Topic: Protecting the Human Right to Peaceful Protest
Country: Japan
Delegate Name: Adrienna Martinez
School: Saginaw Arts and Sciences Academy
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Japan position papers GLIMUN 2013 committees
Throughout the world, there are differing opinions on protecting the right of peaceful protest. Some countries, such as a few in the Middle East, are not for the idea of peaceful protests, or protests in general. The rights of peaceful protests should be protected because of the freedom of speech and the freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
Japan allows people to assemble and protest peacefully, due to their constitution and the civil rights included in it. Recently, there are have been many protests about the U.S. Military having bases set up in Japan. They have all been peaceful and the government has been slowly taking into consideration of what the protesters were feeling oppressed about. Most protests held in Japan go very well and are peaceful, but at the same time, also gets the point across easily without much controversy. Though there is some controversy, it’s not so much about the actual rights of the protesters and more so the topic being protested about. Japan is very neutral to the right of peaceful protest, unless things began to get out of hand, such as violence.
People should have the right to protest whatever they want to as long as they comply to not being violent or discriminative against whoever or whatever they maybe protesting about. These rights should also protect the protesters so that they are not discriminated against or injured while they are merely voicing their opinions on some rather controversial topics. The world should be much more open to their people discussing their opinions, though some countries strongly disagree.
