Meeting with and embracing three former "comfort women," Al Hussein, the U.N High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad promised to do all he could to help with their fight for justice. Despite predicted backlash from Japan, Hussein promised to keep in touch with the three women and to speak of the plight of comfort women at an upcoming news conference. 

"I cannot think of three more important people to meet in Seoul than these three very courageous, frail, and quite old, but still very passionate about what they went through, the suffering and caring for others who suffer still in so many other parts of the world," he said of the women, also calling them "the most important people to meet in Seoul."

"Comfort women" is a euphemistic term used to describe victims who were forced into Japan's wartime sexual slavery. These women are continuing to fight for an apology from the Japanese government, which continues to avoid taking responsibility for such actions. Only 50 former comfort women are still alive, with all of them at an elderly age.