"It's more than a feeling of awkwardness, it's a feeling of degradation and humiliation as our history, which is the world's history, is constantly being refuted and dismissed and this affects us so very deeply, to the point that lately living here has become more uncomfortable."
Pope Francis on Thursday overturned centuries of tradition that banned women from a foot-washing service during Lent, upsetting conservatives and delighting women's rights activists.
South Korea's foreign ministry on Tuesday refuted the comments by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe who denied the "forced" recruitment of Korean women as sex slaves during World War II.
Survey co-authored by Trae Vassallo, who testified in the Ellen Pao case, found that for women in tech and venture capital gender discrimination is common.
Activists fighting for rights of"comfort women"rallied Wednesday around Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's official residence demanding that the government properly handle the historical issue, rather than using money to made a deal over the country's wartime wrongdoing.
As Japan and South Korea agreed to settle the long-standing "comfort women" issue between the two sides, more sincerity and actions are needed from Tokyo to better resolve the sensitive historical matter.
In August 1910, the Empire of Japan formally annexed what had once been the sovereign nation of Korea. It is only now, over a century later, that Japan and Korea have formally reconciled one of the darkest legacies of that era: the 1930s and '40s recruitment of Korean women and girls as sex slaves known as "comfort women."
South Korea and Japan reached a final, irreversible agreement on Japan's wartime sex slavery of Korean women, but complaints remained as Seoul failed to extract Tokyo's acknowledgement of "legal" responsibility for the war crime.
South Korea and Japan on Monday reached an agreement on Japan's wartime sexual slavery of Korean women during World War II as Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made an official apology for the atrocities.
Senior diplomats of South Korea and Japan met in Seoul on Sunday to discuss Japan's wartime sex slavery of Korean women, a long-running issue which has prevented the bilateral ties from improving.
More than 80 Canadian women have signed a letter to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, urging him to work to ensure that the new process of selecting nominees to the Senate of Canada could produce a gender-equal Senate.
South Korea and Japan will hold a director general-level meeting next week in Tokyo to discuss issues on Japan's sex enslavement of Korean women during World War II, Seoul's foreign ministry said Friday.
Women in Saudi Arabia will be voting and standing for office for the first time in the oil monarchy's municipal elections this weekend.Around 900 women will be standing among 7,000 people vying for seats on the county's 284 local councils.
The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) on Thursday said that the health needs of women and adolescents are too often neglected in humanitarian response to natural disasters and conflicts around the world, calling for a fundamental change to address women's health in conflicts and disasters.
A memorial for "comfort women" during World War II opened to the public in east China's Jiangsu Province on Tuesday.
A Japanese citizens group on Nov. 18 submitted an “emergency request” to the government to provide official compensation and apologize to former “comfort women” for Japan’s wartime actions.
Riding motorcycle-taxis can be tricky for Muslim women who are not allowed to ride with men they are not married to, according to Islamic Law. But a new on-demand service in Indonesia is ready to solve that problem.
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