JCLU/Universal Principle

<body> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;CHARSET=iso-8859-1" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" /> <link href="toc.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /> <title>JCLU/ Universal Principle</title> <base target="main" /> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffcc33"> <p align="right" style="font-size:x-small"> Last updated:   </p> <p><span style="font-style:italic;font-weight:bold">Universal Principle (UP News)</span> is a compilation of articles and excerpts from JCLU's Japanese-language newsletters "Jinken Shinbun".</p> <p>This is a non-scheduled web based newsletter. New arcicles are uploaded here as soon as translation is completed.</p> <p>UP News is edited by the Universal Principle Committee and published by the Japan Civil Liberties Union.</p> <h3>Latest Update</h3> <ul> <li><a href="articles/345kubota.html"> Graduate Law School and Role of NGO:14th Kubota Memorial Symposium</a> </li> <li><a href="articles/347internet-reporting.html">Statement to Request the Immediate End to Internet Reporting of Information Concerning Foreigners by the Ministry of Justice</a> </li> <li><a href="articles/346iraq.html">The JCLU opposes dispatch of SDF to Iraq</a></li> <li>The latest printed version No.11 is available in <a href="up11.pdf">PDF format</li> </ul>. </div> <h3>Back Numbers</h3> <ul> <li><a href="08/main.html">No. 8, Summer 1998</a></li> <li><a href="07.html">No. 7, Summer 1997 (Table of Contents only)</a></li> </ul> <hr align="left" /> <p align="center"> <a href="../../index_e.shtml"><strong>Home page (English)</strong></a><strong> | <a href="../../index.shtml">Home page (Japanese)</a></strong></p> </body> </html> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <head> <title>Universal Principle</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" /> <link href="toc.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /> <base target="article" /> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffcc33"> <table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="88%" > <tr> <td colspan="2" class="genre"><br /><a name="terrorism" id="terrorism">COUNTER TERRORISM</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td>January 2004</td> <td><a href="articles/346iraq.html"> The JCLU opposes dispatch of SDF to Iraq</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>July 2003</td> <td><a href="articles/343kang.html"> Counter Terrorism or Civil Liberties?:Toward a Viewpoint Transcending Hostility and Nationalism</a> </td> </tr> <td>July 2003</td> <td><a href="articles/343conspiracy.html"> Counter Terrorism or Civil Liberties?:JCLU Opposes Introduction of the Crime of Conspiracy</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>November 2002</td> <td><a href="articles/339asiaconf.html"> Counter Terrorism or Civil Liberties?:The Situation in Various Regions of Asia</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>May 2002</td> <td><a href="articles/336terror.html"> Counter Terrorism or Civil Liberties?:The International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="genre"><br /><a name="education" id="education">EDUCATION</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td>May 2002</td> <td><a href="articles/336kimigayo.html"> The National Flag and Anthem are Putting the Freedom of Conscience at School in Danger!</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="genre"><br /><a name="expression" id="expression">FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td>December 2002</td> <td><a href="articles/a19.html"> Freedom of Expression and Administration of Justice in Japan</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>October 2001</td> <td><a href="articles/332cybercrime.html"> The Convention on Cyber-Crime and the Challenges that Exist </td> </tr> <tr> <td>July 1998</td> <td><a href="articles/313internet.html"> Internet and Freedom of Expression</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="genre"><br /><a name="indeginous" id="indeginous">INDEGINOUS PEOPLES</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td>September 2002</td> <td><a href="articles/338ainu.html"> Ainu Dignity Rights Case</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="genre"><br /><a name="humanitarian" id="humanitarian">HUMANITARIAN LAWS</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td>November 2002</td> <td><a href="articles/339icc.html"> Discussions Toward Ratification of ICC</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="genre"><br /><a name="judicial" id="judicial">JUDICIAL SYSTEM</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td>December 2003</td> <td><a href="articles/345kubota.html"> Graduate Law School and Role of NGO:14th Kubota Memorial Symposium</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>November 2002</td> <td><a href="articles/339admin-litigation.html"> JCLU Requests Amicus Curiae and In-camera Proceedings for Administrative Litigation</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>September 2000</td> <td><a href="articles/326amicus.html"> JCLU Proposes System of an Amicus Curiae Brief to the Judicial Reform Council</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td>January 