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	Human rights - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		These rights commonly include the right to life, the right to an adequate standard of living, freedom from torture and other mistreatment, freedom of religion and of expression, freedom of movement, the right to self-determination, the right to education, and the right to participation in cultural and political life.
		The roots of the notion of human rights are seen in ancient philosophy concerning the role of the individual in the state, but principles of civil and political rights stem from liberal freedoms advocated by John Stuart Mill in On Liberty.
		Rights may also be non-derogable (not limited in times of national emergency); these often include the right to life, the right to be prosecuted only according to the laws that are in existence at the time of the offense, the right to be free from slavery, and the right to be free from torture.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Human_rights (2513 words)

	Human rights in Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Japan also practices the death penalty which is not objected to by the U.N. but is objected to by several prominent NGO and European Union.
		Human rights organizations reported that lawyers also were not told of an execution until after the fact and that death row prisoners were held for years in solitary confinement with little contact with anyone but prison guards.
		By law, aliens with 5 years of continuous residence are eligible for naturalization and citizenship rights, including the right to vote; however, in practice, most eligible aliens choose not to apply for citizenship, partly due to fears that their cultural identity would be lost.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Human_rights_in_Japan (8730 words)

	HRW World Report 1999: Japan: Human Rights Developments
		Japan continued to refuse to grant asylum to refugees, though refugees from Burma were still allowed to stay legally in Japan on a temporary basis.
		The Ministry of Foreign Affairs marked the fiftieth anniversary of the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights by holding its third symposium on human rights in the Asia-Pacific Region (January 27-28), with Mary Robinson, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, as the keynote speaker.
		Japan continued to voice its commitment to use ODA to promote democratization and human rights but also stressed “positive linkage,” the use of aid as an incentive, for example the effort to encourage free market reforms in Vietnam, over “negative linkage” such as aid suspension in the case of Nigeria.
	www.hrw.org /worldreport99/asia/japan.html (699 words)

	1995 Human Rights Report: JAPAN
		A well-organized and disciplined police force generally respects the human rights of the populace and is firmly under the control of the civil authorities.
		Section 3 Respect for Political Rights: The Right of Citizens to Change Their Government Citizens have the right peacefully to change their government and are able to exercise this right in practice through frequent, free, and fair elections on the basis of universal suffrage by secret ballot.
		Japan has no national law protecting the rights of the disabled, including access and employment, but some prefectures and cities have enacted their own legislation addressing the issue.
	dosfan.lib.uic.edu /ERC/democracy/1995_hrp_report/95hrp_report_eap/Japan.html (4983 words)

	The Constitution of Japan and Human Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In addition, the Judiciary in Japan, which is vested the power to determine the constitutionality of any law, order, regulation or official act under the Constitution, as remained so weak and passive that it failed to keep the Executive and the Legislature from abusing their power against people.
		Although Japan is a party of Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, it is reported that the average wage of women workers is about half that of men, and discrimination in both hiring and promotion grows worse under recent economic recession.
		However, not only does Japan fail to consider environmental issues and human rights when granting aid, but also Japanese ODA has been criticized for not meeting the needs of the people in recipient countries and for instead being a cause of military budget expansion, human rights violations, and environmental destruction.
	www.ahrchk.net /charter/mainfile.php/east/3?print=yes (2852 words)

	Japan: Now is the time to show leadership on human rights - news.amnesty - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Its approach to human rights must stop being cautious abroad and conservative at home, said Amnesty International’s Secretary General Irene Khan concluding her five-day mission to Tokyo.
		"Japan’s ambition to become a permanent member of the UN Security Council must be underpinned by an equally strong determination to deliver on its human rights obligations," concluded Ms Khan.
		During her five-day mission to Japan, Irene Khan met with Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda, Minister of Justice Chieko Nono, senior officials in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the President of the Japan International Cooperation Agency Sadako Ogata, Diet members, the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, corporate leaders, local NGOs, diplomats and academics.
	news.amnesty.org /index/ENGASA220082005 (639 words)

	PPP 13/12: Human rights, UN and Japan
		Moreover, as was shown by the fact that this resolution was adopted without a vote, the international community has noted improvements in the human rights situation in Cambodia, for example with the generally peaceful conclusion of the general elections held in July 2003.
		As far as Japan is concerned, we, as a member of the UN, continue to follow closely the human rights situation in Cambodia, based on this resolution.
		Japan is also assisting with the establishment of the Extraordinary Chambers for the Khmer Rouge Tribunal and we are considering providing contributions in the form of financial aid and technical assistance.
	www.phnompenhpost.com /TXT/letters/l1312-1.htm (551 words)

