A day before International Women's Day, the Amihan National Federation of Peasant Women, Tanggol Magsasaka, and Free Our Sisters -Southern Tagalog trooped to the Department of National Defense office in Camp Aguinaldo, Quezon City to call for the stop of militarization of peasant communities and various human rights cases of abuse against peasant women resulting to illegal arrest and detention perpetrated by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP and the Philippine National Police (PNP).

The groups demanded the release of 97 peasant women political prisoners, the majority of which, 74 were under Duterte administration. (MB Video by Mark Balmores)