South Korean groups seek Unesco recognition for wartime comfort women

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A coalition of South Korean citizens’ groups held a press conference in Seoul on Sunday to urge UNESCO to add documents regarding wartime “comfort women” to its Memory of the World Register. This initiative followed a recent UNESCO resolution at a meeting in Busan that required Japan to acknowledge the “whole history” of forced laborers at a mine on Sado…

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