HRN makes oral intervention on the issue of military sexual slavery.

The 24th session of the Human Rights Council continues this week and Human Rights Now (HRN) has made an oral intervention during the clustered interactive dialogue with the United Nation's Special Rapporteur on truth, justice, reparation and non recurrence and the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery.

HRN urged the Japanese government to take full responsibility for past crimes against women during WWII. HRN also criticized the current tendency of the Japanese government to negate its responsibility for the past.

Please see the press release of the UN at the link below for more information. A full transcript of the oral intervention is also available to download or read in PDF format here.

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Civil society calls for truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-repetition towards Japan's military sexual slavery during WWII (PDF)