AsianSIL 101: (Episode 7) The History and Legacy of the 2000 Tokyo Women’s Tribunal


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Mar 25 2023 71 mins  

Dr Cheah W.L. (National University of Singapore) and her transitional justice class speaks with Indai Sajor based on her publication “Put Wrong on the Scafford and Truth on the Throne: The Women’s International War Crimes Tribunal” (Women’s Studies in Education, University of Toronto). Indai served as co-convener of the internationally recognized Women's International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan's Military Sexual Slavery, an international law landmark initiative that recognized sexual slavery as a crime against humanity. For a decade, she coordinated the comfort women networks of 9 countries that participated in the Tokyo Women’s Tribunal involving judges, lawyers, prosecutors, academics, activists and the comfort women. Indai has also worked with the United Nations and NGOs in countries in Asia-Pacific, Africa and the Middle East, in different professional capacities as a development, gender and humanitarian advisor.