Thanks to the efforts of women's groups around the world, the UN Commission on Human Rights has determined that Japan's comfort woman scheme was "a system of military sex slavery" that violated human rights as well as international laws prohibiting trafficking in women and children. The UN has classified the comfort women system as a war crime, and has demanded that Japan officially compensate the victims.
由於各國婦女團體的努力，聯合國人權的特別委員會已經確認日軍慰安婦是一種「軍事性奴隸制度」，侵犯人權並違反禁止販賣婦孺的國際法，足以構成戰爭犯罪，要求日本應對受害者進行國家賠償。