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Webzine KYEOL Special Features in August 2024

 

 

 

2024 International Memorial Day for Japanese Military "Comfort Women" From Margin to Center To be in the margin is to be part of the whole but outside the main body. - Bell Hooks - In Timor-Leste, a small island near Indonesia, many supporters are working to amplify the voices of the Japanese Military “Comfort Women” victims, who have been marginalized amid government indifference and social stigma. Meanwhile, a professor in the United States across the Pacific is teaching university courses on the history of “Comfort Women,” a subject rarely mentioned in textbooks, and emphasizes that society can stop violence against women by facing the dark sides of the past. Furthermore, some argue that making the history of “Comfort Women” an international official record is crucial to prevent the repetition of such an unfortunate history. Bringing the invisible victims back to the center of attention and recognizing the “Comfort Women” issue as a universal human rights issue for everyone living in the present, rather than a past issue of a few, is the starting point of the “Comfort Women” discourse. In commemoration of the 2024 International Memorial Day for Japanese Military “Comfort Women,” the webzine Kyeol introduces various movements made at home and abroad to bring the Japanese Military “Comfort Women” issue, which has lingered on the periphery of history, to the forefront as a core agenda of women’s rights.
#1 Uncovering the Tragic Legacy: Movement for the Victims of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery in Timor-Leste [Read more]
#2 Teaching the ‘Comfort Women’ Issue in the U.S. Society: A Global Citizenship Education to Overcome Nation-Centrism [Read more]
#3 The Voices of Japanese Military “Comfort Women”: A Global Civic Movement for Memory [Read more]

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