Nagmartsa sa Mendiola Bridge sa tapat ng Malakanyang ang mga lolang tinaguriang “comfort women” na biktima ng pandarahas noong panahon ng Ikalawang Pandaigdigang Digmaan dahil sa kawalan umano ng aksiyon ng administrasyong Aquino sa paghangad nila ng hustisya sa gobyernong Hapon. (Macky Macaspac)
Isinusulong ngayon sa Kamara ang panukalang naglalayong isama sa kurikulum sa mga paaralan ang pag-aaral sa buhay at sakripisyo ng comfort women na biktima ng pang-aabuso ng mga sundalong Hapon noong Ikalawang Digmaang Pandaigdig.
Barely able to walk in their advanced age, Filipino comfort women of Lila Pilipina braved the sun to picket the Japanese Embassy and Mendiola in Manila in protest of the P8.8 Million, one-day trip of President Aquino to Japan. The lolas of Lila Pilipina condemned Aquino’s support for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s proposal to change […]
Seventy or so years have passed since World War II, but Filipino comfort women still seek justice for the atrocities committed to them by Japanese imperial soldiers. In time for Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s official visit to Malacanang, they picketed nearby Mendiola Bridge, demanding the justice that had been denied of them. At the […]
Gabriela Women’s Party representatives called on the Department of Foreign Affairs to declare Osaka, Japan Mayor Toru Hashimoto as persona non grata for rationalizing World War II sex slaves as “necessary” during wartime. Reps. Emmi de Jesus and Luz Ilagan expressed their call for the Aquino government to “rush their defense amid such insulting, abusive […]
