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International Human Rights

These are articles picked up from past issues of our Buraku Liberation News
relating international human rights

05/03 Study Tour to South Korea --Developing Solidarity Between the Suiheisha and the Hyongpyongsa to Ensure Human Rights in East Asia into the 21st Century--
10/02 General Recommendation XXIX on Decent-Based Discrimination Adopted by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)
09/02 Join the International Movement Towards the Elimination of Discrimination and Intensify our Efforts to Eliminate Discrimination Against Buraku People
03/02 NGO Report in Response to the First and Second Report Prepared by the Government of Japan Concerning CERD
11/01 NGO Report in Response to the First and Second Report Prepared by the Government of Japan Concerning CERD
09/01 WCAR NGO FORUM DECLARATION
07/01 Towards the World Conference Against Racism - From the Viewpoint of " Discrimination based on Work and Descent"

07/01 An NGO BRIEFING ELIMINATING CASTE DISCRIMINATION AROUND THE WORLD

07/01 NGO Report in Response to the First and Second Report Prepared by the Government of Japan Concerning the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination

03/01 Buraku Issue is covered by the CERD, UN Committee concludes

03/01 NGO Report in Response to the First and Second Report Prepared by the Government of Japan Concerning CERD
02/01 Concluding observations of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination : Japan. 20/03/2001
01/01 NGO Report in Response to the First and Second Report Prepared by the Government of Japan Concerning the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (Buraku Issue)
09/00 UN Sub-Commission Adopted a Resolution on Descent-based Discrimination
05/00 BLHRRI Sent Information to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights prior to Examination of Japanese Government's Report
01/00 Buraku Children and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (last part)
11/99 Foreigner Wins Discrimination Suit CERD was First Applied in a Ruling
09/99 Buraku Children and the Convention on the Rights of the Child
11/98 The UN Human Rights Committee Raised Concern Over Human Rights Situation in Japan
11/98 The UN HRC's Concluding Observations to the Japanese Government's Four Periodic Report
09/98 A Critique Based on the Present State of Discrimination Against Buraku People (2)
08/98 BLHRRI made a Counter Report to the Fourth Periodic Report by the Japanese Government under the ICCPR
11/97 A Counter Report was Submitted by a Group of NGOs to the UN Committee on the Child