NGO INFORMATION MEETING (JAPAN) in United Nations Office at Geneva

 FOR THE HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL (HRC)
UNIVERSAL PERIODIC REVIEW (UPR)

NGO INFORMATION MEETING (JAPAN)
OCTOBER 30, 2012: 14:00-16:00

Organized by
Japanese Association for the Right to Freedom of Speech (JRFS)
Association of Fukushima Collective Evacuation Trial for the Right to Education in a Safe Place

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   Prior to the UPR Working Party meeting scheduled on October 31, 2012 to review Japan' human rights problems, Japanese Association for the Right to Freedom of Speech (JRFS), NGO in Special Consultative Status with the ECOSOC, and Association of Fukushima Collective Evacuation Trial for the Right to Education in a Safe Place, will hold an NGO Information Meeting on Japanese human rights problems.  All interested medias, citizens, and UPR, HRC members are invited to attend the meeting.

TIME:    OCTOBER 30 (TUESDAY), 2012, 14:00-16:00
VENUE:  Room XXII, Palais des Nations, Geneva
PROGRAM (However, the order of the speech is not yet determined.)
 1: Mr Katsutaka IDOGAWA: mayor of Futaba town which was "worst hit by Fukushima fallout"   For the map of Futaba town, see "Futaba mayor declares distrust of govt…" 
Documentary"Nuclear Nation　The Fukushima Refugees Story"

2. Professor Michel Fernex: Professor Emeritus, Medical Faculty, University of Basel, will speak about the effects of radiation on children. Please see "Fukushima: precious time has been lost" .

3: Mr Toshio YANAGIHARA: lead lawyer representing the Fukushima Collective Evacuation Trial for the Right to Education in a Safe Place representing 14 children plaintiffs for a collective evacuation (whole school) from heavily contaminated Koriyama city, Fukushima.  For details of the Trial, please see http://fukushima-evacuation-e.blogspot.jp/

4. Video letters by
＊Mr Ken'ichi Ido: lawyer of the Fukushima Collective Evacuation Trial, and formerly a judge of Kanazawa District Court, who was the only judge in Japan to order an electric company (Hokuriku Electric Power Company) to shut down operation of Shika Nuclear Power Plant in 2006.

＊Two Mothers of children plaintiff: Thier names and faces cannot be revealed for thier safety, but they were courageous enough to appeal in the video letter.

5. Ms Tsuneko KAKIUCHI: General-Secretary of Japanese Association for the Right to Freedom of Speech (JRFS), NGO in Special Consultative Status with the ECOSOC, will speak on the freedom of speech and ratification of individuals reporting system in Japan.

   This is a very rare opportunity for overseas delegates, media, and citizens to hear what has been happening in Fukushima, as the Japanese government, Fukushima prefectural government, Japanese major media, and the nuclear lobby have been trying to send messages "it is safe to keep living in Fukushima", and Fukushima citizens cannot express their concerns about radiation effects on their children.  Since the national and local governments do not adopt a collective evacuation, children have been living in heavily contaminated areas, ie. 27μSv/h near a primary school in Date city, 1.3μSv/h in Koriyama city where these child plaintiffs have been living since 3.11, 2011.