Parliament lesson for school pupils (From Daily Echo)

Parliament lesson for school pupils

6:49am Thursday 30th July 2009 in

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PUPILS at Perins School in Alresford got an insight into how Parliament works after meeting a prospective MP for Winchester.

The Year 9 students presented a case to Liberal Democrat Martin Tod to begin an Early Day Motion on the issue of Japanese Comfort Women.

He told the youngsters how the motions work and discussed the possibility of putting the issue forward during the next session of Parliament.

The pupils want the issue written into the curriculum so that more people are made aware of what happened.

The term “Comfort Women” is a euphemism for women forced into working in brothels by the Japanese military during the Second World War. It is estimated more than 200,000 women were involved.