Central Asia

Overview Articles

2015-12-20 -

Ratification Table - Central Asia

2015-03-31 -

Death Penalty in Central Asia
Penal Reform International

2012-03-30 -

Central Asia: Censorship and Control of the Internet and Other New Media
Brigitte Dufour and Farid Tuhbatullin

Specific Articles

2012-03-19 -

Central Asia: Censorship and Control of the Internet and Other New Media
Brigitte Dufour and Farid Tuhbatullin on behalf of International Partnership for Human Rights, Turkmen Initiative for Human Rights and Other Partner Organizations

2010-09-19 -

Kazakhstan: Universal Periodic Review
HURIGHTS OSAKA

1998-03- 1 -

The Contending Discourses on Women in Iran, Part 2
Farideh Farhi

1998-06- 1 -

The Contending Discourses on Women in Iran - Part 2
Farideh Farhi

Northeast Asia

Overview Articles

2015-12-20 -

Ratification Table - Northeast Asia

2007-06- 1 -

Combating Discrimination on the Internet in Japan
Keihatsu Renkyo

2005-12- 1 -

Children as Partners (editorial)
Editorial

Specific Articles

2016-04-28 -

Human Rights Education in Japan: Overview
Mariko Akuzawa

2016-04-28 -

A Facilitator's Training Manual on Business and Human Rights
HURIGHTS OSAKA

2016-04-28 -

Vietnamese Boat People: 40 Years Later
HURIGHTS OSAKA

2016-04-28 -

Nishiyodogawa: Community Struggle on Right to Health
AOZORA Foundation

2016-04-28 -

Pilot Refugee Resettlement Program: Japan Experience
Saburo Takizawa

2015-09-30 -

Right to Land and the Ainu
Chisato Abe

2015-11- 4 -

Death Penalty: Fig Leaf for Government's Incompetenc
Lin Hsin-yi

2015-09-30 -

Human Rights and Cyber Hate Speech: The Case of the Ainu
ann-elise lewallen

2015-06-30 -

Challenges Faced by Japanese Women with Disabilities and their Policy Proposals
Kumiko Fujiwara

2015-09-30 -

Beyond the Present Ainu Policy: emancipating the Ainu from subordination to Japan
Hiroshi Maruyama

2015-09-30 -

More Care, Less Tragedy: Left-behind Children in China
Xu Zhen

2014-09-30 -

20th Anniversary of HURIGHTS OSAKA
HURIGHTS OSAKA

2013-03-29 -

Support for Non-Japanese Residents in Japan (2013)
Jefferson R. Plantilla

2013-03-29 -

Northeast Asia Training on Human Rights-based Approach to Access to Justice
HURIGHTS OSAKA

2012-12-28 -

Combatting Sex Trafficking in Japan
Christey West

2012-12-28 -

Domestic Violence in Japan - Support Services and Psychosocial Impact on Survivors
Miriam Tabin

2012-06-29 -

International Pressure (editorial)

2012-06-29 -

Detention Centers and Prisons in Japan (editorial)
HURIGHTS OSAKA

2012-09-28 -

Beyond Invisibility: Great East Japan Disaster and LGBT in Northeast Japan
Azusa Yamashita

2012-12-28 -

Chinese Residents in Osaka: Facing a Dilemma
Xinyi Li

2012-09-28 -

Northeast Asia Training Resource Material for Human Rights Education
HURIGHTS OSAKA

2012-09-28 -

Beyond Invisibility: Great East Japan Disaster and LGBT in Northeast Japan
Azusa Yamashita

2011-12-30 -

The Hague Convention and Japan: Some Issues
HURIGHTS OSAKA

2011-12-30 -

Zainichi Firipin-jin: Status and Hardships
Adrian Ablao Bonifacio

2011-06-19 -

Child-friendly Spaces in Japan: An Integrated Approach for Child Protection in an Emergency

2010-03-19 -

Korea's City of Human Rights: Gwangju
Jean Ahn

2010-12- 8 -

National Human Rights Commission of Korea Express Its Stance on North Korean Human Rights Issues

2010-09-19 -

Human Rights and the Osaka Prefectural Government
Joseph Lavetsky

2010-06-19 -

Seminar on Japan's Report on ICERD
Nobuki Fujimoto

2009-12- 1 -

Life as Dekkasseguis: The Brazilian Community in Japan
Erika Calazans

2009-09-19 -

WPHRE and Human Rights Education Law in Japan: Implications for the Japanese Local Governments
Kenzo Tomonaga

2009-06- 1 -

Jiichiro Matsumoto: Peacenik?
Ian Neary

2009-12- 1 -

Fighting the Insecurity of Foreign Residents - Possibilities of Cooperation between Japanese and Korean People
Kinhide Mushakoji

