This communist brain, or the editorial board member of the Asahi Shimbun itself, this brain. I can't even say I'm stunned.
2019/09/17
Here is the answer to everything about the UN and the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
The emphasis in the text except for the headline and *~* is mine
The Changing Face of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Taisuke Komatsu
UN Advocacy, IMADR Geneva Office
*Not 99.9% of the Japanese public knew about this man.
He is in charge of UN advocacy at IMADR Geneva office...99.9% of the Japanese people have no idea about this man.
However, the Asahi Shimbun and others must have known about it.
As a subscriber to Asahi until August 4 years ago, I am 100% sure that Asahi, or NHK for that matter, never once reported the existence of this man, or what the Commission on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is, or who its members are.
The media, which is supposed to be a group of journalists, has been discussing the UN, the UN, and the UN for years.
They didn't mention it is probably because this man was a cornerstone of their attacks on Japan and the government based on their masochistic view of history and anti-Japanese ideology.
The viciousness of Asahi and NHK is genuinely extreme.
At the same time, the negligence of the politicians is also extreme.
The negligence of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would have been punishable by seppuku in the days of the Samurai.
The man is not doing this with the confidence of the Japanese people, who voted for him.
Outrageous is the word for this man's attitude.
If this man were Chinese, he would have been immediately arrested and detained and already been charged with treason, a felony punishable by death. *
2016 is a milestone year for the UN Committee on Eliminating Racial Discrimination (CERD).
As reported in this issue, the 50th anniversary of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination will be a year of reflection and progress.
In this momentous year, the Commission itself is undergoing significant change.
Several faces who have served on the Commission for many years are leaving the Commission.
Among the names are Commissioner Diaconu of Romania, Commissioner Huang of the People's Republic of China (China), Commissioner Januarie Bardill of South Africa, Commissioner Lahiri of India, and Commissioner Vasquez of the United States.
These Commissioners have completed their terms and are leaving the Commission.
Outgoing Commissioners.
Commissioner Diaconu is a former diplomat and a professor at Spil Hallet University in Bucharest.
He is an old hand, having served on the CERD for over 20 years.
Unlike his background as a former diplomat, he characteristically asked straightforward questions of the government during the screening process.
He is an expert in international law and has strongly advocated the need for anti-discrimination laws and hate speech regulations.
Being from Romania, where many of Europe's Roma have roots or still reside, he was well-versed in discrimination against Roma and the depth of the problem.
The Commissioner was very friendly to NGOs, which was also the case during the 2014 examination of the Japanese government's periodic report.
In the Japan review, he asked questions that well reflected the domestic situation regarding the definition of racial discrimination and anti-discrimination laws in domestic law, hate speech regulations, protection of Ainu language and culture, uniqueness of Ryukyu/Okinawa, guarantees of human rights for migrants, the establishment of domestic human rights institutions, and discrimination.
*They asked questions that well reflected the domestic situation.
What is this man's brain structure, or what is this hubris?
The first thing that came to mind was a communist brain or the brain of a member of the editorial board of the Asahi Shimbun itself.... *
Commissioner Januarie Badil is a former diplomat who served as ambassador to Switzerland and is a veteran commissioner with more than ten years of experience.
She was interested in discrimination against people of African descent and compounded discrimination against indigenous and minority women.
Although she did not speak frequently during the examination, she gave the strong impression of interacting with the government through clearly worded questions.
She is also committed to developing the "Early Warning Measures and Emergency Procedures," a system specific to CERD.
This system was born out of the international community's failure to prevent genocide in the past and is a procedure that allows CERD to alert governments and UN agencies to the threat of large-scale human rights violations against communities as stipulated in the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, to prevent such violations.
She was also friendly to NGOs and always greeted the author with a smile.
The Japan Review was concerned about human rights violations against foreigners residing in Japan and Korean residents in Japan, such as recruitment of foreigners into public service and xenophobia.
Commissioner Vasquez is a professor of law at Georgetown University and a visiting professor at Harvard University.
Although his term on the CERD panel was shorter than the other commissioners, as he served only one time starting in 2012, his presence was significant due to his expertise in the field of law, asking pointed questions through in-depth analysis of domestic law, including its compatibility with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. The United States of America has no restrictions on freedom of expression. Still, on the contrary, Commissioner Vasquez has taken the lead among the Commissioners in emphasizing the need for hate speech restrictions.
