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Philippines' 'comfort women' still awaiting justice 80 years after end of World War II
22 Aug 2025 00:22 GMT
… them.
The victims, often abducted or trafficked to Japanese military … Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) issued a … the rights of victims of sexual slavery perpetrated by the … Committee recommended that the victims must be provided with …
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Lee Says Rescinding Agreement on Sex Slavery Victims Undesirable
21 Aug 2025 05:51 GMT
… signed regarding the Korean victims of Japanese military sexual slavery, Lee told the … agreement on the Korean victims of Japanese military sexual slavery, as it is … for the positions of the victims, their families and the South …
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[Guest essay] True resolution of the ‘comfort women’ issue, as both victim and perpetrator state
21 Aug 2025 17:36 GMT
… deceased victim-survivors of the Japanese military’s “comfort women” system of sexual slavery … responsibility for state-sponsored grave human rights violations.
Eighty years after the … its survivors and uphold international human rights norms.
But Korea, too, …
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BOOK REVIEW | 'Comfort Women of the Japanese Empire'
21 Aug 2025 14:36 GMT
… abducting 200,000 Korean women and girls to be sex slaves, otherwise known as … .
According to Park, memories of victimhood are foregrounded at the expense … on assumptions that the women were under sexual slavery and forcibly abducted. According …
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Where child sex slave Cyntoia Brown is now 21 years after shooting man who had sex with her aged 16
20 Aug 2025 00:30 GMT
More than two decades ago, a judge handed Cyntoia Brown-Long a life sentence for shooting dead a man who had allegedly paid her for sex.
She was just 16-years-old at the time and 'many, many years' away from considering herself to be a victim of …
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Practitioners of Peace: Young Asians confront Japanese 'comfort women' system during WWII, preserving truth for future generations
19 Aug 2025 23:55 GMT
… be "comfort women" - sexual slaves for the Japanese army … and held with other girls at a local Japanese … Japan, studied the Korean women victim group, Li introduced.
Standing … crime and violation of human rights. The Japanese government must acknowledge …
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Building Next Generation Of Jihad: IS Pushes Women-Led Child Radicalisation
19 Aug 2025 16:13 GMT
… strategy, wherein the targets are women and children. In recent … the initial days, women were recruited to be sex slaves in the outfit … . Currently, the role of women is quite different, and most … channels have specifically asked for women to join the outfit. …
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Where Is Cyntoia Brown Now? See the Sex Trafficking Survivor 21 Years After the Shooting that Sent Her to Prison
19 Aug 2025 10:08 GMT
… prostitution, taking the money she earned. While being trafficked, … trafficking victims, kids handed juvenile life sentences and imprisoned women … allegedly manipulating her into sex slavery, and how her … addition to mentoring young girls, Brown has advocated …
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South Korea's Lee vows to pursue 3-phase 'denuclearization plan' for North Korea
22 Aug 2025 08:38 GMT
… and former sex slave for Japanese troops, euphemistically called "comfort women.…
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‘Rapist’ attorney says victim was 18, not 13
18 Aug 2025 11:02 GMT
… mother to use as a sex slave.
Also read: Mother who … of the victim R160 000 for the little girl. He is … sexual exploitation of a minor, trafficking in persons, possession and distribution … repeated sexual assaults, the girl was returned to her grandmother …