On International Women's Day, recently retired judges Lillian Sing and Julie Tang will present the history of the "comfort women," a euphemism for the sexual slavery of hundreds of thousands of women and girls (whose death rate during enslavement was 87 percent) by the Japanese imperial government in 13 Asia-Pacific countries from 1931 to 1945. This history will be memorialized in the soon-to-be-installed “Comfort Women” Memorial in San Francisco. Judges Sing and Tang will review the 20th century history of war-time atrocities against women and also touch on current efforts to fight against modern-day sexual slavery.
Speakers
Judge Lillian Sing
(Retired)
Judge Julie Tang
(Retired)
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