UN body calls on Japan to ensure ‘comfort women’ survivors’ right to reparations

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To mark International Memorial Day for ‘Comfort Women’ on Aug. 14, 2024, participants at a rally held at the Statue of Peace in Berlin’s Mitte borough lay flowers before the memorial honoring victims of wartime sexual violence. (Jang Ye-ji/Hankyoreh) The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) issued another call for the Japanese government to increase its efforts to uphold the rights of survivors of wartime military sexual slavery, including the acceptance of requests for compensation. In its observations, it stressed the need for the Japanese government to exclude war crimes and crimes against humanity from periods of limitation and to approach the matter of reparations from a victim-centered perspective. On Tuesday, CEDAW published a document entitled “Concluding observations on the ninth periodic report of Japan,” concerning the Japanese government’s implementation of the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. The report stated that while the committee “commends the efforts of the State party [Japan] with regard to addressing the rights of ‘comfort women,’” those efforts also “need to be sustained and expanded to ensure the rights of victims/survivors to truth, justice and reparations.” The committee referred repeatedly to past recommendations issued...

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