The U.N. Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on Friday strongly urged the Japanese government to draw up compensation measures for its wartime military mobilization of foreign women, mostly Korean, as "sex slaves."
The committee made the demand in a report adopted earlier in the day in Geneva that was itself a review of a relevant Japanese government report.
The committee's report said the Tokyo government was required to map out compensation measures via consultation with Japanese civic groups working on the comfort women issue.
In particular, the report pointed out that victims are not satisfied with a fund private Japanese groups are organizing to compensate the comfort women dubbed the Asia Women Fund.