161.67
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt an anti-discrimination law with adequate and corresponding penal provisions to protect victims
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Other
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
161.88
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Face up to and reflect on history, sincerely apologize on the issue of “comfort women“, make compensations to the victims, and ensure the right of the public to information in this regard
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
161.198.2
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Including following the Committee’s guidelines on Article 14 to protect the security and personal integrity of persons with disability who are deprived of their liberty
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
161.111
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Improve prison conditions with the aim of aligning them to international norms and standards on the treatment of prisoners
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
161.69
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue and deepen the implementation of measures to avoid and prevent discrimination against minorities and indigenous populations, including through consultations with the different indigenous peoples
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Indigenous peoples
- Minority rights
- Racial discrimination
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
161.72
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement comprehensive anti-discrimination legislation to protect and promote the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
161.83
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt a comprehensive law on racial discrimination, with an adequate definition of racial discrimination, in accordance with the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Racial discrimination
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
161.86
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Repeal all state policy and regulations which condone discrimination against and harassment of Koreans in Japan
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Racial discrimination
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
161.89
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Make efforts to ensure that the future generations learn the truth of history, including the issue of so-called “comfort women“
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
161.97.1
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take immediate measures to introduce a formal moratorium on executions and take concrete steps towards the total abolition of the death penalty
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
161.96
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider introducing a moratorium on executions as a first step towards the abolition of the death penalty, and commute all death sentences to terms of imprisonment
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
161.103
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider abolition of the death penalty and implementation of an immediate moratorium on executions
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
161.132
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to guarantee the independence of the media, including by reviewing the current legal framework governing the broadcast media, and to strengthen media independence by removing the legal basis for undue government interference
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of the press
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
161.138
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider improving the basic pension scheme for the elderly, in consultation with their representatives within the associations, so as to guarantee them sufficient resources to cover their living expenses
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Other
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
161.151
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take measures to extend the “Tuition Waiver and Tuition Support Fund Program for High School Education“ to children attending Korean schools and ensure equal treatment of Korean schools in accordance with the recommendations of relevant United Nations treaty bodies
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Minority rights
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
161.177
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Additional reform of the Penal Code to raise the age of sexual consent and prohibit spousal rape
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 14 - October 2012
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Put an end to the distortion of past history and raise awareness of historical facts by amending educational curricula to reflect historical realities, including its past crimes and atrocities
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Other
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 14 - October 2012
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that future generations continue to be informed of all aspects of their history, by taking measures such as the introduction of the topic of comfort women in textbooks for school children
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 14 - October 2012
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that conditions of detention of death row inmates comply with international standards
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- Detention
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 14 - October 2012
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that the rights of detainees sentenced to death be duly respected
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 14 - October 2012
- State under Review
- Recommendation
If no legal moratorium is given, provide all necessary guarantees to ensure that the rights of persons condemned to death are respected
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 14 - October 2012
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Improve prison conditions to bring them in line with international standards and guidelines for the treatment of prisoners by providing warmer clothes to prisoners in winter, providing foreign prisoners with timely medical and dental treatment, and increasing the amount and nutritional quality of the food
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 14 - October 2012
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Improve conditions of detention for condemned prisoners regarding communication with the outside world
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 14 - October 2012
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure full compliance of the substitute detention system (Daiyo Kangoku) with all guarantees contained in article 14 of ICCPR
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- International instruments
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 14 - October 2012
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Reform the substitute detention system in order to be consistent with the international human rights standards, including those on the right to assistance from a lawyer in custody
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- International instruments
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 14 - October 2012
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take immediate measures to abolish the death penalty for persons that were under-age at the time of the crime, as well as for those convicted individuals having significantly impaired mental ability or mental illness
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 14 - October 2012
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Encourage a deep nationwide dialogue on the death penalty, open to all stakeholders and views
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 14 - October 2012
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take measures to eliminate all forms of discrimination against Koreans
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Minority rights
- Racial discrimination
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 14 - October 2012
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take legal measures to eliminate discrimination against children of ethnic minorities, non-Japanese nationality and children with disabilities
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Minority rights
- Racial discrimination
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Examine as a priority the introduction of a formal moratorium on the death penalty.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019