Comfort Women Compensation
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Comfort women compensation. Comfort women were mainly women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the imperial japanese army in occupied countries and territories before and during world war ii and the earlier program of voluntary prostitution. Estimates vary as to how many women were involved with numbers. Compensation and apology from shinzo abe as rivals south korea and japan reach landmark deal on wartime sex slaves.
It is now being claimed since the issue of sex slaves comfort women is a crime against humanity the issue can come up again and compensation requested. The women and their supporters sued for compensation on the grounds of human rights violations. Comfort station originated in govt regulated civilian prostitution the daily yomiuri 31 marzo 2007 p.
The issue of comfort women continues to surface. Dutch parliament demands japanese compensation for comfort women xinhau 21 novembre 2007. The wording of the deal does not explicitly state that the comfort women will receive direct compensation but states that the fund will provide support and bankroll projects for recovering.
If you are from asia live in asia or take keen interest in the diverse colorful culture of asian countries then chances are you probably have heard about comfort women. The issue of comfort women gained international awareness in 1991 when a group of surviving women breaking decades of silence filed a class action lawsuit against the japanese government. The name comfort women is a translation of the japanese ianfu 慰安婦 a euphemism for prostitute s.
Comfort women and compensation. Former comfort woman lee ok sun sits in her bedroom at the sharing house a commune and nursing home for former comfort women in toechon village east of seoul on april 8 2018. The comfort women story is not a happy tale but one that needs telling none the less.