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 ...

At the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum last week, a group of people gathered around a small exhibit commemorating the life of Grandma Lee Ok-seon, who was one of the many victims of sexual ...

A statue commemorating so-called comfort women during World War II is displayed in a residential area of Berlin in October 2020. (Markus Schreiber / Associated Press) On a quiet street corner in ...

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 ...

Why the bronze figure of a girl in Germany is infuriating the Japanese government. In Berlin, a “Statue of Peace” has angered Japanese officials. It commemorates over 200,000 girls and women from 14 ...

TOKYO -- Japan's practice of enslaving women to provide sex for its troops in World War II had a little-known sequel: After its surrender -- and with tacit approval from U.S. occupation authorities -- ...

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 ...