MINDANAO ISLAND, Philippines (CNN) - Women are taking a stand to stop violence in the Philippines by withholding sex.
The sex strike was an effort to end a separatist rebellion that's been under way on the Filipino island of Mindanao since the 1970s.
The women are part of a sewing cooperative. They were fed up with not being able to deliver their products due to the violence that closed down a main road between two villages. So they withheld sex from their husbands until they promised to quit fighting.
"If our husbands wanted to fight, we'd tell them not to. If they still went, we'd say OK, it's up to you. But you will not be accepted at home."
Within weeks of the strike starting, the main village road re-opened and the fighting stopped.
The women, along with other villagers, were able to deliver their goods and start to rebuild the economy.