1999</td> <td><a href="articles/316yasuda.html"> Statement Denouncing Unjustifiable Arrest Of Mr. Yasuda</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>July 1998</td> <td><a href="articles/313teranishi.html"> Freedom Of Expression Of Judges</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="genre"><br /><a name="media" id="media">MASS MEDIA</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td>March 2003</td> <td><a href="articles/341lay-judge.html"> JCLU Concerns Regulation of News Reporting in Proposed Lay Judges System</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>May 2002</td> <td><a href="articles/336lamvic.html"> One Year After the Establishment of LAwyers network for Media VICtims(LAMVIC)</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>July 2001</td> <td><a href="articles/331media-regulation.html"> General Assembly and Memorial Symposium "Self-Regulation of the Mass Media and Freedom of Expression"</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td>July 1999</td> <td><a href="articles/319wiretap.html"> Urgent Statement Regarding Wiretapping Bill and Freedom of Report</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="genre"><br /><a name="un" id="un">UNITED NATIONS</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td>January 2002</td> <td><a href="articles/334cedaw.html"> CEDAW member should be independent of its government</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>December 2001</td> <td><a href="articles/333cedaw.html"> JCLU calls for next CEDAW Committee member to be independent from Government policy</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>November 1998</td> <td><a href="articles/315iccpr.html"> Examination of the fourth periodic report submitted by the Japanese Government under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="genre"><br /><a name="nhrc" id="nhrc">NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td>November 2002</td> <td><a href="articles/339nhrc.html"> JCLU Demands Overhaul of Human Rights Protection Bill</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>March 2002</td> <td><a href="articles/335nhrc.html"> JCLU Comments on the Human Rights Protection Bill</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>July 2001</td> <td><a href="articles/331nhrc.html"> JCLU Comments on the Japanese Council for Human Rights Promotion's Report; Especially as Relating to the Establishment of an Independent Human Rights Commission</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>July 2000</td> <td><a href="articles/324nhrc.html"> JCLU on the last step for the finalization of the model bill of Human Rights Commission</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>November 1999</td> <td><a href="articles/321injuction.html"> JCLU Expresses Opposition to "Administrative Injunction" Plan for Publications</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>July 1999</td> <td><a href="articles/319educate.html"> JCLU released its comments to the report of the Council for Human Rights Promotion</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>March 1999</td> <td><a href="articles/317jakarta.html"> Symposium on National Human Rights Institutions Held in Jakarta</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="genre"><br /><a name="refugees" id="refugees">REFUGEES</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td>January 2002</td> <td><a href="articles/334afgan.html"> Detained Afghan Asylum-Seekers in the Midst of Anti-Terror Campaign</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="genre"><br /><a name="disability" id="disability">PERSON WITH DISABILITY</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td>September 2002</td> <td><a href="articles/338mental-statement.html"> JCLU Criticizes The Law as Stigmatizing Patients</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>September 2002</td> <td><a href="articles/338mental.html"> Dangerousness Assessments are Impossible: Psychiatrist Speaks Out</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>July 2002</td> <td><a href="articles/337mental.html"> The New Law Jeopardizes Rights of People with Mental Disabilities:Crime and Human Rights of People with State of Insanity: 2002 General Assembly Memorial Symposium </td> </tr> <tr> <td>October 2001</td> <td><a href="articles/332mental.html"> In Between Public Sentiment and Incidents involving the Disabled: Activity of Committee on Human Rights of People with Mental Disabilities </td> </tr> <tr> <td>May 2001</td> <td><a href="articles/330mito.html"> Research Report "Testimony of people with intellectual disability in court: In order to make the voices of people with intellectual disability heard by the justice system" </a></td> </tr> <tr> <td>March 1999</td> <td><a href="articles/317mito.html"> The Mito Incident: People with intellectual disability Abused at Workplace</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="genre"><br /><a name="know" id="know">RIGHT TO KNOW</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td>November 2002</td> <td><a href="articles/339appelate.html"> Appellate Procedure to Judicial Decisions Denying Dis-closure of Judicial Administrative