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History | Tokyo Metropolitan Human Rights Promotion Center
Background to its establishment
The forerunner to the Tokyo Metropolitan Human Rights Promotion Center was the Tokyo Metropolitan Dowa Work Promotion Society. This society was established in April 1971 by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government to solve the Dowa Problem, a problem concerning fundamental human rights, in accordance with the Special Law of Dowa work (enacted in July 1969). This Society promoted public awareness activities and played a complementary role in the Tokyo Metropolitan Government’s Dowa policies.
Apart from the Dowa Problem, various other human rights violations can be indicated today, such as discrimination against women, children, the elderly, the disabled, the Ainu, foreigners, HIV-infected people, and people who have been released from prison.
Against the backdrop of a changing human rights environment including the 1996 supplementary recommendation by the Council on the Policy of Regional Improvement, as well as national trends such as the Domestic Action Plan concerning the 1997 “United Nations Decade of Human Rights Education,” the Tokyo Metropolitan Government decided to consolidate the functions of the Tokyo Metropolitan Industry and Labor Hall and the Tokyo Metropolitan Dowa Work Promotion Society to create the Tokyo Metropolitan Human Rights Promotion Center.
Since its establishment in 1998, the Center has been conducting its activities according to its goal “to implement education, public awareness, and protection of human rights to contribute to the solving of human rights problems such as the Dowa Problem, and to raise the awareness of Tokyoites toward human rights Problems.”
In April 2011, this organization obtained accreditation as a Public Interest Incorporated Foundation and is making efforts to develop into an entity with greater utility and public character.
History
April 1971
Establishment of Tokyo Metropolitan Dowa Work Promotion Society
(main activities at this time)
- Loaning of industrial promotion funds
- Loaning of business operating funds
- Deteriorated housing renovation subsidies
- Subsidies to improve the labor health and hygienic environment
- Recreational activities, among others
July 1972
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government establishes the Tokyo Metropolitan Industry and Labor Hall
December 1997
At the Tokyo Metropolitan Dowa Task Force Meeting, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government consolidated the functions of the Tokyo Metropolitan Dowa Work Promotion Society and the Tokyo Metropolitan Industry and Labor Hall to create the Tokyo Metropolitan Human Rights Promotion Center. By creating this new center, the government intends to promote education and public awareness of all human rights-related problems including the Dowa Problem.
July 1998
Establishment of the Tokyo Metropolitan Human Rights Promotion Center (main activities)
- Education and public awareness raising activities
- Lectures, courses, training, and consultation related activities
- Information gathering and provision, research study related activities
- Release of publications
- Entrustment of human rights related educational and public awareness activities conducted by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and by other wards and municipalities
- Entrustment of the management and operation of human rights promotion related facilities
- Other activities necessary to achieve the objectives of corporations
December 2001
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government abolishes the Tokyo Metropolitan Industry and Labor Hall
January 2002
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government establishes the Tokyo Human Rights Plaza
April 2011
Becomes a Public Interest Incorporated Foundation after obtaining accreditation based on “laws relating to general incorporated associations and general incorporated foundations.”
