Japan: Adopt LGBT Equality Act Before Olympics

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee President Seiko Hashimoto, left, speaks to media after a video conference with the IOC executive board in Tokyo, Japan, February 24, 2021. © 2021 Takashi Aoyama/Pool Photo via AP (Tokyo) – The Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (TOCOG) should support LGBT nondiscrimination legislation to protect everyone in Japan from discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity, seven members of TOCOG’s Human Rights, Labor, and Participation Committee said. In a February 26, 2021 letter to TOCOG’s new…

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