	1997 Human Rights Reports: Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Commission's 5-year mandate is to develop measures to educate citizens with regard to human rights ideals, and to promote measures to ameliorate the effects of existing human rights violations.
		Citizens have the right to travel freely both within Japan and abroad, to change their place of residence, to emigrate, and to repatriate voluntarily.
		Citizens have the right peacefully to change their government and are able to exercise this right in practice through frequent, free, and fair elections on the basis of universal suffrage by secret ballot.
	www.usemb.se /human/human97/japan.html (8083 words)

	Privacy and Human Rights 2003: Japan
		Japan's Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPT) announced plans in June 1998 to study privacy in telecommunications services, establishing a study group to look into the matter.
		Japan is a member of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and a signatory to the OECD Guidelines on Privacy and Transborder Data Flows.
		Japan participated as a non-member observer country in the negotiations on the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime and signed the Convention in November 2001.
	www.privacyinternational.org /survey/phr2003/countries/japan.htm (3113 words)

	1996 Human Rights Report: Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, January 30, 1997.
		The bar associations and human rights groups have criticized the practice of "substitute detention." Although the law stipulates that suspects should be held in "houses of detention" between arrest and sentencing, a police detention facility may be substituted at the order of the court.
		Despite improvements in Japan's legal safeguards against discrimination, Korean permanent residents (most of whom were born, raised, and educated in Japan and who are estimated to number approximately 700,000) are still subject to various forms of deeply entrenched societal discrimination.
	www.usemb.se /human/human96/japan.html (5262 words)

	Human Rights Watch: Asia : Japan
		Human Rights Watch calls on international donors meeting in Tokyo to ensure that the promotion of human rights is given a central place in reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan.
		Prisoners in Japan face routine violations of human rights from the moment of arrest through the end of their prison term.
		Human Rights Watch calls on the Japanese government to bring its treatment of prisoners into line with the international human rights law by which the country is bound and acknowledge that prisoners have both obligations and rights.
	hrw.org /doc?t=asia&c=japan (1143 words)

	Human Rights in Japan (Page 3 of 4)
		The Human Rights Committee made little distinction between the treatment of detainees held prior to deportation in immigration cases, and Japanese nationals detained in prisons.
		Many of the Committee members who follow case law in Japan stated that what few cases there are invoking the Covenant have been decided with a complete lack of understanding of the mechanics and spirit of the Covenant.
		Judges in Japan enjoy the power to decide on the place of detention, and are required to issue the warrants, except in cases of flagrant offenses.
	www.zmag.org /Japan/Labor/Rights3.html (1132 words)

	AllRefer.com - Japan - Human Rights \| Japanese Information Resource
		Compared with most of its Asian neighbors and countries in most other parts of the world, Japan's record on human rights is commendable, if not exemplary.
		Human rights have also become an issue because of the police practice of obtaining confessions from criminal suspects.
		The greatest controversy concerning human rights, however, focuses on the social and legal treatment of minorities.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/japan/japan217.html (641 words)

	Japan
		Japan is a parliamentary democracy based on its 1947 Constitution.
		The Government generally respected the human rights of its citizens; however, there were problems in some areas.
		According to Ministry of Justice (MOJ) figures, the Legal Affairs Bureau offices and civil liberties volunteers dealt with 359,971 human rights related complaints and 18,786 reports of suspected human rights violations during 2003.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2004/41644.htm (8399 words)

	Terralingua -- Sign Languages, and How the Deaf (and other Sign language users) are Deprived of their Linguistic Human ...
		Human rights, especially economic and social rights, are, according to human rights lawyer Katarina Toma_evski (1996: 104), to act as correctives to the free market.
		The purpose of international human rights law is...to overrule the law of supply and demand and remove price tags from people and from necessities for their survival.
		So far, human rights instruments and discussions about both them and about educational language rights have not even started addressing these big questions in a coherent way where all types of ecology would be discussed within an integrated political and economic framework.
	www.terralingua.org /DeafHR.html (6711 words)

	Human Rights in Japan (Page 4 of 4)
		Such a mindset cannot promote human rights if there is no acknowledgment that minority groups exist, having rights that need protection.
		The Government pointed out that a Civil Liberties Commission exists to investigate violations of human rights and promote human rights understanding, but after further inquiry, it was learned that this body of investigators was voluntary and had no real power to affect any kind of change.
		The Police are given training in human rights, and are guided by their superiors.
	www.zmag.org /Japan/Labor/Rights4.html (833 words)

