Philippine Commission on Women(PCW)

July 26, 2022 Dear Jose Rio Iwasaki, Greetings! We refer to your letter dated July 19, 2022 about your request under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch, for Extra-Marital Infidelity. Your Request Extra-Marital Infidelity Response to Request We are sending you the latest data on reports involving extra-marital infidelity received by our office through the Inter-Agency Council on Violence Against Women and their Children (IACVAWC) Secretariat. Kindly note that the data cover the years 2019 to 2021 because our monitoring on this was only systematized in 2019. Kindly see attached file in this reply for the requested data. Please do take note that this does not include reports of infidelity by live-in partners. As an additional data source, please also check the webpage of the Philippine Statistics Authority where the Annual Statistical Fact Sheets on Women and Men in the Philippines, which among others, contain VAW data, has been proactively disclosed: https://psa.gov.ph/gender-stat/wmf. Your right to request a review If you are unhappy with this response to your FOI request, you may ask us to carry out an internal review of the response by writing to Atty. Kristine Rosary Yuzon-Chaves/Executive Director/[email protected]. Your review request should explain why you are dissatisfied with this response, and should be made within 15 calendar days from the date when you received this letter. We will complete the review and tell you the result within 30 calendar days from the date when we receive your review request. If you are not satisfied with the result of the review, you then have the right to appeal to the Office of the President under Administrative Order No. 22 (s. 2011). Thank you. Respectfully, Cecile Gutierrez FOI Decision Maker