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Peoples for Human Rights Vol.12

Peoples for Human Rights Volume 12, July 2009
Minority Women Rise Up: A Collaborative Survey on Ainu, Buraku and Korean Women in Japan

CONTENTS

  • Introduction

  • A Backgrounder on Japan's Minorities

    • Part One: The Survey Report
  • Purpose and Significance of the Survey

    • Section 1: What the Survey Findings Tell Us
  • I Ainu Women (Ainu Association of Hokkaido, Sapporo Branch)
  • II Buraku Women (Buraku Liberation League Central Women's Division)
  • III Zainichi Korean Women (Apeuro Women's Survey Project)

    • Section 2: Recommendations
    Part Two: Voices of the Women Involved in the Survey

    Section 1: Ainu Women
  • The Empowerment of Ainu Women (Ryoko Tahara)

    • Section 2: Buraku Women
  • A Survey that Connects Us, and a Step Towards a New Movement (Reiko Yamazaki)

    • Section 3: Zainichi Korean Women
  • Challenging the Violence of Invisibility: Why we launched the Apeuro Women's Survey Project (Yongnio Lee)
  • Ainu, Buraku and Zainichi Korean Women Converge: Thoughts on "Coming Out" (Aisun Yang)

    • Addendum: Outlook
  • My Personal Views on the Survey for Minority Women (Tomoko Yunomae)
  • Future Tasks and Aspirations (Yuriko Hara)
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    Peoples for Human Rights Vol.11

    Peoples for Human Rights Volume 11, March 2009
    The Struggle for Human Rights and Peace in Sri Lanka

    CONTENTS

  • Preface (Nimalka Fernando)

    • Part One: An Introduction to Sri Lanka
  • Sri Lanka: The Country and its People (Onoyama Ryo)

    • Part Two: Analyses and Observations of the War in Sri Lanka
  • Understanding War and Democracy in Sri Lanka (Kumar David)
  • Sri Lanka's Continuing Conflict and Crisis (Jayadeva Uyangoda)
  • Sri Lanka's Escalating Civil War and Japan's Role (Nakamura Hisashi)
  • Report from the Conflict Area of Jaffna: Experiences of a Foreign NGO worker Stationed in Sri Lanka (Onoyama Ryo)
  • Humanitarian Crisis in Sri Lanka: Voices of the Internally Displaced (IMADR International Secretariat/IMADR Asia Committee)

    • Part Three: The Struggle to Uphold the Rights of Minorities in Sri Lanka
  • The Minority Rights of the Up-Country Plantation Tamil People of Sri Lanka (P. P. Sivapragasam)
  • IMADR’s Activities in Sri Lanka 2005-2008 (IMADR Asia Committee)


    • Annex
    I Joint Civil Society Report for Universal Periodic Review of Sri Lanka – May 2008
    II Submission by IMADR Asia Committee Related to Sri Lanka for the Universal Periodic Review, 2nd Session in May 2008
    III Sri Lanka Universal Periodic Review Submission by the Women & Media Collective
    IV Internal Displacement Due to Conflict in Sri Lanka
    V Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review of Sri Lanka (Excerpt)
    VI　Response of the Government of Sri Lanka to the Report of the Working Group
    VII IMADR’s Public Statement: Termination of 2002 Ceasefire Agreement by Sri Lankan Government Regrettable
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    10 Human Trafficking and Racism

    Peoples for Human Rights Volume 10, December 2006
    Human Trafficking and Racism
    - Exploring the Links between Marginalization and Exploitative Migration

    CONTENTS

  • Preface (Nimalka Fernando)

    • Part One: Contextualizing Human Trafficking in the Global Era
  • Human Trafficking, Human Insecurity, and Exploitative Migration
    (Kinhide Mushakoji)

  • Migration and Human Trafficking in Sub-Saharan Africa: Exploring the Gender and Poverty Links (Thanh-Dam Truong)

