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Severe working conditions for Olympic construction: Human Rights Now’s...
Working environment at Olympic construction sites Currently, plans have been made to postpone the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. In the summer of 2019, Human Rights Now (HRN), a Tokyo-based...
View ArticleHRN Submits Joint Report with ‘Sounds of the Silenced’ to the UN Human Rights...
On 22 April 2020, Human Rights Now (HRN) and Sounds of the Silenced (SOS) co-submitted a shadow report to the United Nations Human Rights Committee for its 129th Session concerning the implementation...
View ArticleA Call for Human Rights Guarantees in Measures to Prevent the Spread of Novel...
Human Rights Now has released a statement calling for human rights guarantees in measures passed in Japan to prevent the spread of novel coronavirus infections. It calls for appropriate compensation...
View ArticleHRN Releases a Statement: “The Government of China Must Immediately End Its...
HRN has released a statement calling on the government of China to immediately end its campaign of mass detentions, abuse, forced labor, and destruction of Muslim culture in Xinjiang, China. The...
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2020 Summer English Discussion Course on “Core Human Rights”
Human Rights Now is hosting an eikaiwa discussion course from 11 June 2020 to 3 Sept. 2020 titled “Core Human Rights”. This course will have two sessions for each topic. This allows more time for...
View ArticleHRN Releases a Written Statement on Coronavirus for the 44th Session of the...
Human Rights Now has submitted a written statement on coronavirus to the 44th UN Human Rights Council session, which will be start in June 2020, titled “Governments Must Respect and Protect Rights in...
View ArticleHRN Releases a Written Statement on Olympic Construction for the 44th Session...
Human Rights Now has submitted a written statement on Olympic construction to the 44th UN Human Rights Council session, which will be start in June 2020, titled “The Government of Japan Must Address...
View ArticleHRN Releases a Statement on Hong Kong: “The Government of China Cannot Pass...
Human Rights Now (HRN) has released a statement expressing our deep concern with the recent Draft Decision of China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) to enact national security legislation for Hong...
View ArticleHRN Releases a Statement, “United States Authorities Must Listen to the...
HRN has released a statement on the mass protests against racial injustice occurring in over 750 cities in the US and in over 50 other countries following the shocking murder of George Floyd, a black...
View ArticleHRN Releases a Statement: “Israel’s Plan to Annex the West Bank is Illegal,...
HRN has released a statement “Israel’s Plan to Annex the West Bank is Illegal, Abusive, and a Threat to Peace”. In the statement, we describe how the recent proposal to extend Israeli sovereignty to...
View ArticleHRN Has Submitted an Oral Statement on COVID-19 and Human Rights for the 44th...
HRN has submitted an oral statement by video on COVID-19 and human rights situation for the 44th Human Rights Council Session in Geneva. While the video was ultimately not aired at the session due to...
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HRN Co-signs Letter Calling for the Fishing Vessel Longxing 629 to be Added...
HRN, along with South Korean and international NGOs, reported that in December 2019 the fishing vessel Longxing 629, owned by Dalian Ocean Fishing Company, dumped the bodies of three Indonesian crew...
View ArticleHRN Releases a Statement, “The Refusal to Appoint Members of the Science...
HRN has released a statement expressing our deep concern over Prime Minister Suga’s refusal to appoint six recommended candidates as members of the Science Council of Japan (SCJ). The statement...
View ArticleHRN Releases Statement Concerning the Effects of COVID-19 on Migrant Workers...
HRN has released a statement calling on the government of Japan to take measures to protect migrants from the effects of COVID-19. This includes their rights to health and access to relevant...
View ArticleHRN and SOS Release Joint Statement on the Human Rights Situation in Hong...
Human rights Now and the Hong Kong-based organization Sounds of the Silenced have released a joint statement on the current human rights situation in Hong Kong. The statement surveys serious human...
View ArticleHRN Releases Statement on Japanese Companies’ Links to Forced Labor in...
HRN has released a statement on Japanese Companies’ Links to Forced Labor in Xinjiang UAR. The statement was originally released in Japanese on 28 Aug. 2020 (available here:...
View ArticleHRN and the Leitner Center release report on “Gender Equality at Educational...
On January 26, Human Rights Now and Walter Leitner International Human Rights Clinic published a report entitled “Gender Equality at Educational Institutions in Japan”. This paper, submitted by Human...
View ArticleHRN Submits Written Statement for the Human Rights Council’s 46th Session:...
Human Rights Now has submitted a written statement on the COVID-19 situation in Japan to the 46th Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva. In the statement we call on the government of Japan, in...
View ArticleHuman Rights Now Statement Following the Coup d’État in Myanmar
HRN has released a statement on the coup in Myanmar written below. It is also available in pdf format from the following link: HRN_Statement_on_the_Myanmar_Coup.pdf Human Rights Now Statement Following...
View ArticleHRN submits joint letter to UN body about the risk of the Japanese government...
HRN, along with four other organizations, has made a joint submission to the UN Working Group on Business and Human rights providing information about the involvement of Japanese public and private...
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