In Manila, thousands of women and women’s rights advocates led by Gabriela marched to commemorate the International Women’s Day.

Gabriela said that the International Working Women’s Day is a day of reckoning between President Duterte and the poor, deprived and oppressed women and children who pinned their hopes on his promises for land, jobs, justice and peace.

“The women workers, peasants, students, migrants and poor settlers remain in crisis after the president has broken many pledges for the poor and instead has grown to favor the destructive neoliberal polices of the past regimes,” said Gabriela Secretary General Joms Salvador.

The women’s group called on Filipino women to unite and continue to fight for genuine change.

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