2009-03- 1 -

Symposium on Multi-cultural Families and the Local Community
Koonae Park and Nobuki Fujimoto

2008-06- 1 -

Prefectural Policy Change and Human Rights Work: The Case of HURIGHTS OSAKA

2008-06- 7 -

Upper and Lower Houses of the Diet of Japan recognize the Ainu as Indigenous People

2008-01- 1 -

South Korean National Assembly Approved Government Support (JPY 360 Million) for Korean Residents in Utoro Area, Kyoto, Japan

2008-06- 1 -

The Everyday Life of Muslims in Japan
Yeseul Christeena Song

2008-06- 1 -

Present-Day Buraku Discrimination
Kenzo Tomonaga

2008-12- 1 -

International Workshop on Current Buraku Issues
HURIGHTS OSAKA

2008-02- 6 -

41 individuals were recognized as Refugees in Japan in 2007

2008-10- 3 -

South Korea; Support for Multicultural Families Act Enacted

2008-03-12 -

National Police Agency: 43 Victims of Trafficking were protected in Japan in 2007

2008-05- 4 -

Ministry of Education of Japan Announces the "Approaches to Teaching Human Rights Education" (Third Report) to Relevant Entities

2008-06- 1 -

Minorities in Japan
Editorial

2008-12- 1 -

Employment Measures for Persons with Disabilities in Japan
Ryosuke Matsui

2008-06- 1 -

Japan and Sexual Minorities
Sam Shoushi

2008-02- 1 -

Guidelines for Ensuring Appropriate Interrogations in Police Investigations

2008-01- 5 -

New Basic Policy Adopted for Domestic Violence Prevention Act

2008-06- 8 -

Supreme Court of Japan - Marriage Requirements for Parents of Children Born out of Wedlock for the Granting of Japanese Nationality: Nationality Act Deemed Unconstitutional

2008-04-27 -

Supreme Court of Japan Ruled that Rejection of the Legal Visit to the Witness Was Not Unlawful

2007-12-16 -

Japan: Ministry of Justice Revised Guidelines on Foreign Trainees/Technical Interns

2007-06- 6 -

Japan: Juvenile Law Amended Again

2007-01- 2 -

Labour Policy Council of Japan Reports on Future Legislation concerning Labour Contract and Working Hours

2007-06- 4 -

Japan: Child Abuse Prevention Law Amended

2007-05- 7 -

Justice Ministry of South Korea Launch National Action Plan for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (2007 - 2011)

2007-09- 1 -

South Korea: Constitutional Court Recognized Equal Labour Rights for "Industrial Trainees"

2007-07-12 -

Japan: Offence of Human Trafficking Applied to Case of Japanese Woman for the First Time

2007-03- 2 -

Ministry of Justice: 47 Victims of Trafficking Protected in Japan in 2006

2007-06-17 -

South Korea: Family Registry Will Be Based on "Individual", Not "Family Head", after 2008

2007-04- 3 -

South Korea: Disability Anti-Discrimination Act Adopted by the National Assembly

2007-02- 7 -

Japan: Cabinet Agrees on Amendments to Employment Measures Law, Requiring Reports on Employment of Foreigners

2007-11- 1 -

Japan: Supreme Court Orders Compensation for Korean A-Bomb Survivors

2007-04- 2 -

UNHCR Reports Increase in Asylum Seekers in Japan in 2006

2007-07- 7 -

Japan: Domestic Violence Prevention Act Amended

2007-02- 9 -

National Human Rights Commission of Korea Express Its Views on Draft Law on Support for "Mixed-Blood" Families

2007-04- 1 -

Supreme Court of Japan Denied Filiation through Surrogacy

2007-09- 4 -

South Korea: Ministry of National Defense Promotes Introduction of Alternative Services for "Conscientious Objectors"

2007-11- 5 -

"Fingerprints and Mug Shots" Now Required for Foreigners' Entry into Japan

2007-02- 4 -

Japan Signed Convention on Enforced Disappearance

2007-04- 9 -

South Korea: National Human Rights Commission Conducts Ex Officio Investigation into Fire at Yeosu Immigration Detention Facilities

2007-06- 1 -

Destination Thailand: The Case of North Korean Asylum Seekers
Heidi Han

2007-09- 1 -

Japan's Initial Report to the Committee against Torture
Kayoung Lee

2007-03- 3 -

Supreme Court of Japan Found It Constitutional to Order Playing the Piano for National Anthem

