Thank you,” Lee Yong-soo, 97, a survivor of the Japanese military’s “comfort women” system of sexual slavery, said in a tremulous voice to the participants of the Wednesday Demonstration in front of ...

Kim Bok-dong was one of the first comfort women to speak out about her experiences in 1993 when she testified at the UN World Conference on Human Rights.

UN special rapporteurs in 1996 and 1998 were explicit: while Japan’s gestures were notable, true resolution demanded far more — clear acknowledgment of responsibility, full disclosure of truth, ...

At least 10 U.S. memorials dedicated to comfort women, mostly Koreans who were forced into Japanese military-run brothels during WWII, have been installed over the last decade.

OPINION Rep. Michelle Steel: International Women’s Day – Rewriting ‘comfort women' history worsens horrors of abuse For too long the experiences of these women have been covered up and ...

A few minutes before the start of our first international webinar last July, “‘Comfort Women’: The Struggle for Justice,” Grandma Lee Yongsoo entered our Zoom […] ...

Australia’s first statue honoring Chinese women forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during World War II ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A Harvard University professor has ignited an international uproar and faces mounting scrutiny for alleging that Korean women who were kept as sex slaves in wartime Japan had ...

A "comfort woman" statue is placed on a bus seat to mark the 5th International Memorial Day for Comfort Women in Seoul in August.