  • Trafficking in Children: Lack of Reliable Data Leads to Invisibility for Myriads of Trafficked Children and Youth (Helene Sackstein)

    • Part Two: Ground-based Observations on Human Trafficking, Racism and Marginalization
  • Discrimination and Racism – Root Causes of Trafficking in Nepal
    (Renu Rajhandari)

  • Human Trafficking, Racism and Minority Rights – The Situation in West Africa
    (Bisi Olateru-Olagbegi)

  • Migration and Human Trafficking in Latin America: The Cultural Impact on Indigenous Communities (Lina Cahuasquí)

  • Trafficking in Japan: Racism Hindering Victims’/Survivors’ Access to Help for Human Rights Abuses (Nanako Inaba)

  • Sexual Trafficking of Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada (Erin Wolski)

    • Part Three: Addressing the Problem – Local, Regional and International Initiatives
  • Women Returnees as Agents of Change and Hope: The Story of the Batis Center for Women and the Filipina Entertainers to Japan (Andrea Luisa C. Anolin)

  • From Victimization to Empowerment: Experiences at KALAKASAN Migrant Women Empowerment Center (Leny Tolentino)

  • Regional Cooperation to Combat Trafficking in South Asia (Nimalka Fernando)

  • Human Rights and Human Wrongs: The Case of Trafficking in Persons
    (Jyoti Sanghera)

    • Appendix 1: Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons
    Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
    Appendix 2: Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Human Trafficking: Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to the Economic and Social Council Addendum

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    9 Descent-based Discrimination

    Peoples for Human Rights Vol. 9, October 2004
    Descent-based Discrimination

    CONTENTS

  • Editorial Introduction: Racial Discrimination Based on Descent : A Challenge for All Human Beings (Mario Jorge Yutzis)

    • Part One: Regional or/and National Dimensions
    South Asia
  • Discrimination on the Basis of Race, Color and Religion (Bhagwan Das)

  • Dalit Women (Burnad Fathima Natesan)

  • The Jogini System (Mallela Grace Nirmala)

    • East Asia
  • ICERD and Buraku Discrimination (Kenzo Tomonaga)

  • Buraku Discrimination and I (Shigeyuki Kumisaka)

    • African Region
  • The Existence and Implications of Discrimination Based on Descent in Africa (Alexander Stevens)

  • My Testimonial on the Watta Community of Northern Kenya (Ibrahim Kosi Galgalo)

    • Part Two: Initiatives at the UN
  • CERD General Recommendation on Discrimination based on Descent: Contribution and Empowerment of Affected Communities (Atsuko Tanaka)

  • Race, Descent and Caste under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (Patrick Thornberry)

  • Eliminating discrimination based on descent: The role of the UN Sub-Commission on the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights (Asbjorn Eide)

  • Caste Wars at the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights: A commentary on the Sub-Commission's on-going examination of discrimination based on work and descent (Peter N. Prove)

    • Appendix
    Sub-Commission on Human Rights Resolution 2000/4 "Discrimination based on work and descent" (Fifty-second session, 2000)
    CERD General recommendation XXIX on article 1, paragraph 1, of the Convention (Descent) (Sixty-first session, 2002)

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    IMADR’s journal, Peoples for Human Rights, is aimed at raising awareness, sparking debate, and expanding networks among international audiences - especially activists, academics/researchers and policymakers. Peoples for Human Rights tackles the themes of racism, racial discrimination and multiple discrimination from a range of viewpoints, both theoretical and practical, with contributions from around the world.
    FORMAT: A5 Paperback
    PRICE: US$12

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    8 Durban and Beyond

    Peoples for Human Rights Vol. 8, December 2001
    Durban and Beyond

    CONTENTS

  • The World Conference Against Racism: A Historic Event? (Theo van Boven)

  • The World Conference Against Racism: A Great Failure or a Great Success (Kinhide Mushakoji)

  • Moving Past Durban: Black Americans and the UN Racism Conference (Clarence Lusane)

