penalizing home births as being discriminatory to IP women. During the course of the fact finding and public hearing, the Commission has counted at the minimum twelve (12)ordinances all over the country which penalize home births. Lack of access to RH services and facilities and Denial of RH services Accessibility of RH services and information has been highlighted throughout the fact finding and public hearings particularly with women with disabilities, Moro and Indigenous Women and women in GIDA. In the NCR and Cagayan de Oro-Bukidnon cluster, the lack of accessibility of government health centers and facilities for women with disabilities have been raised. Submissions and sworn testimonies of PWDS complain of the seeming invisibility of the needs of PWDs, the absence of facilities like examination tables, the absence of interpreters in police stations and in courts for PWD victim-survivor of violence against women, and the absence of interpreters as well in health centers and government health facilities. PWDs complain of not being informed of the processes affecting them and of the disregard for their decision because of their disability. A submission also recounted the denial of health services on the basis of her disability, another, the denial of Philhealth benefits on account of chronic illness, clear accounts of discrimination which compounded by the women’s already marginalized status. Violence Against Women In case of violence, the Fact Finding and Public Hearing has shown that many women, particularly those from the marginalized sector suffer and are vulnerable from violence at various levels: in the family, in the community, and in the hands of institutions. In several cases, while information is available on the remedies in cases of VAW, women are faced with issues of access, lack of sensitivity of the duty bearers and the lack of understanding of the multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination experienced by women from the marginalized sector. In the NCR and in the submissions from the PDRC highlights the prevalence of gender based violence against deaf women and the hands of family members, neighbors and members of the Community and the absence of interpreters in the government agencies tasked to respond to the violence. The absence of interpreters, the lack of access crucial to deaf women’s access to remedies, are by themselves institutional violence. Other forms of institutional and systemic violence include the ‘invisibility’ of the concerns of deaf women, women with mental disabilities and other disabilities in accessing remedies in cases of VAW. Also in NCR, women who are informal settlers in Tondo also provided an account of the violence they experience – at the hands of intimate partners, from their own neighbors, and form the State in cases of demolition. Their case highlights not only 9