In addition to the legal field, he was interested in protecting human rights activists, the rights of indigenous peoples, the punishment of hate crimes, and democratic governance.
He was also one of the few committee members to ask questions about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons belonging to minorities.
During the Japan review, he opened up hate speech street demonstrations, clearly pointing out that such speech was "an imminent threat of violence that should be controlled. He urged Japan to address hate speech through legislation and other areas and ensure that regulatory laws are not abused against minorities and other vulnerable groups.
Chinese Commissioner Huang is a former diplomat who served as a Vienna UN representative.
Although he did not speak much at the screening, he arrived at the screening venue earlier than anyone else and often chatted with NGOs and the author.
During the Japan review, he was concerned about hate speech and historical denial based on colonial ideology and pointed out that victims of such hate speech were not given redress.
They also questioned the possibility of reexamining the massacre of Koreans and Chinese at the time of the Great Kanto Earthquake.
She also strongly condemned the continuing human rights violations against the victims of the "comfort women" system and urged Japan to implement the recommendations from the UN treaty body.
Commissioner Lahiri of India, a former diplomat, has served on the CERD since 2008.
Unfortunately, he has been ill since the time of the author's assignment to Geneva, and in 2015 he did not participate in any of the examinations due to ill health.
During the Japan review, he mentioned the delay in guaranteeing the rights of minorities and expressed surprise at the seriousness of hate speech.
He then emphasized establishing a domestic human rights institution following the Paris Principles.
Newly Appointed Commissioners
The loss of these Commissioners, who have led the Commission for many years, is a significant loss for CERD.
For NGOs, it is also a blow to lose Commissioner Diaconu, who has always posed pointed questions to the government, Commissioner Vazquez, a deep thinker in law, and Commissioner Januarie Badil, who has the perspective of the discriminated community.
However, the new Commissioners are expected to do just as well, if not better.
Chinese Commissioner Li is the current ambassador to Samoa and a graduate of Columbia Law School.
Although he has no experience in human rights, he is expected to contribute as an expert in international law.
Commissioner Margüen of Spain is an expert on issues of racism, having served for five years as director of the Center for Monitoring Racism and Xenophobia, a government agency.
He is expected to be friendly to NGOs, as his current day job is as a representative of an NGO.
United States Commissioner McDougal, a Fordham Law School scholar, is an African-American woman lawyer who has worked for many years on issues of racial discrimination in the United States.
In addition, she was the first UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues (then known as the Independent Expert) and served on CERD for three years beginning in 1998.
I had the opportunity to speak with him last November at an event commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, and he is a friendly and energetic person with whom I have great expectations for his work at CERD.
Commissioner Mohamed of Mauritania is the government's, Attorney General.
In Mauritania, there is discrimination based on the social hierarchy system. Although an anti-slavery law was enacted in 2015, some people are still treated as enslaved people in the hierarchical system.
As a native of a country where such discrimination exists based on occupation and lineage, I want to see the Commission address this unique form of discrimination.
Commissioner Shepherd of Jamaica is a professor of history at the University of the West Indies and a member of the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent.
Until now, CERD has had only one expert on discrimination against people of African descent, Commissioner Murio Martinez of Colombia, but the addition of Commissioner Shepherd will enhance the expertise of the Commission on this issue.
It is also essential for the Commission to better address this issue, as the International Decade for People of African Descent began in 2015.
Finally, four of the new Commissioners, except Commissioner Margouin, are women.
It brings the gender ratio on the Commission from 15 to 3 to 11 to 7.
While still not 50-50, this is a significant step forward in improving the gender balance of the Commission itself, which is supposed to address compound discrimination.
*Thanks to this man's sloppy writing, the masterminds of the Cultural Revolution by the left, who are now trying to take the world in a strange direction, i.e., to communize the world, divide and dismantle the Western nations, by leftist pedophiles, are now revealed to the world in full force.
The people of Japan and the rest of the world must, from now on, keep a constant watchful eye on the words and actions of this man and the others in the article.
We must not allow any more cultural revolutions by the left wielded by such outrageous people.*
