At a huge rally at the center of this capital city, the country’s biggest women’s organization Gabriela narrates how Filipino women suffered the most under the Benigno Aquino government. It’s secretary general Joms Salvador says that one woman is victimized by violence in the Philippines every 40 minutes. Peasant woman Celia Veloso laments the sad fate that befell her daughter who is a victim of human trafficking while woman worker Myrna Pisao cries for justice for 73 co-workers who died in a factory fire last year.

Listen as Filipino women commemorate International Working Women’s Day 2016 in Manila, Philippines.