U.N. human rights panel tells Japan to compensate 'comfort women'
July 25, 2014
GENEVA--A United Nations human rights panel called on Japan on July 24 to undertake independent investigations of the wartime "comfort women" issue and apologize to the women who were victims before it was too late.
Some historians estimate that as many as 200,000 so-called comfort women, many from China and South Korea, were forced into the Imperial Japanese Army's brothels before and during World War II.
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Japan has said compensation for women forced to work in the brothels was settled by a 1965 treaty establishing diplomatic ties with South Korea.
