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• Amnesty International 26
• Child Soldiers International 3
• Committee to Protect Journalists 4
• Freedom House 32
• Human Rights Watch 8
• International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) 4
• International Trade Union Confederation 8
• Minority Rights Group International 11
• Reporters Without Borders 6
• UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) 1
• United States Commission on International Religious Freedom 1
• United States Committee for Refugees and Immigrants 8
• United States Department of State 74

• Abduction 3
• Access to procedures 1
• Ainu 6
• Animist 3
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 18
• Armed forces / Military 3
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 3
• Asylum policy 1
• Asylum-seekers 11
• Baha'i 3
• Border controls 1
• Buddhist 10
• Burakumin 5
• Catholic 4
• Child labour 5
• Child prostitution 7
• Child soldiers 3
• Children's rights 20
• Children-at-risk 16
• Christian 10
• Civil and political rights 2
• Conflict situation 1
• Contemporary forms of slavery 2
• Corruption 6
• Criminal justice 5
• Death penalty 13
• Demobilization / Disarmament 1
• Democracy 2
• Disappeared persons 15
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 27
• Domestic violence 7
• Economic, social and cultural rights 13
• Effective protection 1
• Effective remedy 1
• Election law 1
• Elections 12
• Extrajudicial executions 14
• Falun Gong 1
• Forced labour 24
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 17
• Freedom of assembly and association 27
• Freedom of expression 48
• Freedom of information 18
• Freedom of movement 15
• Freedom of religion 37
• Freedom of speech 15
• Gender discrimination 23
• Gender mainstreaming 1
• Gender-based persecution 1
• HIV and AIDS 1
• Hindu 3
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 28
• Human rights monitors 3
• Humanitarian assistance 1
• Illegitimate children 1
• Immigrants 2
• Immigration Detention 5
• Independence of judiciary 2
• Indigenous persons 16
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 2
• International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 1
• International protection 3
• Jehovah's Witness 3
• Jew 6
• Koreans 3
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 5
• Mentally disadvantaged persons 1
• Migrant rights 3
• Migrants 7
• Military operations 1
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• Minorities 20
• Minority rights 5
• Muslim 10
• Peacekeeping 1
• Persecution based on nationality 2
• Persecution based on political opinion 2
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 3
• Persons with disabilities 10
• Police 4
• Political parties 1
• Pre-trial detention 7
• Prison or detention conditions 14
• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 8
• Protestant 4
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 2
• Public health 2
• Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 1
• Refoulement 1
• Refugees 15
• Reintegration 1
• Rejected asylum-seekers 1
• Religious discrimination 20
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 11
• Right to education 2
• Right to employment 6
• Right to justice 2
• Right to registration at birth 1
• Right to self-determination 2
• Rohingya (Arakanese) 1
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 8
• Ryukyuans 1
• SGBV 30
• Security forces 3
• Sexual and reproductive rights 1
• Shinto 9
• Smuggling of persons 1
• Social group discrimination 18
• Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 4
• Temporary protection 1
• Terrorism 18
• Threats / Intimidation 2
• Torture 2
• Trafficking in persons 40
• Unification Church 3
• Visas 4
• Women's rights 20
• Women-at-risk 13

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• Amnesty International - Japan
• Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)
• Council of Europe, Venice Commission: Constitutional Courts (Links)
• Daily Yomiuri Online
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Japan
• Human Rights Watch (HRW) - Japan
• International Committee of the Red Cross - The ICRC regional delegation in Kuala Lumpur
• Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) - Japan
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) - Japan
• Oriental Economist
• ReliefWeb - Japan
• UNHCR - Japan
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - Japan
• United States Department of State - Japan
• World Health Organization (WHO) - Japan