SNUAC Northeast Asia Center is holding a special lecture with the author of Comfort Women, an anthology organizing the activities for reinstating the rights of victims of sex slavery by the Japanese army.  Washington Coalition for Comfort Women Issues (WCCW), a private organization in the U.S., was formed in 1992 to raise awareness for the human rights of women victimized as sex slaves by the Japanese army during WWII and their demands for apology and compensation to the Japanese government. Comfort Women: A Movement for Justice and Women’s Rights in the United States was published in commemoration of the International Memorial Day for Comfort Women on August 14th, 2020. It introduces the grassroots movement that took place in the U.S. over the last 28 years starting with the Washington testimony of Hwang Kum-Ju, a former comfort woman who spoke of her painful experience, over the span of 400 pages. This event will be an opportunity for us to think back upon the comfort women issue that still has not been solved, and the tasks that remain.

Speaker: Jung-Sil Lee (President of WCCW)