Tag: Comfort Women
Accurate historical inclusion while the comfort women’s voices can still be...
From the more than 200 documented survivors in the late 1990s, less than 40 Filipino comfort women are still alive
Philippines urged to compensate WWII sex slave survivors
During World War II, up to 200,000 women across Asia including the Philippines were forced to work in Japanese military brothels
‘Comfort women’ statues as reminders of Japanese wartime atrocities
The comfort women campaign highlights the urgency for justice as attempts to whitewash history and to distort narratives continue
Photos: Flowers for the Philippines’ ‘comfort women’
More than 1,000 Filipino women were forced to serve as sex slaves for the Japanese aggressors when Japan occupied the Philippines
Lola Isabelita Viduya, comfort woman, 89
Isabelita and other Filipino women victims of sexual slavery and violence died without receiving a formal apology and compensation from Japan
Remembering the ‘comfort women’ and their continuing call for justice
Eight decades since the war ended on Aug. 15, 1945, the Japanese government still refuses to recognize its accountability
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