	Human Rights Organizations in Japan
		An English-Japanese interpreter is available at their office to assist on Tuesday and Thursdays, 13:30 to 15:30, at: The Human Rights Counselling Centre, Civil Liberties Department, Tokyo Legal Affairs Bureau, 4th Floor, 2nd Kudan Common Government Office (Kudan Dai-ni Godo Chosha), 1-15, Kudanminami, 1-chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo.
		They focus on the social welfare issues of children, striving to come to the aid of those that are entangled in difficult issues such as social welfare and human rights involving multiple countries.
		The Human Rights Counseling Center for Foreigners (Tokyo Legal Affairs Bureau) has branches in several cities in Japan.
	www.crnjapan.com /otherorgs/en/human_rights.html (422 words)

	UN Dispatch: Human Rights Archives
		The UN Human Rights Commission report, due to be published this week, concludes that Washington should put the 520 detainees on trial or release them.
		Louise Arbour, the United Nations' high commissioner for human rights, wrote that victims are routinely subjected to humiliating treatment at the hands of the authorities if they say they have been raped.
		"With human rights observance being one of the central goals of the United Nations, Human Rights High Commissioner Louise Arbour today outlined a strategic vision for the future and called for tools to increase her office's global leadership and its engagement with individual countries.
	www.undispatch.com /archives/human_rights (1480 words)

	Human Rights Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Human Rights Bibliography: United Nations Documents and Publications, 1980-1990 (compiled by the United Nations Library, Geneva, in cooperation with the Centre for Human Rights), K3236.H863 1993 at Classified Stacks.
		Human Rights at the UW The website for the University of Washington’s Human Rights Education and Research Network, http://depts.washington.edu/hrights/, includes several research guides, some tailored to materials available at the UW:
		Women’s Human Rights Resources, http://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/diana/mainpage.htm, part of the DIANA project, includes a searchable database with annotations of articles, chapters in books, and reports.
	lib.law.washington.edu /ref/humanrights.shtml (8487 words)

	MOFA: Human Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Concluding Observations of the Human Rights Committee (November 1998)
		Shinichi Kitaoka, Deputy Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations, on Agenda item 105(b): Human rights questions, including alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms, and Agenda item 105(c): Human rights situations and reports of special rapporteurs and representatives (October 2004)
		Statement by H.E. Ambassador Toshiro Ozawa, Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations, at the Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly, on Agenda Item 48, Fifty-fifth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Agenda Item 117(d), Comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action (December 2003)
	www.mofa.go.jp /policy/human (1136 words)

	On International Human Rights Day, Japan Falun Dafa Practitioners Participate in Amnesty International Parade \| ...
		On December 8, 2002, Japan Falun Dafa practitioners participated in a parade sponsored by the Amnesty International (Japan branch) with the theme of "Stop violence, Safeguard human rights," to expose Chinese dictator Jiang's trampling upon human rights and brutally persecuting Falun Gong.
		The basis of human society is human rights.
		Kitashima introduced to the participating groups and the media about the fact that Falun Gong is a cultivation practise of both body and mind, based on the characteristic of the universe "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance," and that Falun Gong has been warmly received by the world's people.
	www.clearharmony.net /articles/200212/8832.html (447 words)

	Derechos Human Rights Links: Japan
		For the Record (UN documents on human rights in Japan): 2003
		Japan International Center for the Rights of the Child, JICRC
		US State Department Human Rights reports on Japan: 2002
	www.derechos.net /links/geo/asia/japan.html (82 words)

	Human & Con. Rights, Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Located in Eastern Asia, Japan is an island chain situated between the North Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan, east of the Korean peninsula
		Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights: Japan
		US State Department Human Rights reports on Japan: 2004
	www.hrcr.org /national/g_k/Text/japan.html (66 words)

	Stanford JGuide - Japan > Discrimination & Human Rights
		Aimed to eliminate all forms of discrimination, particularly Buraku problem in Japan.
		Web edition of 1975-76 essay on ethnic and social minorities in Japan, including references.
		Detailed account of one of the first major racial discrimination lawsuits in Japan.
	jguide.stanford.edu /site/human_rights_3162.html (130 words)

	MIGS: The Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies
		Berit Reisel’s leadership and vision led the Government of Norway to restore assets stolen from the Norwegian Jewish community and to establish the Norwegian Holocaust History Museum and the Centre for the Study of the Holocaust and Religious Minorities in Norway.
		While in Ottawa, she served in several divisions, including general relations with Japan, Central and Eastern Europe, and most recently was Deputy Director of the United Nations Division.
		FRANK CHALK is Associate Professor of History at Concordia University and a founding Co-Director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies.
	migs.concordia.ca /fridays.html (4134 words)

	HUMAN RIGHTS REPORTING: Primary Web Resources
		Journalists and others interested in human rights reporting will find challenging examples in the work done by journalism students at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.
		Human Rights Watch: war in Iraq and international humanitarian law
		Major national and international human rights groups such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch join in May 2004 to urge changed American policies toward Iraq prisoners.
	www.worldlymind.org /primary.htm (1363 words)

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