2 results for month: 02/2017
Statue Wars Reveal Contested History of Japan’s ‘Comfort Women’
On December 30 2016, a South Korean civic group placed a bronze statue of a girl in front of the Japanese consulate in the southern port city of Busan. It commemorates as many as 200,000 enslaved military prostitutes, known as “comfort women”, from Korea and other parts of East Asia under Japanese domination during the second world war. In response, Japan recalled its ambassador.
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A Briefing on North Korean Abductions and Enforced Disappearances in Congruence with the WGEID Visit
Families of those taken by North Korea speak out.
For the first time, the combined list of 184 individual communications submitted to the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) by the families of abductees and supporting NGOs will be released to the international media.
In congruence with the WGEID's 111th session in Seoul, victim groups will host a joint media briefing on the issues of North Korean abduction and enforced disappearance. Following a speech by the WGEID, representatives of the abductees' family groups and the Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances will speak and take questions.
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