Comfort women were Asian civilians that had been forced into sexual slavery during WWII. These were sexual slaves that were recruited specifically for the use of Japanese military- men.

Although the war ended over 60 years ago, these women have only recently gotten recognition, when 3 former Korean comfort women filed a class-action suit against the Japanese government.

Since then, movements have been formed that have fought for justice for comfort women, and V-Day joined this fight in 2006. The “Global V-Day Campaign for Justice to ‘Comfort Women’” was launched, and became the spotlight for V-Day 2006.