  • Obstacles and Alternatives in the Struggle Against Racism and Xenophobia with Relation to Migrant Populations (Mario Jorge Yutzis)

  • Promoting Human Security to Prevent Exploitive Migration in Africa with Special
  • Emphasis on Trafficking in Women and Children (Bisi Olateru-Olagbegi)

  • Gender Issues: Globalization and the World Conference Against Racism (Electa Arenal)

  • Meaning of "Descent" in the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and Its Applicability to Caste and Buraku Discrimination (Masanao Murakami)

    • Appendix
    IMADR Post-Durban Statement
    Declaration and Programme of Action of NGO Forum at the WCAR: Slavery, Slave Trade, Reparation, Indigenous Peoples, Trafficking, Migrants and Migrant Workers.
    Address of the Dalit Caucus Delivered by Paul Divakaar to the WCAR

    IMADR’s journal, Peoples for Human Rights, is aimed at raising awareness, sparking debate, and expanding networks among international audiences - especially activists, academics/researchers and policymakers. Peoples for Human Rights tackles the themes of racism, racial discrimination and multiple discrimination from a range of viewpoints, both theoretical and practical, with contributions from around the world.
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    7 Racism in a Globalized Era

    Peoples for Human Rights Vol. 7, November 2000
    Racism in a Globalized Era

    CONTENTS

  • Tolerance and Diversity: Vision for the 21st Century (Mary Robinson and Nelson Mandela)

  • Making the Most Use of the WCAR (Mieko Fujioka)

  • Towards and Beyond the WCAR 2001: IMADR's Action at the UN Level (Atsuko Tanaka)

  • Message of Mary Robinson to the Asia-Pacific Seminarof Experts in Preparation for the WCAR: Migration and Trafficking in Persons with Particular Reference to Women and Children, Bangkok, 5-7 September, 2000

  • The Link Between Racism and Trafficking in Persons in the Region of Asia: An Overview of the Problems and Regional and International Measures (Kinhide Mushakoji)

  • United Nations Strategies to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination: Past
  • Experiences and Present Perspectives (Theo van Boven)

  • Structural Racism and Trends in the Global Economy (Rodolfo Stavenhagen)

  • Human Rights as Instruments for the Consolidation of Multiracial and Multiethnic States (Mario Jorge Yutzis)

  • Japanese Religion and Discrimination against Burakumin (Soon Man Rhim)

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    6 Globalization and Discrimination

    Peoples for Human Rights Vol. 6, December 1998
    Globalization and Discrimination

  • Introduction: Globalization of the Economy: A New Face of Poverty and Exclusion (Mario Jorge Yutzis)

  • Globalization and Exclusion (Rodolfo Stavenhagen)

  • Globalised Discriminatory Violence: Thesis about the Ideology of Globalised Discrimination (Guillermo A. Maci)

  • Globalization, Inequality and Discrimination: Theorizing Global Democratization in the Twenty-First Century (Stephen Gill)

  • Globalization, Hegemony and the Structure of Discrimination: In Search of a New Counter Hegemonic Alliance (Kinhide Mushakoji)

  • Looking to the Seventh Generation and the Responsibility of Leadership: The Concept of Leadership and Preparing for the 21st Century (Tonya Gonnella Frichner)

  • Rights and Globalization: East Asian Experience (Yash Ghai)

  • Women and Globalisation (Nimalka Fernando)

  • Balances and Challenges of the International Protection of Human Rights: 50 Years Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Theo van Boven)

    • IMADR’s journal, Peoples for Human Rights, is aimed at raising awareness, sparking debate, and expanding networks among international audiences - especially activists, academics/researchers and policymakers. Peoples for Human Rights tackles the themes of racism, racial discrimination and multiple discrimination from a range of viewpoints, both theoretical and practical, with contributions from around the world.
    FORMAT: A5 Paperback
    PRICE: US$10

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