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by Yunsun Roh | 17.04.26 00:25

Human right is a right to live a humane life, a right that every person is entitled to. Surprisingly, it wasn¡¯t until the end of the French revolution in the late 18th century that the concept of human rights emerged. However, even today, a lot of women across the world are denied their basic human rights. Even in the United States, women¡¯s suffrage was not granted until the 19th Amendment was passed in the 1920¡¯s. Today, many women¡¯s rights activists are still fighting for women¡¯s rights across the world.

 

Today, many women¡¯s rights activists are still fighting for women¡¯s rights across the world.

 

Malala Yousafzai is a women¡¯s rights activist in Pakistan, who fights for the Pakistani women¡¯s rights to education. She brought hope to Muslim women by standing up to the Taliban, a group that denied girls an education.

 

Anuradha Koirala rescued many Nepalese women from violence. Thanks to her efforts, over 12,000 women were freed from a cycle of domestic violence and sex trafficking.

 

Shirin Ebadi made a new history for Iranian women and children¡¯s rights. She led initiatives to change Islamic laws to gain equal rights for women and children, and to remove derogatory descriptions of women from elementary school textbooks.

 

Leymah Gbowee played a critical role in ending the Second Liberian Civil War. After leaving her abusive husband in a refugee camp, she became a leader in a women¡¯s peace movement.

 

Betty Makoni rescued many child victims of sexual abuse in Zimbabwe. After overcoming her own trauma of being raped as a child, she became a protector of children who were sexually abused.

 

Kailash Satyarthi rescued children from exploitation in India. Through a steadfast campaign, he freed numerous Indian children from child labor and allowed them to attend school by amending the constitution.

 

Rebecca Masika Katsuva in Congo founded a center to shelter female rape victims and protect orphans born from rapes during the wartime.

 

And, in Korea, there are the elderly women¡¯s rights activists who are still actively fighting. They are the survivors of Japanese Military Comfort Women.

 

On August 14, 1991, a painful truth that was kept as a secret for 46 years was unveiled in Seoul, South Korea. For the first time ever, a victim of Japanese Military Comfort Women had attested to Japan¡¯s sexual offenses during World War II.

 

From 1937 to 1945, the Imperial Japanese Army kidnapped and forced over 20 million girls in 11 countries including Korea, China, and The Philippines into sex slavery for their soldiers.

 

Many victims passed away during the war and surviving victims of sex slavery had to suffer from the traumatic experience. Despite their scarred past, survivors of sex slavery were subject to silence due to societal taboo and indifference.

 

However, on June of 1990, Japan attempted to cover their war crime by denying their involvement with Comfort Women during World War II. This prompted a victim and survivor of Comfort Women, Hak-sun Kim, to be the first to speak up and expose Japan¡¯s war crimes of sexual slavery on August 14, 1991.

 

At a press conference, she commented that seeing the Japanese imperial flag "still makes me shudder. Until now, I did not have the courage to speak, even though there were so many things I wanted to say."

 

Following Kim¡¯s brave action, other victims spoke up to expose the crimes of the Imperial Japanese Army. Starting on January 8th, 1992, a protest known as ¡°Wednesday Demonstration¡± took off on its historical journey. Every Wednesday at 12 p.m., protestors gather in front of the Embassy of Japan in Seoul to request an official recognition and apology, compensation, and a record in the history textbooks from the Japanese government. This demonstration has been taking place for the past 25 years.

 

Hak-sun Kim is the first Korean women rights activist who campaigned against sex slavery and war rape. She visited the Tokyo District Court in 1991 to serve as a witness for the truth about Comfort Women. She protested in front of the Japanese Parliament requesting the government¡¯s apology and compensation, and spent the rest of her life to bring international attention to the Comfort Women issue.

 

Currently in Korea, only 46 Comfort Women victims are alive. Most of them are close to 90 years old, so not many are able to move around conveniently. But recently, the elderly activists have been busier than ever. They are actively protesting because of the Japanese Government¡¯s denial of the existence of the Comfort Women history.

 

In 1993 Yohei Kono, Minister of Internal Affairs, released a statement that the Japanese Imperial Army had forced women, known as comfort women, to work in military-run brothels during World War II. In 1995, Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama apologized for the damage and suffering caused by Japan to its neighboring countries in Asia.

 

However, along with Shinzō Abe who is the current Prime Minister of Japan, the right-wing Japanese are denying Japan¡¯s crime with Comfort Women. Their denial is making the elderly activists in South Korea join hands once more. Among the elderly activists, Yongsoo Lee has been a central character.


 

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Yong-soo Lee has been a fierce activist demanding an acceptance of government responsibility and official apology from Japanese government for the state-sanctioned sexual slavery of women during WWII, the largest case of human trafficking in the 20th Century. She was a recipient of a Human Rights Award at the US Congress along with eight other survivors in 2000 and testified in 2007 at the US Congress about her experience for passage of House Resolution 121.

 

On March 8, Yong-soo Lee attended the International Women's Day event that was held by New York City Hall and the United Nations. At the event, she reflected that "New York City Council's decision to introduce the 'Comfort Women Resolution' upholds the human rights of victims who have passed away" and thanked the politicians of New York City "for their effort and devotion to uncover the truth."

 

Due to her heroic efforts, Lee was awarded a distinguished service medal by the California Senate on March 17th, 2015. In her acceptance speech, Mrs. Lee stated that, ¡°without the Japanese government taking its state responsibility for the military sexual slavery of more than 200,000 women and children during WWII, we won¡¯t be able to set an international standard to hold a state responsible for the violence against women during military conflict. Without Japan setting an example, we won¡¯t be able to hold ISIS or Boko Haram accountable for the horrible crimes they are committing at this moment.¡±

 

She also rebuked that Japan must build its own Peace Monument in Downtown Tokyo so that everyone who pass by can see and remember what their ancestors did to us. If Japanese government isn¡¯t up to own up the history, the rest of the world is."

 

And, Lee goes on to say the following:

 

¡°I am 88 years old, which is the perfect age to be a human rights activist.¡±

 

 

 

by Chang Hyun Roh

translated by Yun-sun Roh from Korean NEWSROH(www.newsroh.com)

 

 

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