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NEWS & LETTERS, August-September 2001 Korean women who were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese during World War II joined other protesters in a rally, July 9, at the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, South Korea. Riot police pushed back the angry demonstrators who were demanding the recall of Japanese history textbooks that gloss over wartime atrocities and omit any mention of the enslavement of tens of thousands of women in Japan's occupied territories. * * * In the July issue of NEWS & LETTERS, we inadvertently omitted one of the six recipients of the new UN Millenium Peace Prize for women. Women in Black is a worldwide network of courageous women demonstrating against war, violence and militarism, often under great danger to themselves. It was started in Israel in 1988 by American, Israeli and Palestinian women to protest against Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, and now operates internationally. * * * More than 300 activists from all over the United States came to Washington, D.C. in May to participate in the first national Conference on Gender. Representing different ages, races, economic status, gender identity and sexual orientation, they met to discuss a united movement focusing on fighting against gender-based discrimination widely defined. Calling gender a civil rights issue, they supported a "revolution of the obvious" to liberate women, gays and lesbians, transgender and intersex persons, and all people whose gender does not conform to society's norms. |
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