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HEARING FOR ANTI-DISCRIMINATION BILL: Senate Committee on Women, Children, Family Relations and Gender Equality Chairperson and Senator Risa Hontiveros discusses the importance of passing a law that will protect people from sexual and gender-based discrimination and inequality, during a committee hearing on the proposed Anti-Discrimination Bill (SBN 935) on Wednesday, August 31, 2016. Hontiveros said that a law that would prohibit discrimination for SOGIE (or sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression) was long overdue. “Cases of discrimination and inequality have remained invisible to our national policies and reduced to insignificance by homophobia and stigma,” she said. Also in photo is Senator Nancy Binay. (PRIB Photo by Cesar Tomambo/ 31 August 2016)