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 ...

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Survivors of Japan's wartime sexual slavery and their families have renewed their calls for Chinese courts to accept their landmark lawsuits and launch investigations as the 80th anniversary of the ...

Somewhere between 20,000 and 300,000 women, mainly from the Korean Peninsula, were trafficked into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army before and during the Second World War: the so-called ...

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“We weren’t liberated. The war isn’t over. This is our war.” Lee Ok-seon, 97, a former victim of the Japanese military’s “comfort women” system of sexual slavery and a human rights activist who passed ...