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Author: AFP & L'Express
« Les lanceurs d'alerte, un statut encore fragile », 9 novembre 2018...
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Japan: Foreign labourer ‘interns’ testify to violations at gathering at parliament
Several migrant labourers in Japan under the Technical Internship Trainee Programme (TITP) gave testimony at a gathering at parliament on the human rights abuses they had faced. One Vietnamese ‘intern’ stated he had been promised he would be trained in...
Japan: Lawyers urge companies to comply with So. Korea's court ruling over WWII forced labour
Author: Wooyoung Lee, UPI
"Japan to bring South Korean court ruling on forced labor to international court", 6 Nov 2018...
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Mitsubishi Materials to set up compensation fund to settle WWII forced labour lawsuits by Chinese wartime workers
Author: The Mainichi (Japan)
"Fund nears setting up under Mitsubishi Materials' forced labor deal", 4 Nov 2018...
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- Related companies: Mitsubishi Materials (part of Mitsubishi Group)
So. Korea's Supreme Court orders Japanese firm to compensate WWII workers in forced labour lawsuit
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group did not respond
Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group to respond to a report mentioning the bank as a co-financier of the companies involved in the construction of the collapsed dam that forms part of the Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy...
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Japan: Fukushima clean-up workers, including homeless, at grave risk of exploitation, say UN experts
Author: Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Japan must act urgently to protect tens of thousands of workers who are reportedly being exploited and exposed to toxic nuclear radiation in efforts to clean up the damaged Fukushima Daichi Nuclear Power Station, say three UN human rights experts*. ...
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Commentary: Govt. strategies on AI fail to adequately address human rights risks
Author: Emre Eren Korkmaz, OpenGlobalRights
"Without binding rules, AI guidelines are just wishful thinking", 27 June 2018...
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Japan: NGOs urge Japanese mega-banks to stop funding coal projects, banks respond
Four Japanese environmental organisations, 350.org Japan, FOE Japan, Greenpeace Japan, and the Japan Center for a Sustainable Environment and Society, urged the three Japanese mega-banks (Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Mitusbishi UFJ Financial Group...