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The 8th Asian Solidarity Conference for the Issue of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan Resolution (Dr |
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The 8th Asian Solidarity Conference for the Issue of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan Resolution (Draft)
The 8th Asian Solidarity Conference for the Issue of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan, with the title ¡°15 Years of Asian Solidarity, For Future Tasks and Coalition¡± was held from 19 to 21 May 2007, with participants from North and South Korea, Japan, Republic of China, Indonesia, the Philippines, the Netherlands, as well as USA, Germany, and Australia.
Since 1991, when the brave survivors¡¯ testified to break their silence, we have made efforts in the UN and international bodies to bring about Government of Japan¡¯s (GoJ) official apology and reparation; including declaring the Emperor Hirohito guilty at the 2000 Women¡¯s International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan¡¯s Military Sexual Slavery. These achievements are the result of the Asian and international community solidarity work, for the purpose of healing the pain and suffering of the survivors.
However, despite these efforts and achievements, GoJ is not only refusing to publicly apologize for their war crimes committed against the victims of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery System, but still refusing to give adequate reparation and to honor the facts and truth about Japanese Military Sexual Slavery. Instead, they are repeating statements of denial which appeases GoJ¡¯s responsibilities. Furthermore, disregarding their acts of colonization and aggressive warfare in the past, they are returning to war waging state by reforming the Article Nine of the Japanese Constitution. In addition, the Asian Women Fund has been dissolved in March 2007; it has been confirmed that such a fund has not resolved the Japanese Military Sexual Slavery issue.
In this context, U.S.¡¯s efforts to pass House Resolution 121 and the efforts to pass parliamentary motions in Canada and Australia, illustrate the broadening of coalition among international human rights organizations. It also reaffirms that the international communities more and more realize that the resolution of the issue of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan is not just relevant to the survivors and citizens of the perpetrator / victim countries, but it is a universal task important to our future.
Therefore, in hope and solidarity, we resolve to do the following:
1.¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡We support activities to successfully pass the Congressional resolution and parliamentary motions in U.S., Canada, Australia and elsewhere.
2.¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡We object the Government of Japan¡¯s attempt to revise the 1993 ¡°Kono statement¡± and we demand that the GoJ must take full responsibility and necessary execution of policies for official apology, reparation, truth and fact finding, as well as prevention of reoccurrence.
3.¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡We demand the Government of Japan to carry out the recommendations by the UN Human Rights bodies, and we demand the UN Human Rights Council to monitor the issue of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan.
4.¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡We support the network¡¯s efforts to build peace and/or women¡¯s museums centered on the issue of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery, dedicated to historical record making, remembering of history and public education.
5.¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡We will expand the Asian Solidarity Conference for Resolution of Military Sexual Slavery issue into Global solidarity Conference, through which the spirit of last fifteen years of Asian activism and achievements will be continued and improved.
May 21, 2007
All participants in the 8th Asian Solidarity Conference
for the Issue of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan
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Taiwanese Participants ;
Graceia Lai, Taipei Women's Rescue Foundation, Taiwan
Wu, Hui-ling, Taipei Women's Rescue Foundation, Taiwan
Wu, Hsiu-mei, A Taiwanese survivor of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan
Filipina Participants ;
Rechilda A. Extremadura, Lila Pilipina Executive Director
Lola Pilar E.Frias, A Filipina survivor of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan
Susan Dava Macabuag, Lola Masing Support Network
Indonesian Participants ;
Eka Hindrati, The Indonesian Advocacy for Jugun Ianfu / Advocacy Team
Chinese Participants ;
Su zhi liang, a regular researcher of the¡¡Shanghai college of education
Dutch Participants ;
Jose Adriaansen-Smit, Foundation of Japanese Honorary Debt in the Netherlands
Anneriet de Pijper. Foundation of Japanese Honorary Debt the Netherlands
Democratic People¢¥s Republic of Korean Participants ; Committee on Measures for Compensation to Former Korean¡¡"Comfort Women for Japanese Army" and Drafting Victims
- Son Ok Hong, Chol Su Son, Chun Sil Kim, Myong Kuk An, Dong Hyok Ri
Republic of Korean
* Korean survivor of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan
Yong Soo Lee, Won Ok Gil, Jeom Dol Jang, Sun Duk Lee, Ok Sun Lee, Ok Sun Park, Il Chul Kang, Soon Ok Kim, Gun Ja Kim
* Activists, Volunteers, Citizens, etc.
