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JAPAN: Request of a country visit to Japan by UN Special Rapporteurs with the aim of fact-finding missions on the human rights situations affected by the East Japan Earthquake and the Fukushima First Nuclear Plants accidents 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following open letter from a coalition of Japanese NGOs to UN Special Rapporteurs regarding the human rights situati...

UPDATE (Japan): Call for On-line petition for a justice of a man sentenced to death row by false accusation

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to you to call special attention to the on-line petition for  justice to Mr. Kazuo Ishikawa who was originally sentenced to death by ...

JAPAN: Launch of Japanese Mailing Lists (in Japanese)

27 June 2006 AA-004-2006 A Special Announcement by the Asian Human Rights Commission JAPAN: Launch of Japanese Mailing Lists 日本語でのメーリングリストをはじめました アジアン...

NEPAL: Proposed code of conduct an attempt to suppress civil society

A code of conduct for non-governmental organizations is currently being discussed in Nepal. Such a code, if put in place, will serve to drastically curtail the freedom of civil groups to engage in ind...

JAPAN: PM to visit Yasakuni war dead shrine

The Japanese Prime Minister, Koizumi Junichiro, has vowed to visit to the Yasakuni Shrine - which is dedicated to Japan's war dead, including convicted war criminals - this Wednesday, August 15, which...

JAPAN: Re-writing of history books

We are forwarding you an appeal from 12 Bishops of Japan, who are protesting the revision of history text-books. The newly approved texts give a positive view of Japan’s past, colonial invasion ...