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Human Rights in Asia-Pacific

Issue

 Bonded Labor Caste Discrimination Domestic Violence Extra-Judicial Killing HIV AIDS HR & Development HR Concept Migrants National Security Laws Peace Right To Information Role of Government Torture Trafficking Vienna Conference

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 Children Ethnic Minorities Indigenous Peoples Migrant Workers Peasants People Living with HIV AIDS People With Disabilities Refugees Urban Poor Women Workers

Region

 Central Asia Northeast Asia Pacific South Asia Southeast Asia West Asia

Country

 Afghanistan Australia Azerbaijan Bangladesh Bhutan Burma Cambodia China East Timor Fiji Georgia Hongkong India Indonesia Iran Israel Jordan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Lebanon Malaysia Maldives Marshall Islands Mongolia Nepal New Zealand North Korea Pakistan Papua New Guinea Philippines Qatar Solomon Islands South Korea Sri Lanka Taiwan Thailand Tonga Vietnam


Human Rights in Japan

Jinken, the Japanese word for human rights, appeared in the late 19th century. Yukichi Fukuzawa, a famous Japanese intellectual, coined the term at a time when Japan was opening up to European and American ideas and technology. Despite a... [read more]

Human Rights Education

The words "human rights education" became more widely used in Asia-Pacific only during the decade of the 1990s. But its practice had started in many Asian and Pacific countries decades before the words "human rights education" became popular. Educational... [read more]

Human Rights Centers

The HURIGHTS OSAKA Directory of Human Rights Centers in the Asia-Pacific1 defines a human rights center as an institution engaged in gathering and dissemination of information related to human rights. The information refers to the international human rights instruments,... [read more]