has been a leader in One Billion Rising, using the tools and platform year-round to
amplify their calls demanding an end to poverty and to the neoliberal policies that keep poverty and economic violence
and exploitation in place; demanding an end to militarization, mining, sex and human trafficking, electronic violence,
and labor export policies that force 600 Filipinos a day (80% of whom are women) to work abroad as domestic workers,
nannies, caregivers; demanding an end to foreign intervention of the US and the Visiting Forces Agreement; demanding
an end to contractualization of workers and demanding higher wages and work benefits; demanding an end to
commercialization of education, of privatization of social services, of home demolitions and plunder of our environment.