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| Film depicting horrors faced by comfort women for Japan army tops Korea box office | |  By Jee Heun Kahng SEOUL (Reuters) - A film based on the horrors experienced by "comfort women" in Japanese military brothels during World War Two, whose doubtful commercial appeal meant it took 14 years and the contributions of 75,000 individual donors to complete, is top of the box office in South Korea. Cho Jung-rae, who directed "Spirits' Homecoming", was inspired in 2002 to make the film when he saw the drawing "Burning Women", made during a therapy session at a shelter for elderly former comfort women by Kang Il-chul, who said she was taken away by Japanese soldiers when she was 16. The term comfort women is a euphemism for girls and women forced to work in wartime Japanese military brothels.
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| Vatican cardinal denies attempts to cover up child sex abuse | |  By Philip Pullella and Jane Wardell ROME/SYDNEY (Reuters) - A high-ranking Vatican official said on Wednesday he should have done more to stop the sexual abuse of children in the Catholic Church, acknowledging that he was told of at least one priest "misbehaving" with boys at an Australian school. Cardinal George Pell, the Vatican's treasurer, said he did nothing when a boy at a Christian Brothers school in rural Victoria state mentioned the behaviour "casually in conversation" in the mid-1970s. "With the experience of 40 years later, certainly I would agree that I should have done more," Pell said while giving evidence via video link from Rome to Australia's Royal Commission into Institutional Response to Child Sexual Abuse.
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| Japan ruling party to tackle 'taboo' of expanding foreign labour force | | | By Ami Miyazaki and Linda Sieg TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's ruling party kicks off a debate this month on whether to expand the pool of foreign workers to cope with a greying, shrinking population, challenging a longstanding "taboo" on immigration, the head of a new party panel said on Thursday. With demand for labour at its highest in 24 years, firms such as Subaru car maker Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd are turning to what is effectively a system of back-door immigration. "The question is how to ensure workers," Yoshio Kimura, a member of Abe's Liberal Democratic Party in parliament's upper house, told Reuters. |
| India's female scavengers enslaved by caste, gender discrimination | |  By Rina Chandran MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - New legislation in India to crack down on the practice of forcing mainly the poorest women to clear other people's excreta will have little impact unless deeply entrenched sexism and caste bias are changed, activists said. Manual scavenging, a euphemism for disposing of faeces from dry toilets and open drains by hand, has long been an occupation thrust upon members of the Dalit group, traditionally the lowest ranked in India's caste system. At least 90 percent of India's estimated 1.3 million manual scavengers are women, according to campaign group Jan Sahas.
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| U.N. mulls new measures to combat peacekeeper crimes | | | By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations is considering new measures to crack down on sexual abuse by peacekeepers, including local prosecutions and registering personal details on blue helmets to make it easier to identify perpetrators, a U.N. official said on Wednesday. In December an independent review panel accused the United Nations and its agencies of grossly mishandling allegations of child sexual abuse by foreign troops in CAR in 2013 and 2014. One of the problems, human rights groups say, is that it is up to U.N. troop-contributing countries to prosecute their soldiers accused of abuse. |
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