International Council of Jurists to Address Comfort Women Problem

At the working group meeting of the UN Commission on Human Rights on modern-type slaves held in Geneva on May 24, the International Commission of Jurists called for the “establishment of a panel to confirm the problem of comfort houses for the army.” This panel would address the procurement of women from surrounding countries by the Japanese Government at the recommendation of the Japanese army for the “comfort” of the army during the late 1920s…[more]