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Japan: Joint NGO report to UN Human Rights Committee on the state of racial discrimination

November 12, 2020

For the consideration of the 7th periodic report of Japan by the UN Human Rights Committee (CCPR), the Japan NGO Network for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (ERD Net) submitted a joint NGO report on the situation of indigenous peoples, minorities and migrants in the country. IMADR works as the Secretariat of ERD Net.

Download the report – Part I , Part II

Part I

  • Ratification of the 1st Optional Protocol
  • Establishment of national human rights institution
  • Comprehensive law on anti-racial discrimination
  • Hate speech
  • Buraku discrimination
  • Gender-based violence against migrant women
  • Trafficking in persons
  • Technical intern training
  • Treatment of aliens, including refugees and asylum seekers
  • Arbitrary deprivation of liberty of a human rights defender in Okinawa

Part II

  • Right to participate in local politics
  • Rights of minorities – Ryukyus as indigenous
  • Rights of minorities – Exclusion of Korean high school students
  • Discrimination against minorities under the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Exclusion of tuition-free measures to preschool facilities
  • Minority status and rights of ethnic Korean residents
  • Right of re-entry to Japan of ethnic Korean residents
  • Denial of the right to ethnic education
  • Restriction on the appointment of foreign nationals as local governmental employees
  • Discrimination in the appointment of foreign nationals as teacher
  • Exclusion of older ethnic Korean residents from the pension system
  • Equality before the law – racial profiling
  • Unequal treatment of migrants in the emergency measures
  • Unequal treatment of migrants at the border in the COVID-19 pandemic
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