“Comfort Girls”: The Forgotten Tragedy of Child Exploitation

The “Comfort Women” system was not only a violation of women’s rights, but also a grave infringement of children’s rights. In this article, Professor Ñusta Carranza Ko examines how imperial Japanese authorities systematically violated the rights of underage girls, in direct contravention of international conventions of the time, reframing the issue as a case of child rights violations.

• 2025-08-05
• Ñusta Carranza Ko

Educating Difficult Histories and the Case of the “Comfort Women”

The Contested Histories Initiative (CHI) is a Europe-based NGO dedicated to studying disputes over h...

• 2025-07-23
• Paula O’Donohoe

Voices of “Comfort Women”: A Global Civic Movement for Memory

The suffering of the Japanese Military “Comfort Women,” one of the most tragic human rights abuses o...

• 2024-08-12
• Hye-in Han

The Victory of “Patriots without the State”

This victory is just the beginning, not the end. (…) I hope that this verdict will inspire more...

• 2022-11-30
• Jeong Mi Park

Your Name

In the era of “One Left” illustrated in a novel written by author Kim Soom, what we have to do now i...

• 2022-06-07
• Hunmi Lee