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• Abduction 1
• Access to procedures 2
• Animist 4
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 19
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 5
• Asylum policy 2
• Asylum-seekers 3
• Baha'i 4
• Border controls 1
• Buddhist 11
• Catholic 4
• Child labour 6
• Child prostitution 8
• Children's rights 20
• Children-at-risk 17
• Christian 11
• Corruption 6
• Criminal justice 4
• Disappeared persons 15
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 21
• Domestic violence 7
• Economic, social and cultural rights 13
• Effective protection 2
• Effective remedy 1
• Elections 10
• Extrajudicial executions 13
• Falun Gong 2
• Forced labour 26
• Forced marriage 1
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 14
• Freedom of assembly and association 17
• Freedom of expression 17
• Freedom of information 6
• Freedom of movement 15
• Freedom of religion 36
• Freedom of speech 15
• Gender discrimination 21
• Gender-based persecution 1
• HIV and AIDS 2
• Hindu 4
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 14
• Human rights monitors 4
• Illegitimate children 1
• Immigration Detention 5
• Indigenous persons 7
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 2
• International protection 3
• Jehovah's Witness 1
• Jew 7
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 5
• Mentally disadvantaged persons 1
• Migrant rights 1
• Migrants 6
• Minorities 10
• Muslim 11
• Persecution based on nationality 2
• Persecution based on political opinion 3
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 4
• Persons with disabilities 11
• Police 5
• Pre-trial detention 6
• Prison or detention conditions 9
• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 8
• Protestant 4
• Refoulement 2
• Refugees 6
• Rejected asylum-seekers 1
• Religious discrimination 20
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 10
• Right to employment 1
• Right to registration at birth 2
• Right to self-determination 2
• Rohingya (Arakanese) 1
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 7
• Security forces 4
• Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 18
• Sexual and reproductive rights 2
• Shinto 10
• Smuggling of persons 1
• Social group discrimination 13
• Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 4
• Temporary protection 2
• Terrorism 20
• Threats / Intimidation 2
• Torture 1
• Trafficking in persons 42
• Unification Church 3
• Women's rights 19
• 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