Information</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>September 2002</td> <td><a href="articles/338jukinet.html"> Statement Calling for Fundamental Reconsideration of the National Resident Registry Network</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>July 2002</td> <td><a href="articles/337defence.html"> Self Defense Agency Leaks the List of the Information Disclosure Requesters</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>July 2002</td> <td><a href="articles/337Lockheed.html"> JCLU Endorses Lockheed “Declaration” Lawsuit</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>December 2001</td> <td><a href="articles/333diet.html"> The Diet Information Disclosure Act</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>December 2001</td> <td><a href="articles/333defence.html"> Statement in Opposition to the 'Defense Secret' Clause included in the Amendment to the Self-Defense Forces Law</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>May 2001</td> <td><a href="articles/330criminal-case.html"> Disclosure of Criminal Case Documents</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>May 2001</td> <td><a href="articles/330asiaconf.html"> Conference on Freedom of Information and Civil Society in Asia</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>March 2001</td> <td><a href="articles/329foia.html"> Information Disclosure Law Establishes New Right of Access</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>September 2000</td> <td><a href="articles/326privacy.html"> JCLU Works to Create Safeguards to Protect Privacy </a></td> </tr> <tr> <td>May 1999</td> <td><a href="articles/318foia.html"> Information Disclosure Law Enacted</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>May 1999</td> <td><a href="articles/318archive.html"> Statement on the National Archives Bill</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>March 1999</td> <td><a href="articles/317miki.html"> Right to Know Exam Results Denied:JCLU Issues a Statement</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="genre"><br /><a name="foreigner" id="foreigner">RIGHTS OF FOREIGNERS</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td>March 2004</td> <td><a href="articles/347internet-reporting.html"> Statement to Request the Immediate End to Internet Reporting of Information Concerning Foreigners by the Ministry of Justice</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>May 2003</td> <td><a href="articles/342racism-cases.html"> Efforts to Eliminate Racial Discrimination Lawsuits and Proposal for Anti-Discrimination Law</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>March 2003</td> <td><a href="articles/341ethnicschool.html"> JCLU Demands National University Entrance Exam Qualification for All Foreigners' Schools </a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>November 2002</td> <td><a href="articles/wcar.html"> JCLU in The World Conference Against Racism </a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>January 2001</td> <td><a href="articles/328Matthew.html"> Reflections on Voting, Identity, and Self-Affirmation</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td>July 2000</td> <td><a href="articles/324govinda.html"> Statement Regarding the Detention of a Foreign Criminal Defendant after Acquittal by Tokyo District Court in Japan In the Murder Case of an Electric Company Employee</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>January 1999</td> <td><a href="articles/316zheng.html"> The Case of Zheng Came to a Close</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="genre"><br /><a name="child" id="child">RIGHTS OF THE CHILD</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td>September 1998</td> <td><a href="articles/314child.html"> Consideration of the Japanese Governmental Report on Convention on the Rights of the Child</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="genre"><br /><a name="women" id="women">WOMEN</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td>September 2003</td> <td><a href="articles/341cedaw.html"> CEDAW Reviews Women's Rights in Japan</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>May 2003</td> <td><a href="articles/342traffick.html"> Trafficking of Women in Japan</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>November 2002</td> <td><a href="articles/339midwife.html"> Midwives File Lawsuit to Challenge Resolution on Introduction of Male Midwives</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>March 2002</td> <td><a href="articles/335midwife.html"> Why is a midwife's work a woman's job? –Thinking about the introduction of male midwives–</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>September 2000</td> <td><a href="articles/326dv.html"> Announcement of JCLU Draft of " Domestic Violence Prohibition Law"</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>September 1998</td> <td><a href="articles/314genital.html"> "The External Genital of Japanese Women": Committee for the Inquest of Prosecution rejected non-prosecution</a> </td> </tr> </table> <h3>Back Numbers</h3> <ul> <li> <a href="08/main.html">No. 8, Summer 1998</a> </li> <li> <a href="07.html">No. 7, Summer 1997 (Table of Contents only)</a> </li> </ul> </body> </html> </body>