TOKYO (AP) — Japan on Wednesday said it will freeze voluntary funding for a United Nations’ women’s rights panel that called for an end to the country’s male-only imperial succession rule. The unusual step comes in response to a report published in October by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, or CEDAW, urging Japan to revise the male-only succession rule under the Imperial House Law to allow a female emperor. The …

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Japan on Wednesday said it will freeze voluntary funding for a United Nations’ women’s rights panel that called for an end to the country’s male-only imperial succession rule.

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Japan said it would not fund a UN women's rights committee and suspended a member's visit over calls for the nation to change its male-only imperial succession rules. Chief cabinet secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi said Thursday that a visit by a member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women would be called off, and financial contributions not made. In October, the UN committee said Japan should "guarantee the equality …

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Japan is to freeze voluntary funding for a United Nations’ women’s rights panel over its recommendation that Japan’s male-only imperial succession rule should be revised from gender-equality perspectives

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Japan said it would not fund a UN women's rights committee and suspended a member's visit over calls for the nation to change its male-only imperial succession rules.

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The measure comes in response to a report published in October by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW, in its original name), which urged Japan to review the rules for succession and allow an empress to enter the scene. The Imperial House Act of 1947 maintains Japan's conservative values prior to World War II on a grand scale and only allows one man to succeed the throne. Likewise, the legislation requires tha…

A medida surge em resposta a um relatório publicado em outubro pelo Comité para a Eliminação da Discriminação contra as Mulheres (CEDAW, no nome original), que instou o Japão a rever as normas para a sucessão e permitir a entrada em cena de uma imperatriz.   A Lei da Casa Imperial, de 1947, mantém em grande escala os valores conservadores do Japão anteriores à Segunda Guerra Mundial e apenas permite que seja um homem a suceder ao trono. De igual…

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Japan rejects UN suggestion to review male-only imperial succession law

The law allows only male descendants from the paternal line of the imperial family to become emperor.

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