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SAFER STREETS FOR GAYS, LESBIANS: Senator Risa Hontiveros, chair of the Senate Committee on Women, Children, Family Relations and Gender Equality, explains to reporters Senate Bill No. 1326 or the "Safe Streets and Public Spaces Act of 2017," during a press briefing, Tuesday morning, February 14, 2017. Hontiveros said the bill seeks to protect women and members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) community from harassment in the streets and other public spaces. She cited a Social Weather Station (SWS) report which showed that almost 88 percent of Filipina women aged 18-24 years "have experienced different forms of sexual harassment in the streets." (PRIB Photo by Cesar Tomambo/14 February 2017)