To learn more about the Women’s Tribunal Feminist Collective, please visit their website at: https://wiwct.org.
The Women’s Tribunal Feminist Collective will focus on design, research and
arrangement of an official interactive website for the Women’s International War Crimes
Tribunal, and chart the blueprint for writing its history.
The WIWCT website, in its initial stage, will make documents and other materials far
more accessible, and will contribute to the global campaign against sexual violence
crimes, crating a repository of information that can be used for research, advocacy and
future legal proceedings.
The strategic prominence of a WIWCT website and book project lies in its historic ability
for civil society to lead, address, redress, and advocate for justice for crimes against
women during war and armed conflict – contributing to guidance on movement-building
to assist victims/survivors of war.
The story of the Comfort Women is central to this initiative. These are all (and those
who have passed now) Grandmothers, in their 70s and 80s when they came out into the
open to name what had happened to them, the sexual slavery they endured during
WWII, the horrendous suffering they endured, and their call for justice to the
government of Japan.
This project will make their stories visible and ensure that their names are remembered,
and so people can learn from the agony of their enslavement and the redress that they
fought for and won. It is an inspiring call to action for other women who face sexual
violence as a strategy of war, and it elevates the voices and courage of older women –
grandmothers – who chose to come out of the shadows and struggle for justice.