国連人権理事会UPR対日審査（2017年11月14日）
に関する国連人権高等弁務官宛の公開書簡
１１月１４日に行われた国連人権理事会UPR（普遍的・定期的レヴュー）対日審査に関し、慰安婦の真実国民運動（代表：加瀬英明）、不当な日本批判を正す学者の会（会長：田中英道）は連名で国連高等弁務官宛に１２月１９日付の公開書簡を提出しました。
公開書簡英語原文：http://www.sdh-fact.com/CL/2017-12-Open-Letter-to-UNHCHR-Prince-Zeid.pdf
日本語訳：http://hassin.org/01/wp-content/uploads/UNHCHR.pdf
審査報告書の中で「性奴隷慣行」、「性奴隷犯罪」、「犯人を訴追し処罰せよ」、もしくは「それらの責任者に法の正義をもたらせ」などの事実を無視した不当極まりない用語が、拷問禁止委員会（CAT）と女子差別撤廃委員会（CEDAW）の報告書を引用する形で使われているからです。
公開書簡では、これらの用語の該当することはいわゆる慰安婦にまったく当てはまらないことをすでに日本の外務省高官が自由権規約委員会（CCPR）、女子差別撤廃委員会（CEDAW）などで根拠を示して説明していること、その他多くの資料にとって裏付けられるに至っていることを述べています。
また慰安婦についての誤ったイメージを広めた「クマラスワミ報告書」の取り下げ再調査をNGO「国際キャリア支援協会」の名のもとにジュネーブの国連理事会の会合で過去７回にわたって行ってきたことにも注意を喚起しております。
平成２９年１２月２０日 「史実を世界に発信する会」 茂木弘道拝
Open Letter to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the Universal Periodical Review Working Group for Japan in November 2017
The ‘Alliance for Truth about Comfort Woman’ (Chairman: KASE Hideaki) and ‘Academic Alliance for Correcting Groundless Criticisms of Japan’ (Chairman: TANAKA Hidemichi) jointly issued an Open Letter (dated December 19, 2017) to the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the Universal Periodical Working Group for Japan in November 2017.
URL: http://www.sdh-fact.com/essay-article/1094/
PDF: http://www.sdh-fact.com/CL/2017-12-Open-Letter-to-UNHCHR-Prince-Zeid.pdf
The major problems raised in the letter are that in the report of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) phrases such as “sexual slavery practices”, “sexual slavery crimes”, “prosecuting and punishing perpetrators”, and “bring to justice those responsible” are used regarding the issue of the comfort women, referring to the Committee against Torture (CAT) and the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).
The use of these words are completely groundless. YAMANAKA Osamu, Director of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs Division, Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) clearly stated at a meeting of the Centre for Civil and Political Rights (CCPR) in Geneva on July 15, 2014 that the phrase “sexual slavery practices” is not at all appropriate. Moreover, SUGIYAMA Shinsuke, Senior Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, MOFA definitely stated, at a meeting of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) on February 16, 2016, that the phrases “forceful abduction”, “sexual slavery” and “the number of comfort women is 200,000” are totally without meaning after explaining in detail why so many fallacies prevail on the comfort women issue.
It is emphasized that Japanese NGO has, to date, requested seven times at Regular Sessions of the UN Human Rights Council that “the Coomaraswamy Report” on the comfort women in 1996 be withdrawn for reexamination of the facts on the comfort women.
Questions are welcome.
MOTEKI Hiromichi, Acting Chairman
for KASE Hideaki, Chairman
Society for the Dissemination of Historical Fact