Japan - Universal Periodic Review
Session reviewed: 42nd session of the Universal Periodic Review
Date reviewed: January 31, 2023
Recommendation
Canada commends Japan for the Act recognizing the Ainu people as an Indigenous People.
Canada recommends that Japan:
Consider the establishment of an independent national human rights institution in accordance with The Paris Principles.
- Consider the establishment of an independent national human rights institution in accordance with The Paris Principles.
- Continue efforts for the advancement of gender equality and promotion of women’s empowerment in political and economic spaces.
- Further the efforts to eliminate discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, recognize on a national level same-sex partnerships and permit same-sex marriage.
- Follow the appropriate UN standard rules to improve detention conditions including better medical and psychiatric treatment; appropriate heating in the winter; and larger servings of food to prisoners.
Canada continues to be concerned about the lack of a moratorium on the use of capital punishment, and urges the Government of Japan to engage in a public debate about the use of the death penalty.
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