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President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. said he has ordered relevant government agencies to look into how the Philippines could appropriately address the concerns of Malaya Lolas, an organization composed of former "comfort women" or victims of sexual slavery by the Japanese imperial army...

The government vowed to study a United Nations (UN) panel report that found the Philippines’ failure to compensate the comfort women. The Presidential Communications Office (PCO) said this after the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) reported that the Philippines...