Tokyo’s ‘Olympic’ LGBT Non-Discrimination Law

Expand Yuriko Koike, governor of Tokyo, speaks in an interview in Tokyo, Japan on Monday August. 20, 2018.  © 2018 Keith Bedford/Bloomberg via Getty Images Last week Tokyo’s municipal government passed a bill that prohibits discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. In doing so, the city not only demonstrated its commitment to equal rights for all, but also to making the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games a springboard for human rights in Japan and beyond. The new law states that the city government, citizens, and enterprises “may not unduly discriminate on…

© Human Rights Watch - lundi 15 octobre 2018