- The bill of Human Rights
Education and Enlightenment Promotion Law was passed at the Upper
House plenary session today by an overwhelming majority by both ruling
and opposition parties.
- The law is aimed at preventing
an unjust distinction and unjust infringement of the people's rights
that are depended a social status, a family status, a race, a principle,
sex, and sickness. The law clarifies enforcement of human-rights education
and enlightenment and duty of the Central and local governments and
the people. It imposes a duty of the government to draw a master plan
and to report it to the National Diet.
- Moreover, the law states
that the people have to try to contribute to realization of the society
by which human rights are respected in Article 6 in order to realize
respect and establishment for human rights. It also emphasizes duty
of the people. Since many of actual infringement of the people's rights
and discrimination have occurred in the community, the measure of
various human rights movement rooted in such an area is important.
- In order to realize the
society by which human rights are respected, just the old administrative
and financial measure is inadequate, and a human-rights law system
must newly be improved. The foundations for building the society by
which human rights are respected are improving the education and enlightenment
about human rights. It can be called one big step to enact the law
as a measure to promote the human-rights education and enlightenment.
- The way in which human rights protection of our country should be
is examined by the governmental Human Rights Protection Promotion
Council now. Installation of the independent organization that has
a right of compulsive investigation for rescue of an infringement-of-the-people's-rights
victim etc. was proposed in its interim report. Ms. Junko Takashima,
Assistant General Secretary of RENGO participates in the Council and
has proposed policies and the system towards protection and establishment
of human rights. RENGO strengthens the measure turned to the protection
and establishment of human rights as one of the big pillars of a labor
movement in the future, cooperating with various human rights movement.
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