MONITORING COMPLIANCE TO THE MAGNA CARTA OF WOMEN programs on gender, resulting to the failure to address them. The LGBTIs also report experiencing discrimination from service providers when they file complaints of abuse. • The lack of livelihood and employment opportunities for LGBTIs (as they are often excluded from livelihood programs) has pushed some of them to engage in prostitution. • Their is a lack of legal mechanisms to protect joint properties of LGBTI couples. • There is lack of information and awareness on HIV/AIDS. YOUNG WOMEN AND TEENAGE MOTHERS The following issues of young women and teenage mothers were discussed in six regional FGDs: • Young women and teenagers have unplanned pregnancies because of lack of access to information and guidance. Fertility management, adolescent reproductive health, and family planning are not openly discussed in schools or in their homes. • There is lack of support services for teenage mothers to enable them to continue their studies while taking care of their child. • Young women who drop out of school are at risk of falling into drug addiction and prostitution. • Children are deterred from expressing their sexual orientation or gender iddentities at home or in shcool. • There is a need for youth sector representation 23 in development or government planning councils so that their voices and opinions are heard in formal decision-makng processes affecting their welfare. WOMEN AFFECTED BY DISASTERS, CALAMITIES, AND OTHER CRISIS SITUATIONS (SEC. 10) One of the provisions of the Magna Carta of Women monitored by the Commission through its Regional Offices is on women affected by disasters, calamities, and crisis. During the consultation on CEDAW, MCW, and RPRH, one of the questions pertained to issues relating to displacement and development aggression, and how these affect women’s access to justice in cases of violence and access to services, including reproductive health. Studies show that women’s vulnerability to genderbased discrimination and violence are heightened in times of disasters and displacement. This was clearly seen in major events like the Typhoons Yolanda (2013) and Pablo (2012) and the Zamboanga Siege (2013), as well in conflict areas where women and their families live under consant threat of armed violence. Based on the consultation reports, the specific issues of women in times of crisis, disasters, and calamities include: 1. PROTECTION AND SECURITY: Women are are usually burdened with the sole responsibility of taking care of their families, and securing their welfare especially when there are no proper evacuation centers. 2. INCREASED VULNERABILITY TO GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE: Evacuation centers where there are no separate spaces for women and girls are unsafe. Access to safe toilets