On March 8, International Women’s Day, pink poppies and roses filled the chair next to a recently installed Statue of Peace in Cologne, Germany. The seat is left empty and available for anyone ...

Though hailed as a "beautiful call for peace", this 60kg bronze statue of a young girl has languished in a suburban garage ...

An estimated 50,000 to 200,000 women were forced into sexual slavery in countries occupied by the Japanese army during WWII ...

At the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum last week, a group of people gathered around a small exhibit commemorating the life of Grandma Lee Ok-seon, who was one of the many victims of sexual ...

In 1993, Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yohei Kono issued a formal apology to former comfort women and acknowledged Japan’s responsibility for their suffering.

A survey by Shanghai Normal University's Research Centre for Chinese Comfort Women released last August identified 418 Chinese victims who survived Japan's system of sexual slavery during World War II ...

Many victim-survivors and scholars say ‘sex slaves’ more accurately describes the abuses the women endured, but governments have been slow to change their view.

Last week, a South Korean appellate court ordered Japan to compensate the remaining Korean ‘comfort women’ who were forced to work in military brothels during World War II.

She campaigned for a formal apology and reparations from Japan for what it did to thousands of women like her, mostly Korean, during World War II.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's planned statement marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two will likely reflect his view that Japan's "comfort women" system of wartime military brothels ...

MANILA (Kyodo) -- Groups supporting Filipino women who were forced to work in Japanese military brothels during World War II held a rally in Manila on Thursday to demand an official apology and ...