国連の国内避難民に関する特別報告者は、2011年の福島第一原発事故によって、約3万人の人たちが今日も避難生活を強いられていることについて報告書で触れています。ヒューマンライツ・ナウは、特別報告者の報告を再認識するよう呼びかける口頭声明をジュネーブの人権理事会に向けて発表しました。声明では、国内避難民の方々が直面する脆弱性を強調するとともに、日本政府が国内避難民と有意義に協議し、国内避難民に影響を与える決定を下す際に人権を中心としたアプローチを採用するという報告書の勧告を繰り返しています。
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Human Rights Now appreciates the Special Rapporteur on Internally Displaced People’s [IDPs] recent visit to Japan, engagement with civil society, and Report on IDPs affected by the Fukushima disaster.
More than a decade after the disaster, about 30,000 people remain displaced and many more in vulnerable situations. Affected people face threats to their finances, housing, livelihoods, family life, physical and mental health, education, and right to live in a safe environment.
We want to reiterate several points from the Special Rapporteur’s report, including concerns that compensation levels are prematurely ending or becoming insufficient and are inappropriately linked to evacuation orders, pressuring evacuees to return to potentially unsafe areas; that an inappropriately high level of radiation exposure has been used as the standard for lifting evacuation orders; that voluntary and mandatory evacuees are not treated equally in the support they can receive; and that threats against vulnerable groups such as women, children, and elderly persons are not being sufficiently addressed.
We want to also highlight the report’s recommendations that the government base decisions affecting IDPs on direct and meaningful consultation with affected IDPs and modify them based on their feedback, and that it follow a human rights centered approach in its decision-making, consistent with the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement.
We urge the government of Japan to take the report’s recommendations seriously and provide sufficient remedies and support to all evacuees.
Thank you.
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