2007-12- 3 -

Japan: Act to Support Japanese Returnees from China Amended

2007-05- 1 -

Supreme Court of Japan Dismissed Claims of Chinese Victims of Forced Labour

2006-03- 1 -

Trafficking in Persons and the Filipino Entertainers in Japan
Nobuki Fujimoto

2006-11- 1 -

Japan's Prime Minister Expresses Intention to Join International Criminal Court

2005-03- 1 -

Proposed Human Rights Commission in Japan: A Critique
Koshi Yamazaki

2005-06- 1 -

Amending the Juvenile Law in Japan: Ignoring the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child Recommendations
Mitsuaki Sasaki

2005-12- 1 -

Children's Rights in Northeast Asia
Yanghee Lee

2004-12- 1 -

ODA for the People's Right to Live in Peace
Kiyokazu Koshida

2004-06- 1 -

Ainu People Today - 7 Years after the Culture Promotion Law
Yoichi Tanaka

2002-09- 1 -

Ratifying the Rome Statute: Japan and the International Criminal Court
Benjamin Goold

2002-09- 1 -

Japanese National Human Rights Commission
Human Rights Forum 21

2002-09- 1 -

Rights of Disabled Persons and Japan
Kusunoki Toshio

2002-09- 1 -

Protecting Foreigners in Japan: Some Proposals
National Network in Solidarity with Migrant Workers

2000-03- 1 -

The Trickle-up Approach to Building Peace in Korea
Karin Lee

2000-12- 1 -

Human Rights in Korea
Sarangbang Group for Human Rights

1999-12- 1 -

Not for the People! - The Controversy over the National Human Rights Commission in South Korea
National NGO Coalition for the Establishment of an Independent NHRC

1998-03- 1 -

Cultural Values and Human Rights - the Korean Perspective
Byung-Sun Oh

1998-12- 1 -

50 Years is Enough
Sarah Chee

Pacific

Overview Articles

2012-03-30 -

Freedom of Information in the Pacific
HURIGHTS OSAKA

2008-03- 1 -

Youth in the Solomon Islands
Elwin Talo and Carol Pitisopa

2008-03- 1 -

Women's Rights in the Backburner?
Vanessa Heleta

2008-03- 1 -

Peace and Environment in the Marshall Islands: Beyond the Rolling Waves of Development
Chisato Mano

2007-09- 1 -

Pacific Regionalism
Jefferson R. Plantilla

2006-12- 1 -

Converging Currents: Custom and Human Rights in the Pacific
New Zealand Law Commission

2006-09- 1 -

Frontline Human Rights Defenders at Local Level: Community Paralegals in the Pacific
Imrana Jalal

2001-12- 1 -

The Fiji Human Rights Commission
Shameem Shaista

1997-12- 1 -

The Impact of Asia in Pacific Today
Lopeti Sinutuli

1996-12- 1 -

Human Rights Situationer in the Pacific

Specific Articles

2015-11- 4 -

Marshall Islands: Developing Policy for Persons with Disabilities
Amy Riklon

2015-06-30 -

Persons with Disabilities in Vanuatu
Nelly Caleb

2003-09- 1 -

Crisis and Peace in Bougainville
David Worner

1997-09- 1 -

In the Name of the Indigenous Peoples

1997-09- 1 -

Living with the Past

1997-03- 1 -

The Pacific Charter

South Asia

Overview Articles

2016-04-28 -

Citizenship

2015-12-19 -

Ratification Table - South Asia

2011-12-30 -

Extrajudicial Killing and Enforced Disappearance in South and Southeast Asia
Munty Khon

2008-09- 1 -

Human Rights in South Asian Context
HURIGHTS OSAKA

2005-12- 1 -

South Asian Context

2001-03- 1 -

South Asians for Human Rights

Specific Articles

2016-04-28 -

Biharis: On Becoming Citizens of Bangladesh
Khalid Hussain

2015-06-30 -

Silent Forms of Discrimination Against Persons with Disabilities in Bhutan
Amrith Bdr Subba

2014-03- 3 -

The National Human Rights Commission - The Maldives
Shahindha Ismail

2009-06- 1 -

Pandita Ramabai: Student, Seeker, and Visionary Leader
Sonia Hazard

2009-06- 1 -

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar: An Indefatigable Defender of Human Rights
Joseph Benjamin

2009-03- 1 -

Bangladesh and Persons with Disabilities
Khandaker Jahurul Alam

2007-06- 1 -

Untouchability and Violence against Dalits
N. Paul Divakar

2007-12- 1 -

Struggle for Land in Kerala

2007-03- 1 -

The National Human Rights Commission - The Maldives
Shahindha Ismail

2007-12- 1 -

Peasants Situation and Human Rights in Sri Lanka
Sarath Fernando

2006-12- 1 -

Stigma and Discrimination against PHAs: Some Cases
Centre for Policy Alternatives

