‘Miss-Ogyny’


'Miss-Ogyny'. Members of the Gabriela Network in New York held last week a "beauty pageant" to dramatize the killings of political activists, many of them women, in the Philippines. Photo shows a GABNet member dressed like a beauty queen, with a sash saying ?Miss-Ogyny,? and holding a purple umbrella decked with small placards containing photos of Philippine women victims of political killings. (GABnet photo) | Read Davao Today's coverage of the extrajudicial killings in the Philippines | More Davao Today photographs

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The Philippines’s amazing women

MANILA — Last May 16, history was made as three Pinays became the first Southeast Asian women to summit Mount Everest and the first women in the world to traverse the mountain from the North side to the South side. Filipinas Noelle Wenceslao, Carina Dayondon, and Janet Belarmino certainly made our country proud as they overcame numerous obstacles to reach the top of the highest mountain on earth.
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