Feminism and the Women's Movement in the Philippines: Struggles, Advances, and Challenges As part of the progressive movement, Estrada-Claudio (2005) asserted that: It cannot be denied that the women's movement remained vibrant even during the worst years of the Philippine Left. GABRIELA and its affiliate organizations continued to grow even during the time when other mass organizations of the national democrats were shrinking. While old organizations were dying or experiencing their splits in the legal front, women were putting up new feminist organizations. The flourishing of independent organizations working on various issues pre-figured the social movements' paradigm of the anti­globalization movements and the world social forum processes. Feminists began decades ago to build coalitions on various issues from legal reform, health and reproductive rights, prostitution and trafficking, migration, etc. While not dismissing the parallel growth of other social movements like the environmental movement or that of indigenous peoples, the feminist movements' diversity and scope was and remains remarkably noticeable. 18