Comfort women fund launched in S. Korea

Comfort women fund launched in S. Korea

Members of civil groups stage a protest in Seoul on July 28, 2016 against the launch of the Reconciliation and Healing Foundation. Claiming that the fund to provide support to former comfort women was set up under an agreement between South Korea and Japan without hearing voices of the victims, the members sought the nullification of the deal. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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