During the 1942-45 Japanese occupation of the Philippines and other parts of Asia, the Japanese Army established a system of sexual slavery. In the Philippines, more than 1000 women, some of them under-age, were imprisoned as sexual slavery hostages.
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.
Read full and original article at https://www.ecchr.eu/en/case/philippines-sexual-slavery-during-second-world-war/
