US EditionJapan to halt funding for a UN women's rights panel over call to end male-only imperial succession
- Japan will freeze voluntary funding for a United Nations women’s rights panel due to its call to end the male-only imperial succession rule.
- The decision follows a report by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women urging Japan to allow a female emperor.
- Japan's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Toshihiro Kitamura confirmed the exclusion of the U.N. panel from funding recipients.
- The committee's report stated that the succession rule is contrary to 'the object and purpose' of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.
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Japan announced on Thursday that it would no longer fund a UN committee on women's rights and cancelled a visit by one of its members, following calls for the body to change its current rules.
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