2005-03- 1 -

India After the Tsunami - The Rights of Affected People
Gal Frenkel

2005-03- 1 -

Nepal Under Military Rule: The Undermining of Democracy and the Constitution

2005-06- 1 -

South Asian Convention against Trafficking

2005-06- 1 -

Violence Against Women: Bangladesh Context
Salma Khan

2004-09- 1 -

Human Trafficking - A New Form of Slave Trade in Bangladesh
Jamila Ahmed Chowdhury

2004-09- 1 -

Communities at Work: Combating Trafficking in Nepal
Anjan Kumar Dahal

2004-12- 1 -

India: People's Union for Civil Liberties
Pushkar Raj

2003-06- 1 -

Building the Future with Women: The Challenges of National Reconstruction in Afghanistan
Fatana Gailani

2003-06- 1 -

Rights in Law and in Practice: The Case of Bangladesh
Jamila Ahmed Chowdhury

2002-03- 1 -

Colloquium on Gender Justice and Personal Laws
Research and Documentation Cell Lawyer's Collective Women's Rights Initiative

2001-06- 1 -

Reflections on Women and Violence in Bangladesh
Saira Rahman

2001-12- 1 -

The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka
S. Wijegoonawardena

2001-09- 1 -

Psycho-social Rehabilitation Towards Development
Tahirih Q. Ayn

2001-12- 1 -

National Human Rights Commission: Nepal Experience
Jogendra K Ghimire

2001-09- 1 -

Child Labor and India's Football-making Industry
India Committee on the Netherlands

2001-06- 1 -

Bhutanese Refugee Verification: Serious Commitment or a Time-Buying Tactic?
Jagatmani Acharya

2000-09- 1 -

National Seminar on Human Rights Education - Pakistan

2000-12- 1 -

Accessing Information in South Asia
Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative

2000-09- 1 -

A Fight against Kamaiya System: an Experience Review
Mukunda Raj Kattel

1999-12- 1 -

An Act without Action: A Nepalese Experience
Mukunda Kattel

1999-12- 1 -

A National Human Rights Commission for Bangladesh
A H Monjurul Kabir

1997-09- 1 -

Harmonizing Asia's Cultural Values and Human Rights: The Validity of the Approach - Sri Lankan Experience
Basil Fernando

1997-03- 1 -

Crisis in the Chittagong Hill Tracts - Bangladesh
Adilur Rahman Khan

1997-09- 1 -

Articulating Human Rights in the Context of Buddhist Ethics in Sri Lanka
Sasanka Perera

1997-06- 1 -

Culture, Women and Human Rights
Binai Srinivasan

1997-06- 1 -

Indian Cultural Values and the Promotion of Human Rights
Sebasti L. Raj

1996-03- 1 -

Bhutan: Human Rights in Peril
HURIGHTS OSAKA

Southeast Asia

Overview Articles

2015-12-19 -

Ratification Table - ASEAN

2012-03-19 -

Human Trafficking in the Mekong Region: One Response to the Problem
Matthew Friedman

2011-12-30 -

Extrajudicial Killing and Enforced Disappearance in South and Southeast Asia
Munty Khon

2008-09- 1 -

41 Years of ASEAN
Editorial

2008-09- 1 -

The Process of Establishing an ASEAN Human Rights Body
HURIGHTS OSAKA

2008-09- 1 -

ASEAN and Human Rights
Jefferson R. Plantilla

2007-09- 1 -

ASEAN Human Rights Body
Jefferson R. Plantilla

2007-09-30 -

Regional Human Rights Mechanism
Editorial

2007-12-30 -

Regional Human Rights Mechanism
Editorial

Specific Articles

2016-04-28 -

New Boat People (editorial)

2016-04-28 -

New Boat People: The Rohingyas
HURIGHTS OSAKA

2015-03-31 -

Champion Open Debate and Discourse on Islamic Law

2013-03-29 -

Cheap, Vulnerable and Easily Exploitable: Migrant Workers In Malaysia
Charles Hector

2012-06-29 -

Map Ta Phut: Thailand's Minamata?
HURIGHTS OSAKA

2012-09-28 -

Resolving the Muslim Rohingya Issue
HURIGHTS OSAKA

2012-06-29 -

Human Rights Center for Thailand
Jefferson R. Plantilla

2011-06-19 -

Challenges to the Right of Children to Participate: Child Labor and Situations of Armed Conflict
Edelweiss F. Silan, Sucharat Satharpornanon and Chakkrid Chansang

