グランサコネ通信２０１０－２１

グランサコネ通信２０１０－２１

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１）ＪＷＣＨＲ発言

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ＮＧＯの国際人権活動日本委員会は、８月５日、国連人権理事会・諮問委員会において「人民の平和への権利」について発言しました。内容は、人権理事会におけるこの間の議論を支持すること、および日本で開催した９条世界会議の紹介、です。９条世界会議を国連に報告したのはたぶんこれが初めて。

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THE JAPANESE WORKERS’ COMMITTEE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

2-33-10 Minami-Otsuka, Toshima-ku, Tokyo, JAPAN

tel:+81-3-3943-2420 fax:+81-3-5395-3240 e-mail: hmrights@mx16.freecom.ne.jp

Human Rights Council Advisory Committee

5 session

2-6 August 2010

Right of Peoples to Peace

Statement by Mr. Akira MAEDA

Professor of Tokyo Zokei University

on behalf of the

Japanese Workers’ Committee for Human Rights (JWCHR)

Geneva, 5 August 2010

M. Chairperson

1. Japanese Workers’ Committee for Human Rights welcome the resolution 14/3 by Human Rights Council on the right of peoples to peace in June 2010. We also welcome and support the joint written statement submitted by several NGOs on Draft declaration on the right of peoples to peace to Advisory Committee in this session (A/HRC/AC/5/NGO/2). The report requests Advisory Committee to consider in its study the conclusions and recommendations of the workshop of experts on the right of peoples to peace.

2. In this regard, we would like to introduce the situation in Japan in recent year.

As a major part of the Global Article 9 Campaign to Abolish War, a large-scale conference was held in Japan from May 4-6, 2008. This three-day event attracted over 33,000 participants nationwide. Close to 200 international guest speakers and participants came from 40 different countries and regions to represent all continents at the conference. With the participation of Nobel Peace Laureates, intellectuals, cultural figures and NGO activists, the conference has been a forum for dialogue and discussions on the role that citizens of the world can play to realize the principles of Article 9 of Japanese Constituion, through promoting disarmament, demilitarization and a culture of peace. A final declaration was issued, in which all official guests and the over 200 members of the Japan organizing committee pledged to carry on the international campaign to support Article 9 "as a shared property of the world” that can “act as an international peace mechanism” and called on governments to adopt similar peace clauses in their constitutions.

http://www.article-9.org/en/conference/A9.html

Global Article 9 Declaration to Abolish War has the following preamble.

“Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution renounces war and the threat or use of force as a

means of settling international disputes. Further, it prohibits the maintenance of armed

forces and other war potential. Article 9 is not just a provision of Japanese law; it can

also act as an international peace mechanism that can be adopted by other states to

maintain peace throughout the world. The Global Article 9 Conference to Abolish War

strives to build an international movement supporting Article 9 as a shared property of

the world, and calls for a global peace that does not rely on force.”

And the declaration called on all governments to renounce war, and the use and threat of use of force as a means of settling international disputes, by including a peace clause in national constitutions, similar to Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution and Article 12 of the Costa Rican Constitution.

3. A year after the Global Article 9 Conference to Abolish War, June 2009, an international follow-up event was held onboard “Peace Boat” at the port of Puntarenas, Costa Rica with more than 500 participants. Guest speakers from Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, the United States, Switzerland and Japan explored the value of Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution and of Article 12 of the Costa Rican Constitution in their historical perspectives and contemporary contexts, as well as their regional and global significance. They also looked at the links between these peace clauses and Article 26 of the United Nations Charter, which calls for the establishment of a system for the regulation of armaments with the least diversion of the world's human and economic resources for armaments in order to promote the establishment and maintenance of international peace and security. The conference concluded by adopting a declaration, proposing a UN resolution acknowledging the role peace constitutions play in promoting global disarmament and calling on government to shift priorities in the allocation of resources and decrease military expenditures to invest in financing sustainable development, human security and peace.

4. Finaly, we invite Advisory Committee to consider the conclusions and recommendations of the workshop of experts on the right of peoples to peace, in particular the recognition of the double dimension -individual and collective- of the right to peace, and the written statement sponsored by more than 500 NGO on this issue. Consequently, it should request to the Human Rights Council to extent its mandate to prepare a draft declaration on the right of individuals and peoples to peace.