Assessing the CEDAW Committee’s determination of continuing gender-based discrimination against wartime sexual slavery survivors in the Philippines

Ruby Rosselle L. Tugade, Faculty of Law , University of New South Wales Sydney, College of Law, University of the Philippines, Quezon City

International Journal of Discrimination and the Law

Published online on September 15, 2025

Abstract

International Journal of Discrimination and the Law, Volume 26, Issue 2, Page 384-394, June 2026.
This case note examines the Views of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women inAlonzoet al.v.The Philippines, the first international recognition of the rights of Filipino women survivors of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery. ...