Economic, structural violence against women highlighted in International Working Women’s Day commemoration
“The Filipino people are suffering while the cronies and allies of Marcoses enrich themselves.”
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“The Filipino people are suffering while the cronies and allies of Marcoses enrich themselves.”
On International Working Women’s Day, Gabriela National Alliance of Women leads a program at Liwasang Bonifacio, followed by a march to Mendiola, to expose worsening conditions faced by women under Ferdinand Marcos Jr. regime.
Progressive groups mount a women-led action in time for the International Women’s Day celebration in Manila, Philippines. Women rights defenders and members of sectoral groups asserted their socio-economic rights in the midst the the worsening economic crisis. They also condemned the continuing attacks against women rights activists.
The delegation arrived in San Pablo after conducting a short program in nearby Santa Cruz, Laguna to have lunch when at least eight uniformed policemen and a police mobile approached the delegation and demanded to see their drivers’ licenses and registration.
Women showed their rage to Duterte in an effigy they called as “Mad Dog-ong.”
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