Japan’s report during the Fourth Cycle of the United Nations’ Universal Periodic Review of Human Rights is incomplete due to its silence on the comfort women issue. Know more:
Japan’s report during the Fourth Cycle of the United Nations’ Universal Periodic Review of Human Rights is incomplete due to its silence on the comfort women issue.
During the fourth UPR cycle, States are again expected to spell out steps they have taken to implement recommendations posed during their previous reviews, which they committed to follow up on, and highlight recent human rights developments in the country. It also totally ignored the recommendations made by other countries —particularly China and South Korea during the Third Cycle Review in 2017—for Japan to finally address this long-standing issue.
“It pains me to see that these courageous women, who have been fighting for their rights, are passing away one by one, without their rights restored and without receiving the reparation to which they are entitled,” Pillay stressed. About 200,000 women from Korea, China, Burma, New Guinea, and the Philippines were abducted, trafficked, or brought to the Japanese military camps, and many thousands more were raped as part of one of the largest operations of sexual violence in modern history.The military sexual slavery enforced by Japan is a war crime and atrocious human rights violation, as confirmed by major international and domestic institutions.
From the more than 200 documented survivors in the late 1990s, less than 50 Filipino comfort women are still alive.
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