The government introduced measures to prevent harassment of LGBTI people at work, but no law was passed to protect them from overall discrimination. Domestic violence against women increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. The authorities’ responses to the pandemic excluded certain ethnic minorities.

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In this briefing Amnesty International highlights six areas of concern. They include the lack of comprehensive anti-discrimination legislation; lack of access to safe abortion; government plans to abolish the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family; online gender-based violence; justice for...

This document contains suggested recommendations to be made to the states under review at the 42nd session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in January/February 2023. The countries covered are Czech Republic, Argentina, Gabon, Ghana, Peru, Guatemala, Benin, Republic of Korea, Switzerland,...

This submission was prepared for the fourth Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Japan on 31 January 2023. In it, Amnesty International evaluates the implementation of recommendations made to Japan in its previous UPR in 2017, including in relation to the establishment of an independent national...

Japan’s new Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced the nation’s long-term carbon neutrality target in his policy speech on October 26th. This is a step in the right direction from the world’s third largest economy. However, a target of net-zero by 2050 is not adequate to meet Japan’s human rights...

This submission provides an overview of the organization’s main concerns about the Japanese government’s compliance with its obligations under the Covenant, including, the lack of progress in establishing a national human rights institution and towards the abolition of the death penalty. It also...

In this report, Amnesty International provides new information exposing the link between Myanma Economic Holdings Public Company Ltd (MEHL) and military units that are implicated in crimes under international law and other serious human rights violations. This information has implications for...

Health and essential workers have played an extraordinary role in the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Across countries, they have put their health and wellbeing at risk, often in very difficult circumstances and with very little support, to ensure that people are able to access the...

Amnesty International notes with alarm that 198 irregular migrants or asylum-seekers have taken part in hunger strikes over the past four months in Japan to protest their extended and indeterminate detention and the conditions in immigration facilities. As of 25 September, 36 were still on hunger...

Human Rights Council adopts Universal Periodic Review outcome on Japan. Amnesty International is alarmed at the continued use of the death penalty in Japan, including the two most recent executions on 19 December 2017. These acts breach the right to life and the right to live free from torture. The...

Amnesty International conducted research into the cobalt due diligence policies and practices of many well-known consumer electronics companies, electric vehicle manufacturers and the companies in their supply chains. As part of the research, Amnesty International contacted these companies and...

This report builds on This is What We Die For (AFR 62/3183/2016), first published by Amnesty International and Afrewatch in 2016, which showed how cobalt mined by children and adults in hazardous conditions in the DRC entered the supply chains of many of the world’s biggest brands. This report...