Initiatives by Citizens of a Perpetrator State: Advocating to UN Human Rights Bodies for the Rights of Survivors (original) (raw)
2020, Japanese Military Sexual Slavery
Concerned citizens in Japan have taken various actions in order to holdthe government of Japan accountable for crimes and human rights violationscommitted duringW WII under Japan'sm ilitary sexual slavery system, euphemistically called the "comfort women" system. In the early1 990s, citizens of Japan joined the redress movement initiatedbythe victims/survivors of the "comfort women" system and theirsupporters in victimizedcountries.Citizens and scholars began undertaking fact-finding research, while lawyers supported victims filing lawsuits against the Japanese government.W ith respect to international human rights bodies, in an attempt to make the government of Japan accountable under international human rights law, as earlya s1 992, attorney at-law, Mr Totsuka Etsuro, began providinginformationtothe then-UNCommission on Human Rights and the then-Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities. Violence against women, especiallyr ape and sexual violence during war and armed conflict,w as one of the biggest concerns of global women'sm ovements in the 1990s. The victims/survivors of Japan'smilitary sexual slavery system who testified in international foragaveimportant impetus not onlyt owomen'srights activists but alsotothose who specialized in human rights law. Since then, anumber of recommendations on this matter have been issued by UN special rapporteurs, UN human rights treatybodies and international human rights NGOs. The Violence Against Womeni nW ar Network Japan (VAWW-NET Japan)ยน began submitting reports and lobbying UN HumanRights institutions in August 2002 following the December2001 final judgement of the Women'sInternational WarC rimes Tribunal for Japan'sM ilitary Sexual Slavery delivered in The Hague, the Netherlands. The purpose of the first submission was to inform UN Human
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