Reports from the United Nations and other organizations that discuss the “comfort women” issue and the role of the Japanese government in creating a large-scale institution of sexual slavery.

UN Reports

• 1996 UN Human Rights Commission Report by Radhika Coomaraswamy
• 1998 UN Human Rights Commission Report by Gay J. McDougall
• 2018 UN Human Rights Commission Committee on the Elimination of the Racial Discrimination, Concluding Observations on the combined tenth and eleventh periodic reports of Japan (See page 6, paragraph 27 and 27 for the ‘Comfort Women’)

NGO Reports

• 2013 – Resolutions on the “Comfort Women” Issue Adopted by Foreign and Domestic Assemblies. Prepared by Women’s Active Museum on War and Peace (WAM).
• 2014 NGO Report for Human Rights Committee, WAM.
• 2014 – Compilation of Recommendations by the UN Human Rights Bodies on the “Comfort Women” Issue, WAM.
• 2014 – Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations, WAM.
• Global Call for Renegotiation of 2015 “Comfort Women” Agreement, signed by several groups worldwide
• 2017 NGO Report for Human Rights Committee, WAM.
• 2018 NGO Report for Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, WAM.

Historical Documents

• Information on Nuremberg and Tokyo War Crimes Trials, 1945-1948. Office of the Historian, US Dept. of State.
• Proclamation of International Military Tribunal for the Far East. Signed by Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers in Tokyo, 1946.
• Treaty of San Francisco, Sept. 8, 1951.
• 1968 Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity

Expert and Scholastic Documents

• “Sexual Slavery and the Comfort Women of World War II,” Carmen M. Argibay (2003).
• Testimony in support of HR 121 Prepared by Mindy L. Kotler, Director of Asia Policy Point
• Fact Sheet on Japanese Military “Comfort Women,” Japan Focus (2015).
• “Comfort Women” Denier Talking Points Debunked,” Japan-U.S.  Feminist Network for Decolonization (FeND).
• Map of Japanese “Comfort Stations,” by WAM.

Glendale Lawsuit – major court documents

• Gingery v. City of Glendale Federal Lawsuit – Copy of complaint
• 9th Circuit Court decision
• Brief for the Government of Japan submitted to the US Supreme Court as amicus curiae supporting petitioners on February 22, 2017
• US Supreme Court declined to hear the case, finalizing the District Court decision that dismissed the case.