KUNDGEBUNG: Enthüllung der Friedensstatue aus Korea

In the organizer's words:

With: Nataly Jung-Hwa Han (Korea Verband e.V., Berlin), Monika Hauser (medico mondiale, Cologne), Behshid Najafi (agisra e.V., Cologne)
Around 200,000 girls and women from Asia and the Pacific region were abducted into the military brothels of the Japanese armed forces during the Second World War. They were called comfort women by the Japanese. For decades, none of those affected spoke about their fate. It was not until 1991 that Kim Hak-Soon was the first to go public. Since then, every Wednesday there has been a demonstration by former "comfort women" in front of the Japanese embassy in the Korean capital Seoul, demanding apologies and compensation for Japanese war crimes.

The 1000th demonstration took place there in 2011. To mark the occasion, a sculpture of an underage girl was erected: the PEACE STATUE - designed by the Korean artist couple Kim Seo-Kyung and Kim Eun-Sung. Copies of it have since been erected in Australia, the USA, Canada and Europe and now also in front of the NS-DOK in Cologne during the exhibition period.

At the unveiling, Nataly Jung-Hwa Han will provide information about the historical background, Monika Hauser about sexualized violence in current wars and Behshid Najafi about women who are on the run as a result.

In cooperation with: Amt für Gleichstellung von Frauen und Männern der Stadt Köln; Korea Verband e.V. (Berlin); Stiftung Asienhaus (Cologne); philippinenbüro e.V. (Cologne); Philippine Women's Forum Germany e.V. / Babaylan Europe (Cologne); medica mondiale (Cologne); agisra e.V. (information and advice center for migrant and refugee women in Cologne); Frauen gegen Erwerbslosigkeit (Cologne); Paula e.V. (Cologne)

The statue will be unveiled as part of the exhibition " The Third World in the Second World War". www.3www2.de