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The international human rights community recognized that the system of military sexual slavery by Japan was a serious violation of the international laws and recommended that the Japanese government make an official apology and provide legal compensation to the victims of sexual slavery (Special Rapporteur on violence against women of the UN Commission on Human Rights, 1996; Special Rapporteur on systematic rape, sexual slavery and slavery-like practices of the UN Sub-Commission on Human Rights, 1998; ILO Committee of Experts on the Application of Standards and Conventions, 1999; Women's International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan's Military Sexual Slavery, 2000). The Japanese government, however, has been ignoring these recommendations and avoiding its legal responsibilities. The "atonement money" offered by the Asian Women's Fund is not a proper solution, since the majority of the victims of the Japanese Military Sexual Slavery rejected it.
We, the undersigned, sincerely request that in the year 2005, the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II, the UN and the ILO strongly urge the Japanese government to finally comply with the international community's recommendations and come up with an official apology and legal compensation to the victims of sexual slavery. We oppose Japan's joining in the UN Security Council as a permanent member. Without solving the issues of Military Sexual Slavery and other war crimes, Japan is not qualified to be a permanent member of the UN S.C.
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