Tag: comfort women

From the more than 200 documented survivors in the late 1990s, less than 40 Filipino comfort women are still alive

During World War II, up to 200,000 women across Asia including the Philippines were forced to work in Japanese military brothels

The dwindling number of surviving comfort women highlights a sense of urgency for them to receive a public apology from Japan

The comfort women campaign highlights the urgency for justice as attempts to whitewash history and to distort narratives continue

There is a sense of urgency for Filipino comfort women to receive a formal unequivocal public apology and just compensation from Japan

More than 1,000 Filipino women were forced to serve as sex slaves for the Japanese aggressors when Japan occupied the Philippines

Sancho’s death, along with the Lolas, highlights a sense of urgency for them to receive a formal unequivocal public apology

Isabelita and other Filipino women victims of sexual slavery and violence died without receiving a formal apology and compensation from Japan

Melo was one of the instrumental persons behind "Flowers-for-Lolas," an alliance supporting the campaign on the issue of comfort women

Eight decades since the war ended on Aug. 15, 1945, the Japanese government still refuses to recognize its accountability