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October 12, 2016

Japan’s Chance at an LGBT-Inclusive Curriculum

With Japan’s national curriculum under review this year, the government has a once-in-a-decade opportunity to improve the situation for LGBT students.

Children's Rights

October 12, 2016 Dispatches

Japan’s Chance at an LGBT-Inclusive Curriculum

Kanae Doi
Japan Director
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

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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

October 7, 2016 Statements

Human Rights Watch submission on Japanese School Curriculum Revision
May 27, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: A Gift From Japan to Its Children

Kanae Doi
Japan Director
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

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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

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Fleeing ISIS; Blogging in Vietnam; Snatched by China: HRW Daily Brief

Daily Brief

October 18, 2016

Fleeing ISIS; Blogging in Vietnam; Snatched by China: HRW Daily Brief

Australia's "open-air prisons" for refugees; deadly retaliation in Turkmenistan; Democratic Republic of Congo moving closer to the precipice; climate change threatening food production; #FreeThem campaign for Uzbek journalist Muhammad Bekjanov; air-strikes on Aleppo suspended.