China News Service, June 11 (June 11) According to Kyodo News on the 10th, Cecilia, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced People, has requested to visit Japan three times since 2018 in order to conduct an investigation of refugees from the Fukushima nuclear accident. The government did not reply once.
The Japanese side made an unacceptable judgment on the two requests, but did not notify Cecilia.
Damage to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan after the earthquake on March 14, 2011.
According to reports, Cecilia said in an interview with Kyodo News: "No response has been received. In order to further reflect the opinions of asylum seekers in the (Japanese government) policy, it is necessary to conduct an inquiry survey."
The Japanese government announced at the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2011 that, in principle, it would accept special rapporteurs to visit at any time.
According to reports, Japan’s unexplained disapproval of the visit may be subject to international criticism.
Cecilia is a lawyer from the Philippines. In 2016, she was appointed as the rapporteur responsible for the human rights situation of internally displaced persons.
In order to investigate the living conditions of the refugees in the nuclear accident, she requested to visit Japan in August 2018.
Afterwards, although I had verbally discussed the visit to Japan with the Japanese government authorities, but did not receive a reply, he made another request in January 2020, and no reply was received this time. The third request was made on June 3, 2021.
The Human Rights and Humanitarian Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan stated that the first request was “uncoordinated and could not be fulfilled”, and the second request was because the new crown epidemic was “difficult to accept”, and the third request would probably be the same response.
The class did not contact Cecilia because of her obligation to not respond.
Sanae Fujita, a researcher at the Human Rights Center of the University of Essex in the United Kingdom, pointed out: "The special rapporteur set up by the Japanese government to eliminate discrimination against leprosy patients has also visited Japan under the new crown epidemic and held talks with foreign affairs officials and others. Rapporteurs who are favorable to the government are accepted, and rapporteurs who are unfavorable are ignored. Obviously a double standard."