human rights
- GOJ Human Rights Week commemorative pamphlet includes NJ issues of discrimination
- January 14th, 2009
- Good news, of sorts. December 4, 2008 saw the start of Japan’s official “Human Rights Week” (Jinken Shuukan), when the GOJ spends money (and claims to the UN national campaigns of awareness raising) to promote issues of human rights. » Continue Reading
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- People working for American companies in Japan are covered by US Civil Rights Law
- January 5th, 2009
- Hi, here’s something on a subject that may help people working for American multinational companies. They have double labor rights/civil rights protections — both American and Japanese and apparently the American government links to the civil rights authorities of other countries/unions like Canada and the EU. » Continue Reading
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