representatives, highlight the cycle of marginalization that IP women are being subjected to. Violence Against Women In case of violence, the National Inquiry 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 public hearing and the submissions from the PDRC highlight the prevalence of gender based violence against deaf women in 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 provided accounts of the violence they experienced at the hands of intimate partners, from their own neighbors, and from the State in cases of demolition. Their case highlights not only the lack of access to remedies for VAW inside the family but also the difficulty of accessing remedies in cases where the perpetrators are State actors – those who demolish their shanties and leave trails of abuses. An individual submission from the informal settlers recount how they were tear gassed during demolition and how State hospitals dismissed them when they sought medical care. For LBTs, complaints have been raised on the insensitivity and/or ignorance of duty bearers in responding to violence experienced by LBTs. Protocols addressing stigma and discrimination against LBTs are not in place and as stressed in the submission of 29