Mee Hyang Yoon, Kuk Yom Han, Sasanna Youn, Hea Jeong Kang, Tae Hyo Jeung, Kyung Hee Lee, Ok sun Choi, Sn Shil Kim, Cho Yun Hi, Yoon Ok Kim, Jeong Ok Yoon, Do Ja Song, Chel Choi, Su Ja Hwang, In Soon Lee, Hyeon Ju Song, Sung You, Sang Gyu Kim, Hee Sun Um, Hae Soon Park, Murayama Ippei, Woo Sung Sim, Mi Ryeng Kim, Man Sik Choi, Sung Ha Chang, Ji Ryang Kim, Jun Kyu Park, Sung Hee Choi, Sang Won Park, Su Min Hwang, Min Seong Kang, Jeong Yup Chi, Ok Soo Park, Jung Eun Hong, Kuyug A Jung, Seong Nae Kim, Yeong Sook Shin, Jeong Sook Kang, Jeong Ae Park, Chang Weon Jang, Jum Soon Hwang, Jie Hee Rah Yun, Hye Young Lim, Jeong Soo Kim, Young Hee Cho, Eun Sik Kim, Hae Won Kim, Ji Woong Choi, Mi Hea Lee, Young Gu¡¡Kim, Hyun Kyung Jun, Young Ju Lee, Eun Ju Lim, Sun Hee Kim, Moon Sook Lee, Kyung Hee Yee, Furuhashi Aya, Young Kyeong Jeong, Kang, Ju Hye, Kim, Dong Hee, Young Mi Son, Ji Yeong Im, Seon Mi An, No Ja Yang, Jeong Whun Jo, Ah Dae Lee, Eun Jung Lee, Yeong Hwan Kim, Woo Li Choi, Mo Ran Koo, Hyun Mi Lee, Ga Ram Kang, Daisuke Kono,
Yeon Ju Oh, Seul Ki Yun, Mi Hye Jo, Ji Yeon Kim, Mori Yoshie, Chang Ho Ahn, Kwan Soon Ji, Sam Suk Kim, Chul Woo Lee, Ok Ryo Jo
Japanese participants ;
* From Tokyo
Kikue Takahashi, Shiba Yoko, Tsubokawa Hiroko, Nishino Rumiko, Takada Kimiko,
Shoji Rutsuko, Yamaguchi Akiko, Taba Sachiko, Kim puja, Shibasaki Haruko, Toeda Akiko, Shidara Yoshiko, Sato Chiyoko, Kimuro Shiho, Jong Hui Ja, Kim Sun Dok, Sin Chun Dae Ja, Kawami Kimiko, Omokawa Makoto, Ogasawara Nobumi, Ueda Sakiko, Watanabe Mina, Kitano Ryuichi, Kiyokawa Koji, Tsujii Miho,
Haruko Yoshikawa, A member of the House of Councilors, Japan
* From Kyoto
Asai Kiriko, Murakami Mai, Nakajima¡¡Syu, Makita Naoko,
* from Osaka
Yoshioka Noriko, Harada Keiko, Bang Chungja, Moon Nyonja, Nakagawa Kayoko, Nishimura Sumiko
* From Hiroshima
Tsuzuki Sumie, Taniguchi Kyoko
* From Saitama
Nobukawa Mitsuko, Sumiko Shimizu, Teraoka Shioko
* From Kanakawa
Koizumi Kiko, Kise Keiko
* From Hokkaido
Ito Michiko
* From Nakoya
Kuno Ayako
*From Kyushu
Takase Nahoko
*From Hyogo
Tanaka Hiromi, Iguchi Nariko
*From Kawasaki
Naganuma Setsuo, Japanese Journalist union
Australian Participants ; Friends of "Comfort Women" in Australia
Vivian Pak, Anna Song, Shin Joon Shik, Jik soon Koh
German Participants ;
Chung Noh Gross, Peace Women's Association in Germany
American Participants ;
Jonghwa Lee, a professor of Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California, USA
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