Statement Submission
The United Nations Human Rights Council's 22nd regular session is due to start in Geneva, on 25 February, 2013. Human Rights Now (HRN), a Tokyo based international human Rights NGO with Special Consultative Status to the Economic and Social Council, in association with the following NGOs, has submitted the following statement to the session.
UN Human Rights Council
22nd Regular Session (25 February - 22 March 2013)
Item 3: Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political,
economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development
Title: Fukushima: NGOs Call for Immediate Action to Protect the Right to
Health and Life of Women and Children Affected by the Nuclear Accident in
Fukushima, Japan
Co-signed NGOs
Collective Independent WHO - for the independence of the World Health
Organization,
Citizen's Radioactivity Measuring Station,
University of Tokyo Nuclear Disaster Support Forum
Fukushima University Forum on Nuclear Disaster
World Network For Saving Children From Radiation,
Association for Citizens and Scientists Concerned about Internal Radiation Exposures,
The Committee for Citizen Scientist Network for Radiation Protection(CSRP),
Pediatricians' Network for Saving Children from Radiation,
3.11 life-note Project for Saving Children-future from Low-dose exposure,
Fukushima Health Consultation Meeting,
Parents' Network Protecting Lives of High School Children,
Workers' Executive Committee For Anti-nuclear Power Movements,
Inter-Faith Forum for Review of National Nuclear Policy,
Peace and Environmental Advocacy for the Child,
Zensekiyu Showa Shell Labor Union,
Midori Fukushima,
Niji to midori no kai
