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Meet the new Filipino ‘comfort women' lead crusaders

Rose Carmelle Lacuata, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 31 09:46 PM

Sharon Cabusao-Silva and Atty. Virginia Lacsa Suarez are ensuring that the Filipino comfort women's stories won’t be forgotten. Read more »

Another Filipino 'comfort woman' dies

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 20 01:53 PM

Filipino 'comfort woman' Hilaria Bustamante has died, the group Lila Pilipina announced early Monday. Read more »

Gov't to 'study, submit' reply on comfort women issue

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 11 09:53 AM

The government will 'study and submit a written response' to the UN panel that found the Philippines in violation of its obligation to Filipino comfort women. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: January 31, 2023

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 31 11:54 PM

Here are the day's top stories in photos. Read more »

World War 2 'comfort women' call for justice

Francis R. Malasig, EPA-EFE
Posted at Jan 31 08:21 PM

Narcisa Claveria and Estelita Dy, survivors of the Japanese military's sexual slavery during World War II during a rally in front of the Japanese embassy in Manila Read more »

‘Comfort woman’ leading her group’s quest for justice dies

Ronron Calunsod, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Nov 25 03:52 PM

A Filipino elderly woman who claimed she was among those sexually abused during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines died on Tuesday, the same day her ordeal started 77 years ago when the foreign troops raided their community in Pampanga. Read more »

Women migrants reduced to sex slaves in Libya 'hell'

Caroline Nelly Perrot, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 20 12:24 PM

Most of the others who'd experienced Libya had also been forced into prostitution, raped or sexually assaulted, said Mongi Slim, head of the local Red Crescent. Read more »

S. Korea seeks 'amicable solution' to comfort women issue with Japan

Kyodo News
Updated as of Jan 24 10:56 AM

South Korea on Saturday reacted to a court order for Japan to compensate former "comfort women" over their treatment in Japanese military brothels by vowing to seek an "amicable solution" and "make every effort to continue constructive and future-oriented cooperation" with its neighbor. Read more »

Japan regrets new Korean "comfort women" statue set up in Berlin

Kyodo News
Posted at Sep 29 05:35 PM

Japan regrets the recent installation in Berlin of a statue of a girl symbolizing Korean women who were forced to work in Japanese wartime military brothels, its top government spokesman said Tuesday. Read more »