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August 30, 2016

Remembering Victims of a Mass Killing in Japan

A month ago on July 26, a 26-year-old man stabbed 19 men and women to death and wounded another 26 as they slept in a state-funded institution in Sagamihara, southwest of Tokyo.

Disability Rights

August 30, 2016 Commentary

Remembering Victims of a Mass Killing in Japan

Emina Ćerimović
Researcher, Disability Rights Division

Published In: Yahoo! Japan News
Children's Rights

June 29, 2016 Commentary

The Secret to Battling Homophobia in Japan's Schools: Manga

Kyle Knight
Researcher, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Program

Published In: The Advocate
Children's Rights

May 27, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: A Gift From Japan to Its Children

Kanae Doi
Japan Director

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May 5, 2016 Video

LGBT Students Bullied in Japan
May 1, 2014 Video

Japan: Children in Institutions Denied Family Life

News

May 27, 2016 Commentary

Revised Child Welfare Act: the principle of family-based care now guaranteed by the law

Kanae Doi
Japan Director

Published In: Huffington Post
May 6, 2016 Interview

Interview: The Bullying of LGBT Kids in Japan’s Schools

Amy Braunschweiger
Senior Web Communications Manager
May 5, 2016 News Release

Japan: Bullied LGBT Students Unprotected
April 1, 2016 Letter

HRW Allegation Letter to UN Special Rapporteurs
March 18, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Teacher Ignorance Lets LGBT Bullying Flourish

Kyle Knight
Researcher, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Program
February 4, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Japan Joins Mercury Treaty – Now Act On It

Juliane Kippenberg
Associate Director, Children's Rights Division
December 7, 2015 Dispatches

Dispatches: Japan’s Evolving Public Debate on LGBT Rights

Kanae Doi
Japan Director
November 18, 2015 Dispatches

Dispatches: UN Takes On LGBT Bullying in Asia

Kyle Knight
Researcher, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Program
November 2, 2015 Commentary

How Minamata Can Save Filipino Children

Juliane Kippenberg
Associate Director, Children's Rights Division

Published In: Kumamoto Nichinichi Shimbun
October 21, 2015 Letter

Letter to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
October 21, 2015 News Release

Japan: Raise Rights Concerns in Central Asia
September 22, 2015 Commentary

No ‘Paradise on Earth’: Why Japan Should Right a Historic Wrong

Kanae Doi
Japan Director

Published In: The Diplomat

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May 6, 2016

“The Nail That Sticks Out Gets Hammered Down”

LGBT Bullying and Exclusion in Japanese Schools
May 1, 2014

Without Dreams

Children in Alternative Care in Japan
January 17, 2002

Recommendations to the International Conference on Reconstruction Assistance to Afghanistan

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Kanae Doi

Japan Director @kanaedoi

Abandoned in Aleppo; Hungary's Contempt for Media Freedom; Rights Prizes Awarded

Daily Brief

October 11, 2016

Some 250,000 people have been "abandoned" by the siege in Aleppo.

Plus: Hungary has shown its contempt for media freedom; Controlling social media the old-fashioned way in Chechnya; Protesters on trial in Kazakhstan; Top rights prizes for Yazidi activist who escaped ISIS and for imprisoned Uyghur activist in China; Our #FreeThem campaign gets a boost; and acting to #EndChildMarriage.