The Japanese government has responded to a United Nations committee's recommendation to revise a law that limits imperial succession to male offspring in the male line.

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 perspecti

Japan’s response to a United Nations report concerning discrimination against women is at odds with one of its basic foreign policy principles.

Japan has hit back at a U.N. panel over its recommendation to revise the Imperial House Law by denying it access to the country's voluntary contributions to the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Foreign Press Secretary Toshihiro Kitamura said at a press conference Wednesday that "qualifications for the Imperial throne are not included in basic human rights and do not constitute discrimination against women.

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,

Kazakhstan should promptly express its support for and implement the recommendations made by member states at the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process, Human Rights Watch said today.

The Japanese government announces countermeasures against a U.N. committee on discrimination against women that has called for reviewing Japan's male-only imperial succession law.

President Trump sees “great promise" in the United Nations, according to his U.N. ambassador nominee Elise Stefanik, who is expected to promise to bring “reform" to the organization.

Volker Turk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has launched an appeal to raise USD 500 million for 2025 to address global human rights needs.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Embassy of Japan have partnered to enhance birth registration services in 12 municipalities in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (Barmm).

Tokyo to ensure no funding goes to Committee on Elimination of Discrimination against Women, says foreign ministry - Anadolu Ajansı