Urging universities and higher education institutions to fight gender discrimination and racism
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Global feminists issued a statement criticizing Mark Ramsey, a Harvard Law School professor, who defined Japanese military comfort women victims as’contract prostitutes’.
On the 17th, the Justice and Memory Solidarity unveiled’the worldwide feminist statement on the thesis on Japanese military comfort women by Professor John Mark Ramsayer’ at the 1,479 regular demand protests.
According to Eui-yeon Eui-yeon, about 1,000 researchers and organizations at home and abroad participated in the statement by 5 pm the previous day. In the statement, professors such as Pei Pei Chu (Baseo University in New York, USA), Elizabeth Son (Northwestern University), Linda Hasnuma (Temple University), and Margaret Stetz (University of Delaware), who have studied the comfort women issue for a long time, also participated.
They expressed concern that Professor Ramsey’s thesis could be used to justify violence against women and the system of sexual slavery and sexual exploitation. They said, “We are following the Japanese government’s assertion of avoiding the responsibility for serious human rights violations committed in the Asian-Pacific War, without critical analysis.”
“A number of studies over the past 30 years, reports prepared by the UN Special Rapporteur and international organizations, and the Women’s International War Crimes Court in 2000 recognized that the nature of the Japanese military’comfort women’ is an organized sex slave system.” It is a second offense and an act that conspires with and justifies the Japanese government’s attempt to deliberately erase the history of violence.”
He added, “This statement is not intended to infringe on academic freedom, but to inform what it means to argue that follows a patriarchal/colonial perspective, instead of clarifying the structure of interlinked oppression.”
Finally, “I believe in the importance of research, knowledge, and education to contemplate history and modern injustice and make critical thinking.” He asked universities and higher education institutions around the world to speak critically of gender discrimination, colonialism, and racism. Urged. What they asked for was ▲Establishing guidelines for the campus community to reduce the damages of gender discrimination, colonialism, and racism, and encourage diversity and equality ▲ Active investigations on hate speech and behavior ▲ Disclosure of fund information supported by war criminals.
/ Reporter Han Min-gu [email protected]
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