President Donald Trump’s meeting with South Korean President Lee Jae-myung took an unexpected turn Monday when the U.S. leader decided to bring up the topic of forced prostitution. The White House ...

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 ...

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 ...

During his White House meeting with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on August 25, 2025, US President Donald Trump unexpectedly raised the sensitive issue of “comfort women.” The discussion, which ...

Dozens of women who worked in the sex trade in South Korea are seeking an apology and compensation for the rights abuses they suffered while catering to American G.I.s. By Choe Sang-Hun Reporting from ...

Mina Watanabe has made it her life’s work to tell the stories of the women who were sexually enslaved by the Japanese military before and during World War II. By Vivian Morelli Reporting from Tokyo ...

About 600 mostly women demonstrators, including a survivor, joined a rally in South Korean capital Seoul demanding justice and compensation for victims of sexual slavery by the Japanese military ...

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 ...

Minjeong Kim's historical play is set to open this March following a critically acclaimed 2024 run at King's Head Theatre – now with live Gayageum accompaniment. Gaia House Productions are delighted ...

Catholics in South Korea have urged the Japanese government to offer a sincere apology to the comfort women forced into sexual slavery by its imperial army during World War II. The National Catholic ...