Marking the 100th International Women¡¯s Day on Saturday, rallies condemning the Japanese military¡¯s wartime sexual enslavement of women from Asian countries were held around the world. The Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan staged a demonstration in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul at noon on Wednesday. The organization demonstrates there every Wednesday calling on Japan to apologize and pay compensation to the so-called comfort women. The Seoul rally was joined by former comfort women like Lee Yong-soo, Kil Won-ok and Lee Soon-deok, and Amnesty International's deputy program director for the Asia-Pacific region, Madhu Malhotra.
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Members of women's civic groups stage a rally with former Korean comfort women who served as sexual slaves for the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II, ahead of International Women's Day, which will be marked on March 8, in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on Wednesday. /AP
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Similar rallies were staged in Daegu, as well as Japan, the U.K., the Philippines, Australia, Taiwan and Indonesia. A Japanese network held a demonstration in Osaka on Wednesday. It plans to rally in front of Japanese parliament in Tokyo on Friday.
In the Philippines, former comfort women visited parliament on Monday, and a protest was held in front of the Japanese Embassy in Manila on Wednesday. In Australia and at Britain¡¯s University of Warwick, there were campaigns to collect signatures for a parliamentary resolution denouncing Japan¡¯s enslavement of women during Worl War II.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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