Letter to Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan

February 13, 2020 Shinzo Abe Prime Minister of Japan Cabinet Secretariat Government of Japan 1-6-1 Nagata-cho, Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 100-8968 Japan Re: Joint Open Letter on Japan’s Recent Disengagement in Addressing Human Rights Abuses in North Korea Dear Prime Minister Abe,　 In advance of the March session at the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) session, we are writing on behalf of 54 non-governmental organizations, coalitions, and concerned individuals from Japan, Asia, Latin America, Africa, Europe and North America about your government’s recent disengagement on human rights issues in the Democratic…

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