Comfort Women Project - Asia Trip 2008

This project, supported by THE ASIAN CULTURAL COUNCIL and THE LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL, honors the memory of 200,000 young women known as "Comfort Women" who were systematically exploited as sex slaves in asia during WWII, and increases awareness of sexual violence against women during wartime. The event was organized on an industrial scale, not seen before in modern history, and is the largest instance of human trafficking in the 20th century, yet it has gone largely unacknowledged.

Saturday

16. Professor Hyo Chae Lee

Tuesday July 22, 2008

Meeting with Professor Hyo Chae Lee, a former Professor of Sociology at Ewha Women's University and a respected long-time activist for women's rights in Korea. Along with Professor Jung Oak Yun, she was one of the first working to bring the Korean "comfort women" issue to light and to promote international awareness.

She is also the founder of Miracle Library, multi branch children's library and community center in Jinhae.