U.N. Human Rights Body Orders Japan to Compensate World War II Sex Slaves While New Class Action Brought against Japanese Companies in New Mexico by U.S. War Slave Laborers (XIIE)

On August 26, 1999, the United Nations Subcommission on Human Rights rejected Japan’s reasons for denying government compensation to women pressed into service as sex slaves for the Japanese military during World War II. Meanwhile, on September 14, 1999, a class action was brought by former U.S. prisoners of war against Japanese companies for slave labor practices...[more]