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• 2019 Kim Bok-dong Peace Prize honors Kosovo Survivor Vasfije Krasniqi-Goodman ?2019 Kim Bok-dong Peace Prize honors Kosovo survivor Vasfije Krasniqi-Goodman? The Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance for the Issues of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan (The Korean Council) has selected Kosovo survivor Vasfije Krasniqi-Goodman as the winner of 2019 Kim Bok-dong Peace Prize. Kim Bok-dong Peace Prize honors individuals or organizations that have been engaged in the movement to resolve the wartime sexual violence issue and ensure wo 2019년 5월 10일
• Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict Week (June 17-19) Seoul, South Korea [Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict Week ??] June 17-19, 2019 Seoul South Korea Participate in the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict Week for resolution of the Japanese military sexual slavery and sexual violence in conflict! Stand in solidarity with survivors and join the movement for a peaceful world without war and violence against women! -RSVP at https://bit.ly/2Dzon2b -E-mail or Donate to the Korean Council at [email protected]! 2019년 4월 26일
• REMED REPORT FOR DEC 2018-FEB 2019 REMED, an organization in DR Congo that the Korean Council supports through Butterfly Fund has built a training center for the victims called “Centre d’encadrement des femmes et filles victime dela violence." On January 11th, the first sewing machine training was attended by 63 trainees who were girl-mothers (girls who became pregnant and gave birth due to sexual violence by the armed rebel groups) 2019년 4월 8일
• Golden Women Vision in Uganda Report for Dec 2018-Feb 2019 2019년 3월 19일
• Call for Nominations for the 2019 Kim Bok-dong Peace Prize The Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance for the Issues of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan (The Korean Council) calls for nominations of individuals or organizations for the 2019 Kim Bok-dong Peace Prize. Kim Bok-dong Peace Prize honors individuals or organizations that have been engaged in the movement to resolve the issue of sexual violence in armed conflict and ensure women’s human rights in 2019년 3월 12일
• Wend Africa's 2018 The Butterfly Fund support Wend Africa, which is a social enterprise that employs LRA survivors to ensure the women’s economic empowerment and promotion of the violence by the LRA during over 20 years of conflict in Uganda. Take a look at Wend Africa’s 2018 on the Wend Africa website and get to know the people who work to create a change: https://www.wendafrica.com/post/2018recap?utm_campaign=1bcc6337-97ae-47f4-b889-e3c1cdb15849&utm_source=so 2019년 3월 11일
• Donation from Les Papillons(Vietnam) Subin Sim, a student at an international school in Vietnam, learned about the Japanese military sexual slavery issue and the victims of sexual violence by the Korean military during the U.S. War in Vietnam through reading the book 25 Years of Wednesdays. In order to stand in solidarity with the victims of both issues, she and members from Les Papillons (a group for Korean students attending international schools) created badges representing the Japanese military ‘comfort women’ victims and sold them to people from the school and the neighborhood for 50,000VND (approximately 2500KRW). 2019년 3월 4일
• Obituary for Gwak Ye-nam Halmoni 11am, March 2nd, 2019, Gwak Ye-nam halmoni from Damyang, South Jeolla Province passed away, leaving only 22 survivors of Japanese military sexual slavery. Gwak Ye-nam halmoni was born in Damyang, South Jeolla Province in 1925 as the third daughter of a family with two sons and four daughters. She married to avoid the Japanese military’s draft of unmarried girls. Yet 2~3 months after her marriage, her sister-in-law was in the 2019년 3월 2일
• Poet Emily Jungmin Yoon Donates to the Korean Council A debut poet, Emily Jungmin Yoon wrote about the experiences of the Japanese military sexual slavery victims. A Cruelty Special to Our Species, captured the readers through Emily Jungmin Yoon’s own “experience of ‘intertwined languages’ and the postwar Korean diaspora” as described in the New York Times : https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/13/books/review/cruelty-special-to-our-species-emily-jungmin-yoon.html In addition to using poetry to help the readers communicate with the victims, Emily Jungmin Yoon organized a fundraising campaign with her readers through Twitter : https://twitter. 2019년 2월 8일
• Obituary for Kim Bok-dong Halmoni We will continue on the path to peace and human rights that Kim Bok-dong halmoni walked. We pray that the path of a hero who did not give up on peace is remembered by our future generation and leads to a peaceful world. <Citizens’ Funeral Schedule for late Kim Bok-dong halmoni> 1. Funeral home: Sinchon Severance Hospital B1F Special Room 1 2. Commemoration: -7pm January 29 Peace Butterfly Network -7pm 2019년 1월 29일
• Obituary for Lee OO Halmoni Lee OO halmoni passed away at 7:30am on January 28, 2019. She was born in 1925. Around 1942 when she was 17 years old, she was heading home from her work at a textile factory with two colleagues. Then they were abducted by two soldiers who rode the military truck. There were several women who were on the truck already. Together with 10~15 women who were on the other truck, they were all forced to board a ship to Shimonoseki, Japan. 2019년 1월 28일
• Yearly Newspaper of the Korean Council, No. 28 (2018) 2019년 1월 23일