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Building a Memorial to the Comfort Women
On International Women's Day, recently retired judges Lillian Sing and Julie Tang will present the history of the "comfort women," a euphemism for the sexual slavery of hundreds of thousands of women and girls (whose death rate during enslavement was 87 percent) by the Japanese imperial government in 13 Asia-Pacific countries from 1931 to 1945. This history will be memorialized in the soon-to-be-installed “Comfort Women” Memorial in San Francisco. Judges Sing and Tang will review the 20th century history of war-time atrocities against women and also touch on current efforts to fight against modern-day sexual slavery.
MLF: Humanities
The Commonwealth Club of California
555 Post St.
San Francisco, 94102
United States
![Lillian Sing](https://cdn.commonwealthclub.org/s3fs-public/2017-02/Screen%20Shot%202017-02-03%20at%203.52.45%20PM.png)
Judge Lillian Sing
(Retired)
![Judge Julie Tang](https://cdn.commonwealthclub.org/s3fs-public/2017-02/Screen%20Shot%202017-02-03%20at%203.52.53%20PM.png)
Judge Julie Tang
(Retired)