Education for Social Justice Foundation
  • Home
    • About Us >
      • Social Justice Education
      • Advocacy
    • Blog
    • Interviews and articles
  • Educator Resources
    • Sexual and Gender-based Violence >
      • Japanese military sexual slavery system
      • Sexual and medical violence against Black Americans
      • Conflict-related SGBV TODAY
    • History of and Issues Surrounding Asian Diaspora in the United States >
      • SF Bay Area Resources
      • Beyond SF Bay Area
    • GRASSROOTS MOVEMENTS THAT SHAPED HISTORY
    • Medical Atrocities and Use of Banned Weapons
  • ESJF Publications
    • "Comfort Women" History and Issues
  • ESJF Study Tours & More
  • Get Involved

Second symposium on the Seoul Central District Court's ruling ordering Japan to pay reparations to Japanese military sexual slavery victims

1/28/2021

0 Comments

 
Picture
​This second symposium in the series is hosted by ten South Korean National Assembly members and organized by the Korean Council, Research Network on Japanese Military Sexual Slavery, Lawyers for a Democratic Society, and the House of Sharing.

Sang-hui Lee, an attorney on a task force overseeing the comfort women issue for MINBYUN-Lawyers for a Democratic Society (민주사회를 위한 변호사모임), is the first presenter. Click here for Sang-hui Lee's interview in The Hankyoreh.

The panel session that Sung Sohn presented is on the significance of the ruling as seen by the international community and media outlets. Click here for Sung's essay Landmark Seoul Central District Court Ruling on Japan’s System of Military Sexual Slavery. The other two participants in this session are:

​Professor Tae-Woong Baek, William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaii Professor Baek, specializing in international human rights law, was actively engaged in the democracy movement against the military dictatorship and labor movement in South Korea during the '80s and '90s.
Mee-Hee Shin, Executive Director of the Citizens’ Coalition for Democratic Media (민주언론시민연합)

Date: January 28 (KST)
Time: 2 pm-6 pm (KST)

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Categories

    All

    Archives

    March 2025
    December 2024
    September 2024
    August 2024
    July 2024
    June 2024
    March 2024
    February 2024
    December 2023
    October 2023
    September 2023
    August 2023
    July 2023
    June 2023
    May 2023
    March 2023
    February 2023
    December 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    April 2022
    February 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Proudly powered by Weebly
  • Home
    • About Us >
      • Social Justice Education
      • Advocacy
    • Blog
    • Interviews and articles
  • Educator Resources
    • Sexual and Gender-based Violence >
      • Japanese military sexual slavery system
      • Sexual and medical violence against Black Americans
      • Conflict-related SGBV TODAY
    • History of and Issues Surrounding Asian Diaspora in the United States >
      • SF Bay Area Resources
      • Beyond SF Bay Area
    • GRASSROOTS MOVEMENTS THAT SHAPED HISTORY
    • Medical Atrocities and Use of Banned Weapons
  • ESJF Publications
    • "Comfort Women" History and Issues
  • ESJF Study Tours & More
  • Get Involved