Civic groups call for UNESCO listing of comfort women documents

SEOUL - A coalition of civic groups on Sunday urged UNESCO to swiftly move forward with a long-stalled bid to list documents related to Japan's wartime sexual slavery of women on its Memory of the World Register.In May 2016, civic groups from 8 countries, including South Korea and China, made an official request for the UNESCO listing of documents related to women, mostly Koreans, forced into sexual slavery for Japanese troops during World War II.The documents, submitted under the title "Voices of the Comfort Women," include victims' testimonies and other materials related to the wartime se…READ FULL ARTICLE