NORTH CAROLINA JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AND COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS

The New INS Guidelines on Gender Persecution: Their Effect on Asylum in the United States for Women Fleeing the Forced Sterilization and Abortion Policies of the People's Republic of China

This article reviews the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) Guidelines on claims for asylum in the US due to gender-persecution and focuses especially on claims arising from population policies in China. The article discusses the UN definition of refugee and examines the impact which Canadian guidelines on gender-persecution claims have had upon those claiming asylum from China.

Seeking Justice for "Comfort" Women: Without an International Criminal Court, Suits Brought By World War II Sex Slaves of the Japanese Army May Find Their Best Hope of Success in U.S. Federal Courts

This comment provides a general background to the Japanese military's sex slave system of World War II. Part II discusses the comfort women ("Inafu") system of the Second World War, the paucity of legal cases for redress until the 1990s, and the responses of the Japanese government and the international community. Next, the comment provides an overview of the legal efforts on behalf of the military sexual slaves to seek redress in Japanese, U.S., and international fora.