“On the occasion of the 75-year commemoration of the invasion of the Mapanique district in the northern Philippines, ECCHR together with the Philippine Center for International Law (CenterLaw) submitted a communication to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) in November 2019. In the communication submitted on behalf of 28 members of the Malaya Lolas, an organization of affected women, ECCHR and CenterLaw argue that the Philippines has the failed in its obligations to provide access to justice and remedies for the women abused in sexual slavery.”
On 23 November 1944, Japanese troops invaded the district of Mapanique, Candaba in the Philippines. After torturing and killing many inhabitants, the soldiers forced the women and girls to march towards the “Bahay Na Pula” (Red House), the Japanese headquarters.
Read full and original article at https://www.ecchr.eu/en/event/the-long-road-to-justice-for-the-malaya-lolas/
