MANILA, Philippines — Saying that the government acknowledges the 'grave atrocities' endured by the Malaya Lolas (Free Grandmothers), the group of surviving comfort women who were treated as sex slaves by the Japanese military during the Second World War, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Saturday said he had ordered government agencies to 'appropriately address' their concerns. In a statement, the president said the government had been 'undertaking actions' after the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (Cedaw) called out the Philippines for failing to meet its obligations to the victims of sexual slavery during World War II.

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