Highlighting what’s needed

Cheers to Reporter’s Notebook for highlighting something not normally in the press radar: the continued crimes against deaf women in the country and the need for  interpreters  in court cases involving the deaf.

Six to seven  out of every ten deaf Filipinas have experienced sexual abuse, the Reporter’s Notebook reported,  according to data from the independent research think tank Philippine Deaf Resource Center.

Given the high number of sex-related crimes against deaf women, the program highlighted why it is important that the courts should have  interpreters for deaf litigants and respondents.