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80 NGOs: Gov’t should accept UN special rapporteur’s request for onsite survey of Fukushima evacuees

August 18, 2021

More than 80 organizations, including NGOs and a civil group supporting Fukushima evacuees, on August 16 submitted to the Foreign Ministry a petition demanding that the Japanese government accept a UN special rapporteur’s request for an onsite survey of Fukushima people who had to leave their homes after the 2011 nuclear meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

In August 2018, the special rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons appointed by the UN Human Rights Council, Cecilia Jimenez-Damary, requested the Japanese government to allow her to visit Japan for a survey regarding the current situation of Fukushima nuclear disaster evacuees. However, as of now, she has not received a response from the Japanese government.

At a press conference held in the Diet building after the petitioning, Murata Hiroshi, who fled from Fukushima’s Minamisoma City to Kanagawa’s Yokohama City, said, “For 10 years, the government did nothing to solve vital issues affecting Fukushima evacuees. I hope that the UN special rapporteur will probe into our situation and issue a recommendation for the government to take action.”

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