Lowering the Drawbridge of Fortress Japan: Citizenship, Nationality and the Rights of Children David McNeill, Matsutani Minoru, Alex Martin, Kamiya Setsuko, and Hongo Jun Introduction Two decades ago, as Japan’s economic engine hurtled along at full throttle, the Justice Ministry announced a policy that seemed to signal an end to its attempt to keep the world at … [Read more...] about Lowering the Drawbridge of Fortress Japan: Citizenship, Nationality and the Rights of Children (Japan Focus)
Archives for June 2009
U.N. Committee Faults Japan Human Rights Performance, Demands Progress Report on Key Issues (Japan Focus)
U.N. Committee Faults Japan Human Rights Performance, Demands Progress Report on Key Issueshttp://www.japanfocus.org/-Lawrence-Repeta/3147Lawrence RepetaIntroductionHow can Japan move toward gender equality, the elimination of authoritarian police practices and realization of the human rights enshrined in its laws and treaty obligations? Many Japanese human rights lawyers … [Read more...] about U.N. Committee Faults Japan Human Rights Performance, Demands Progress Report on Key Issues (Japan Focus)
Recent Israel, Iran, Iraq, Wall Street, and more: from Information Clearing House, ZNET, and other sources
As news comes in with various takes on the legitimacy of the presidential vote in Iran, not much is cleaer except one thing: the hypocrisy of western news media and government offcials who downplay, ignore or criminalize dissent in their own, supposedly democratic country but are its most vociferous defenders when the perpertrators are the so-called "rogue states". Here are … [Read more...] about Recent Israel, Iran, Iraq, Wall Street, and more: from Information Clearing House, ZNET, and other sources
Criminal acts by police go unpunished; Ishihara promotes corporal punishment
This letter was not published by the Japan Times, so I am uploading it here.While it is heartening to read that DNA evidence finally resulted in an exoneration for Toshikazu Sugaya, it is an outrage that a man presumably forced to confess by overzealous officials merited only an indirect apology from the Supreme Prosecutor's Office (June 11: Freed Lifer: apology is no … [Read more...] about Criminal acts by police go unpunished; Ishihara promotes corporal punishment
人権侵害に対するコロンビア政府の関与
人権侵害に対するコロンビア政府の関与2009年5月4日ギャリー・リーチColombiaJournal原文http://www.jca.apc.org/%7Ekmasuoka/ほとんど毎週のように、人権侵害に対するコロンビア政府の関与が新たに暴露されている。この数週間の間に、次のようなことが伝えられている。コロンビア政府と軍の高官が右派準軍組織と共謀して、虐殺犠牲者の遺体を焼き払い、準軍組織に殺された人々の数を隠蔽しようとしたこと、コロンビア最大の準軍組織が2002年の大統領選挙でアレバロ・ウリベ大統領に資金を提供していたこと、軍の対ゲリラ戦略が人道危機の悪化を引き起こしていること。こうした問題の発覚の直前には、コロンビア軍がこの数年、対ゲリラ戦略の一貫としてますます多くの超法規的処刑を実行していることの証拠が秋らかにされ、また、選挙で選ばれた政府関係者 … [Read more...] about 人権侵害に対するコロンビア政府の関与