The government failed to commit to ending the use of coal in electricity production. There was limited progress towards greater legal recognition of LGBTI people’s rights, but discrimination against them, as well as women and ethnic Korean people, remained entrenched. A new immigration law violated the rights of refugees and asylum seekers. The retrial of Japan’s longest-serving death row prisoner began.
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