Comfort women must not be erased (opens in new tab)

The removal of the comfort women issue from the finalised Senior High School curriculum of the Department of Education (DepEd) in the Philippines is more than a curricular revision. It signals a negation that diminishes public recognition of wartime sexual survivors and risks narrowing collective historical consciousness within the educational system. At stake is not only what is taught, but how the state determines which histories are legitimised, remembered and institutionalised in public m...