161.21.4
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Labour rights
- Migrants
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
161.38.1
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Accelerate its efforts to establish a National Human Rights Commission, ensuring its independence and full compliance with the Paris Principles
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- National Human Rights Institution
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
161.43.4
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider taking steps to establish an independent National Human Rights Institution
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- National Human Rights Institution
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
161.44.8
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Establish an independent, impartial and credible national human rights institution in line with the Paris Principles
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- National Human Rights Institution
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
161.55
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Provide effective training to public services personnel in the application of non-discrimination laws and standards in order to combat prejudice and discriminatory behaviour
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
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
161.85
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to address the problem of discrimination and hate speech, particularly through adequate allocation of resources on this issue through education and awareness programmes in schools
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
- Racial discrimination
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
161.95.1
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider applying a moratorium on executions, with a view to ultimately abolishing the death penalty
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
161.100.9
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Establish a moratorium on the use of the death penalty, as a first step towards complete abolition of this practice and as a way of reassuring the Japanese public that adequate law enforcement does not require the state to carry out executions
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
161.113
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Improve prison conditions to bring them in line with internationally accepted standards and guidelines
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
161.118
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to enhance its legislative and protection frameworks to combat and prevent all forms of trafficking in persons
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
161.160
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Focus on the successful implementation of the Act on Promotion of Women’s Participation and Advancement in the Workplace as well as to share its best practices of their experiences in the achievement of women employees in the country
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
161.184
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to implement measures to advance gender equality in political, administrative and economic spheres
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
161.213
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that the refugee status determination process is conducted in a fair, effective and transparent manner in line with international law
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Asylum-seekers - refugees
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
161.35
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to provide support for African development, through the Tokyo International Conference on African Development process
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to development
- Technical assistance and cooperation
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
161.41
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Enhance efforts to establish an independent national human rights institution in accordance with the Paris Principles
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- National Human Rights Institution
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
161.70
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take steps to address discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, including revising the Gender Identity Disorder Law
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
161.73
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Further the efforts of some local governments and private firms to eliminate discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, including by extending at the national level formal recognition of same-sex partnerships
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- 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
161.200
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue with its efforts to promote the rights of persons with disabilities and eliminate discrimination
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
161.18
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment as soon as possible
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
161.192
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue implementation of the Government’s “Basic Plan on Measures against Child Sexual Exploitation“, and supporting and rehabilitation of victims
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
161.198.1
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement fully its obligations under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities,
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- International instruments
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
161.32
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt an open, merit-based selection process when selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
161.34
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to focus on the Sustainable Development Goals in its international engagements, especially those related to education, health, sanitation and poverty alleviation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Poverty
- Right to development
- Right to education
- Right to health
- Right to water and sanitation
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
161.37.2
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue efforts to establish a national human rights institution in accordance with the Paris Principles
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- National Human Rights Institution
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
161.42
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take necessary steps to establish a credible national human rights institution in accordance with the Paris Principles
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- National Human Rights Institution
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
161.44.5
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Establish an independent National Human Rights Institution in accordance with the Paris Principles
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- National Human Rights Institution
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
161.60
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Revise its laws to establish a broadly applicable anti-discrimination law which also effectively criminalizes hate speech
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Racial discrimination
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
161.76
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue with the ongoing efforts to fight discrimination against non-citizens on the basis of race or nationality, including by ensuring that appropriate legislation sanctioning such acts is applied effectively and all alleged cases are investigated
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Racial discrimination
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019