Social Sciences
Today is International Women's Day. For ten days, from March 9 to 20, the 59th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women takes place at United Nations Headquarters in New York. It will be a time of exchange, challenge, declaration, learning, and protest. There will be a number of events on the Comfort Women issue.
8 MARCH 1:30 to 5:00 PM
Commemoration of the 20-year anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action
Sponsored by UN Women, the City of New York, the UN Women for Peace Association, NGO CSW New York, Man Up Campaign, and the Working Group on Girls.
March through New York City midtown, starting at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza and ending on Times Square
- Comfort Women And The Un - Washington Seminar
The UN and the Comfort Women: Sex Slavery in International Law Thursday, December 18, 2014Noon-1:30PM PresenterDr. Etsuro TotsukaProfessor of Law Whittmore House, Library1526 New Hampshire Avenue, NWWashington, DC, (202) 232-7363 Free,...
- A Call To Action: Women, Religion, Violence, And Power
On March 25, former President Jimmy Carter releases his new book, Call To Action, that focuses on what he says is "the number one challenge in the world today." This is the discrimination and abuse against women. The book builds...
- Symposium To Save The Kono Statement
SYMPOSIUM TO SAVE THE KONO STATEMENT DON?T LET ABE DISMANTLE AN APOLOGY Friday, March 7, 2014 4:00-4:00 pm LocationHouse of Representatives Diet Members Building #1 First Floor International Conference Room (Passes will be distributed that...
- New Jersey State Assembly Passes Comfort Women Resolution
Gordon JohnsonNEW JERSEY STATE ASSEMBLY DEMOCRATS PRESS RELEASE ...
- Comfort Women And Asian American Vote
MemorialOn January 29, the New York State State adopted a Legislative Resolution recognizing a small stone monument in Nassau County dedicated to the myriad women in Asia who were forced to become sex slaves to Imperial Japan's Armed Forces...
Social Sciences
New York Programs on Comfort Women - Carpe Diem
DECLARE
March for gender equality on International Women?s Day!
8 MARCH 1:30 to 5:00 PMCommemoration of the 20-year anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action
Sponsored by UN Women, the City of New York, the UN Women for Peace Association, NGO CSW New York, Man Up Campaign, and the Working Group on Girls.
March through New York City midtown, starting at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza and ending on Times Square
PROTEST
Protest against Japanese far-right historical revisionists in New York City
9 MARCH 5:30 PM, 49 W. 45th Street NYC
Sponsored by Sloths Against Nuclear State and others at
Sponsored by Sloths Against Nuclear State and others at
Protest panel discussions organized by Happy Science and Nadeshiko denying the Comfort Women history held Japanese American Association of New York
See HERE for descriptions of the three events these organizations are sponsoring
9 MARCH 12:30 to 2:00 PM, Armenian Convention Center, Grand Ballroom, 630 Second Avenue
Sponsored by Human Rights Now (HRN)
Ms. Kazuko Ito, Esq., Secretary General of Human Rights Now (HRN) and a member of the UN Women Regional Civil Society Advisory Group (Asia Pacific)
Ms. Mina Watanabe, Secretary General Women?s Active Museum on War and Peace (WAM)
Ms. Kelli Muddell, Director of the Gender Justice Program at the International Center for Transitional Justice
Ms. Shu-Hua Kang, Executive Director, Taipei Women?s Rescue Foundation
Sponsored by the Republic of Korea, Women's Human Rights Commission of Korea
See HERE for descriptions of the three events these organizations are sponsoring
LEARN
Truth and Justice for ?Comfort Women? Sexual Slavery in the Japanese Military during WWII
9 MARCH 12:30 to 2:00 PM, Armenian Convention Center, Grand Ballroom, 630 Second AvenueSponsored by Human Rights Now (HRN)
Ms. Kazuko Ito, Esq., Secretary General of Human Rights Now (HRN) and a member of the UN Women Regional Civil Society Advisory Group (Asia Pacific)
Ms. Mina Watanabe, Secretary General Women?s Active Museum on War and Peace (WAM)
Ms. Kelli Muddell, Director of the Gender Justice Program at the International Center for Transitional Justice
Ms. Shu-Hua Kang, Executive Director, Taipei Women?s Rescue Foundation
Survivors' Voice: Film Screenings of Sexual Slavery in the Japanese Military during WWII'Song of the Reed' and 'Breaking the History of Silence'
10 MARCH 2:00 to 5:30 PM, TECO, 1 East 42nd Street, B1Sponsors: Taipei Women?s Rescue Foundation and Women?s Active Museum on War and Peace (WAM) with assistance from Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York (TECO)
Sexual Violence During Wartime: Accountability, Achievements and Challenges
12 MARCH, 3:00 to 4:15 PM, Conference Room E - UN General Assembly BuildingSponsored by the Republic of Korea, Women's Human Rights Commission of Korea
- Comfort Women And The Un - Washington Seminar
The UN and the Comfort Women: Sex Slavery in International Law Thursday, December 18, 2014Noon-1:30PM PresenterDr. Etsuro TotsukaProfessor of Law Whittmore House, Library1526 New Hampshire Avenue, NWWashington, DC, (202) 232-7363 Free,...
- A Call To Action: Women, Religion, Violence, And Power
On March 25, former President Jimmy Carter releases his new book, Call To Action, that focuses on what he says is "the number one challenge in the world today." This is the discrimination and abuse against women. The book builds...
- Symposium To Save The Kono Statement
SYMPOSIUM TO SAVE THE KONO STATEMENT DON?T LET ABE DISMANTLE AN APOLOGY Friday, March 7, 2014 4:00-4:00 pm LocationHouse of Representatives Diet Members Building #1 First Floor International Conference Room (Passes will be distributed that...
- New Jersey State Assembly Passes Comfort Women Resolution
Gordon JohnsonNEW JERSEY STATE ASSEMBLY DEMOCRATS PRESS RELEASE ...
- Comfort Women And Asian American Vote
MemorialOn January 29, the New York State State adopted a Legislative Resolution recognizing a small stone monument in Nassau County dedicated to the myriad women in Asia who were forced to become sex slaves to Imperial Japan's Armed Forces...