Activity
Human Rights Now combines aspects of investigations, advocacy, campaigns, education and technical cooperation with other organizations. HRN prioritizes most serious human rights violation, such as extrajudicial killings and military’s attacks against civilians. HRN also prioritizes human rights violations against those who are more vulnerable, such as women and children.
Human Rights Activities in Japan
- 2013/11/07
- Media:Anand Grover, Esq., UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health, criticizes UNSCEAR report on Fukushima -10/24/2013
- 2013/10/31
- Media: HRN in the News (The Guardian / The Japan Times / The Japan Daily Press)
- 2013/10/24
- Statement: Japanese civil society requests that the reports of the United Nations Scientific Committee on Fukushima be revised
- 2013/10/21
- Event: Human rights experts call for immediate action to protect the right to health of citizens affected by the nuclear accident in Fukushima
- 2013/09/04
- Statement: HRN Submitted Written Statements for 24th United Nations Human Rights Council
- 2013/05/20
- Event: On May 28, 2013, HRN Will Organize a Side Event at the UNHRC on the Right to Health in Fukushima
- 2013/05/20
- Civil Society Strongly Condemns Osaka Mayor Hashimoto's Remarks on "Comfort Women"
- 2013/03/04
- Event: Experts Call for Immediate Action to Protect the Right to Health of Women, Children and Others Affected by the Nuclear Accident in Fukushima
- 2012/12/15
- Statement: Civil Society Makes Statement on the Right to Health of the People Affected by the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
- 2012/12/08
- ［Media］11/16 NY : Health Related Issues After the Nuclear Accident
- 2012/09/23
- Human Rights Situation after nuclear disaster Fukushima Japan
- 2012/09/22
- Protecting the Rights of the Earthquake Disaster Victims
- 2012/09/11
- 【Statement】Request for the Radical Reform of the Health Check System including Thyroid Examination for the Affected People by the Nuclear Power Plant Accident
- 2012/08/21
- [Media] Human Rights Situation after the Great East Japan Earthquake and Nuclear Power Plant Accident in Japan
- 2012/08/16
- [Report]HRN to Organize a Conference with JFBA on Transparency of Police Investigation
- 2012/08/16
- [Report]Human Rights Now Visits Temporary Housing Area for Earthquake Victims
- 2012/08/16
- [Report] Human Rights Now Report on Human Rights in Japan for UPR.
- 2012/08/16
- [Statement] HRN statement On the Enactment of "Statute on Protection and Support for the Children and other Victims of Tokyo Electric Power Company Nuclear Power Plant Disaster"( June 25, 2012)
- 2012/08/16
- [Report] Situation of women after natural / nuclear disaster in Japan ~Presentation in New York, CSW, 2012
- 2012/04/28
- [Report] HRN submitted the counter report to the Committee of the Economic Social Cultural Rights in advance to the committee's review on the report from Japan.
- 2012/04/28
- [Report] HRN submitted the UPR stakeholder report
- 2012/04/28
- [Media] Press Conference on the grave situation around Fukushima
- 2012/03/19
- [Report] Investigative Report on Fukushima City and Koriyama City
- 2012/01/27
- [Event] 56th Commission on the Status of Women(CSW)
- 2011/09/13
- [Statement] Statement concerning the support of people moved to temporary housings
- 2011/09/13
- Human Rights Violation after Fukushima disaster~ HRN published opinion paper to urge the Japanese government to take immediate measure to protect affected people
- 2011/07/26
- Human Rights Violation after Fukushima disaster and Great East Japan Earthquake~Request of a Country Visit to Japan by UN Special Rapporteurs
- 2011/07/05
- [Event] Documents on the UN Training Seminars on 22nd and 23rd July are now available online
- 2011/06/21
- [Media] Kazuko Ito, Secretary General of Human Rights Now, appeared in Shinano-Mainichi Newspaper
- 2011/06/18
- 【MEDIA】Improving the situation of women affected by the recent natural disaster in Japan
- 2011/05/31
- [Statement] Proposal regarding affected people's right to housing and adequate livelihood support
- 2011/05/22
- [Statement] Regarding the establishment of evacuation centres with due consideration of the various needs of residents, including those of women
- 2011/05/09
- [Statement] The protection of and future decisions on the children who have lost their parents in the earthquake
- 2011/05/09
- [Statement] Statement concerning the unjustified discrimination of the people living in close proximity to the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plants
- 2011/04/29
- [Joint Petition] Urgent Petition Against 20 millisieverts per year (mSv/y) Radiation Exposure onto Children in Fukushima
- 2011/04/05
- [Statement] Protection of fundamental human rights of people affected by the recent natural disaster in Japan
- 2010/05/22
- [Statement] Statement regarding the draft resolution on the crime of aggression at the Review Conference of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
- 2010/05/12
- [Statement] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights' visit to Japan Japan's tasks to protect and promote human rights at home and overseas
- 2010/01/01
- [Proposal] HRN calls for Japan to establish human rights legislation and ratify the Optional Protocol to the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) at the Ordinary Session of the Diet
- 2009/09/24
- [Statement] Request for promoting domestic and international human rights policies, with the advent of a new administration in Japan
- 2009/01/09
- [Event] Seminar By Professor Paul Hunt "Taking Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Seriously"
- 2008/02/07
- [Report] Summary of the Human Rights Situation in Japan submitted to the OHCHR
- 2007/01/24
- [Statement] Japan's Human Rights Diplomacy: UN HCHR's visit to Japan
- 2006/09/07
- [Report] HRN joined in a survey concerning multinational firms and international law by Fafo.
