ADAMS — “No shoes, no name, no face, no freedom. No pride, no future, no hope. No life. I never was a comfort woman. I never was your comfort girl.” So says the powerful 90-minute song cycle “Comfort ...

This week, women gathered in downtown Chicago to advocate for justice for one of the darkest and least talked about legacies of World War II, the forced slavery of “comfort women.” “Their stories are ...

This year, China’s core scholars on “comfort women” — women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese army in World War II — published two career-defining books. One, “A Comprehensive ...

Rick Halperin, SMU Human Rights Program director and co-founder of Human Rights Dallas, examines an exhibit before moderating a panel on comfort women at the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum ...

On Jan. 23, 2024, the Mellon Sawyer Seminar hosted the panel “From Comfort Woman to Comfort Child: Genealogies of Gendered and Sexualized Violence in the Korean Diaspora.” Organized by Yuri Doolan ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The United Nations Secretary-General met Friday with one of the less than 50 surviving victims of Japan‘s wartime military-run brothel system known as "comfort women." Ban ...

For Sinmin Pak, the death of her parents — her father in 2011 and her mother in 2014 — left a hole in her life. Pak’s three children had grown up and left home, and the time she hoped to spend with ...