What should states do? • Enact domestic laws on human rights • Establish human rights institutions • Adopt and implement human rights & human rights education programs • Resolve human rights issues
Jan 15, 2016
What should states do?
• Enact domestic laws on human rights
• Establish human rights institutions• Adopt and implement human rights
& human rights education programs
• Resolve human rights issues
Citizen’s Plea
Apology
13 February 2008
Apology
Trial for Violators
Trial for Violators
Apology from an indicted person
(Kaing Guek Eav alias Duch - 20 August 2009)
(www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjp4NVGuNjU)
Mechanisms
Analysis of the Situation
But the human rights situation has also been defined by the actions of people and institutions (including organizations and business companies).
People are both involved in the protection and abuse of human rights.
Human Rights Centers
These are institutions engaged in gathering and dissemination of information related to human rights. The information refers to the
- international human rights instruments,
- documents of the United Nations human rights bodies,
-reports on human rights situations and analyses of human rights issues,
- human rights programs and activities, and
- other human rights-related information that are relevant to the needs of the communities.
Directory of Asia-Pacific Human Rights Centers (Osaka: HURIGHTS OSAKA, 2008), page 4
Human Rights Centers
Directory of Asia-Pacific Human Rights Centers (Osaka: HURIGHTS OSAKA, 2008)
Human Rights Centers
Identified human rights centers in the Asia-Pacific:
Government-supported - 32 (9)University-based – 98 (70)NGOs – 267 (175)
Japanese Human Rights Centers
1. Asia-Japan Women’s Resource Center
2. Asia-Pacific Human Rights Information Center
3. The Buraku Liberation and Human Rights Research Institute
4. Center for Documentation of Refugees, Tokyo University
5. Center for Human Rights Education and Training
6. Center for Human Rights, Kinki University
7. Center for Prisoners' Rights
8. Chiba Prefecture Human Rights Awareness Raising
9. Child Information and Research Center
10. General Research Institute on the Convention on the Rights of the Child
11. Hokkaido University Center for Ainu and Indigenous Studies
12. Human Rights Now
13. Hyogo Buraku Liberation and Human Rights Research Institute
14. Institute of Human Rights Studies, Kansai University
15. Institute of Global Concern (IGC), Sophia University
16. Institute of Social Movement
17. Kyoto Human Rights Research Institute
18. Mekong Watch
19. Research-Action Institute for the Koreans in Japan
20. Research Center for Human Rights, Osaka City University
21. Shimin Gaikou Centre
22. Tokyo Metropolitan Human Rights Promotion Center
23. Tottori Prefectural Center for the Universal Culture of Human Rights
24. Tottori City Information Center for Human Rights
25. Yokohama International Human Rights Center
Some Points
1. Need for reliable information (including for statistics) on human rights situation- role of human rights centers and other human rights institutions
2. Use of local conflict resolution/human rights mechanism
3. Importance of local human rights movement
Final Thoughts
• Rape of a Thai girl • Conversation with a Burman
• Jakarta Post editorial• CAP and DRIK• Village Constitutions