2010-07-23 -

Raden Adjeng Kartini: Indonesia's Feminist Educator
HURIGHTS OSAKA

2010-12- 1 -

The Human Rights and Humanitarian Costs of the 2008-2009 Mindanao War
Zainudin S. Malang

2010-03- 1 -

Human Rights in the Philippines: Government Response
HURIGHTS OSAKA

2009-06- 1 -

Normalization of Aceh: Impossible Without Truth-telling, Part 2
Amiruddin al Rahab

2009-09- 1 -

Philippine Museum Honors Resistance to Martial Law
Bantayog ng mga Bayani Museum

2009-09- 1 -

Toul Sleng
John Lowrie

2009-03- 1 -

Normalization of Aceh: Impossible Without Truth-telling, Part 1
Amiruddin al Rahab

2009-12- 1 -

Developments on the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights
Ray Paolo J. Santiago

2008-03- 1 -

Social, Economic and Cultural Rights in Burma
Neil Lawrence

2008-12- 1 -

Mindanao Conflict: In Search of Peace and Human Rights
HURIGHTS OSAKA

2007-12- 1 -

Indonesian Peasants Today
Aliansi Petani Indonesia

2007-09-30 -

ASEAN Committee on Migrants Workers
Ma. Lorena Macabuag

2007-09- 1 -

ASEAN Committee on Migrant Workers
Ma. Lorena Macabaug

2007-06- 1 -

Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions In the Philippines, 2001-2006
Maria Socorro Diokno

2007-03- 1 -

Ombudsman for Human Rights: The Case of Timor-Leste
Guteriano Nicolau

2007-12- 1 -

Sumilao Land Struggle
PAKISAMA

2007-09-30 -

ASEAN Human Rights Body
Jefferson R. Plantilla

2006-12- 1 -

Fighting Stigma and Discrimination against People Living with HIV and AIDS in the Philippines
Jose Narciso Melchor C. Sescon

2006-06-19 -

Protecting Children Against Trafficking: Southeast Asian Guidelines

2006-03- 1 -

Trafficking in Persons and the Filipino Entertainers in Japan
Nobuki Fujimoto

2006-09-19 -

Threats to Southeast Asia's Media: An Overview
Southeast Asia Press Alliance

2006-06- 1 -

Protecting Children Against Trafficking: Southeast Asian Guidelines
Nobuki Fujimoto

2005-12- 1 -

Human Rights of Children in Cambodia: Focus on Trafficking
Machiko Kaida

2005-06- 1 -

Human Rights Behind Bars: The Manila City Jail Experience
Ma. Rita Arce Alfaro

2004-06- 1 -

Emerging Indigenous Peoples Movements in Indonesia
Sandra Moniaga

2003-09- 1 -

The Comprehensive Agreement on Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law: A Document of Peace and Human Rights
Rene V. Sarmiento

2003-06- 1 -

Reconstruction in East Timor: Critical Issues on UNTAET
Mericio J. Dos Reis

2003-09- 1 -

Searching for Peace in Aceh
Sentot Setya

2003-03- 1 -

Invisible Victims of the Tsunami - Burmese Migrant Workers in Thailand
Tetz Hakoda

2002-12- 1 -

Malaysian Plantation Workers
S. Arutchelvan and Mohanaran

2001-03- 1 -

Malaysian Plantation Workers and Judicial Recourse
S. Arutchelvan

2001-06- 1 -

Why Psychosocial Activities are Necessary
Abilio Belo

2001-06- 1 -

Psychosocial Trauma and Rehabilitation Work in East Timor
Abilio Belo

2001-12- 1 -

Human Rights Commission - The Malaysian Scenario
Chiam Heng Keng

2000-06- 1 -

Marginalization and Globalization: Commercializing Natural Resources in the Mekong Region
Satoru Matsumoto

1999-12- 1 -

Visit to Myanmar (Burma) by the Australian Human Rights Commissioner
Chris Sidoti

1999-12- 1 -

The National Human Rights Commission Act in Thailand
Ken Bhattacharjee

1998-12- 1 -

Synopsis of a Policy Initiative for the Establishment of an ASEAN Human Rights Mechanism
Working Group for an ASEAN Human Rights Mechanism

1997-09- 1 -

Peace and Development

1996-09- 1 -

A New Political Priority: The Need for an Effective National Human Rights Commission in Thailand
Ian Hamilton

West Asia

Overview Articles

2015-12-20 -

Ratification Table - West Asia

Specific Articles

2007-03- 1 -

The Qatari National Human Rights Committee: A Search for Evaluation
Mohamed Saeed M. Eltayeb

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