Civic groups call for UNESCO listing of comfort women documents

Civic groups from South Korea, China, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Timor-Leste have called on UNESCO to expedite the process of listing documents related to Japan's wartime sexual slavery of women on the Memory of the World Register. The coalition, which includes victims' testimonies and other materials, was initially submitted in 2016 but has been stalled since 2017 due to dialogue facilitation between the coalition and four groups from Japan and the United States.

With fewer than 30 surviving comfort women worldwide, the urgency for UNESCO to recognize and preserve this historical documentation becomes increasingly critical.

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