Date : 2020.11.12

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