Almost 80 years ago, Filipino women in the Central Luzon region were rounded up, brought to an old house called 'Bahay na Pula' or Red House in San Ildefonso town, Pampanga province, where they were detained for weeks. Until they were released, says a report by the United Nations' Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (Cedaw), the women, some in their teens, were 'repeatedly subjected to rape, other forms of sexual violence, torture, and inhumane detention conditions.' Their experiences as 'comfort women,' the Japanese euphemism for prostitutes which has come to be applied to victims of institutionalized sexual violence against women in countries under Japanese control during World War II, would come to haunt the women for the rest of their lives.

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