26.
According to the aforementioned survey conducted by the NHRCK with regard to hate speech, all
of the respondents (about 1,000 persons) who are women, sexual minorities, persons with disabilities or
migrants were fearful of hate speech and felt threatened by relevant crimes, and some of them even hid their
identity in fear of their exposure to hate speech and relevant crimes. More than half of the respondents said
that they did not know how to react any hate speech made online or offline against themselves.
Are you fearful of hate speech?
(Unit: %)
Respondent groups
Women
Sexual minorities
Persons with disabilities
Migrants
Never
Hardly
16.8
4.7
8.0
27.0
To some extent
19.2
10.5
21.5
20.6
Very much
49.0
52.2
45.5
33.3
14.9
32.5
25.0
19.0
Do you know how to react online hate speech?
(Unit: %)
Respondent groups
Don’t know much
Know well
Women
Sexual minorities
Persons with disabilities
Migrants
7.2
7.1
14.5
24.6
Don’t know
34.1
34.6
39.0
29.4
58.7
58.3
46.5
46.0
Do you know how to react offline hate speech?
(Unit: %)
Respondent groups
Women
Sexual minorities
Persons with disabilities
Migrants
Don’t know much
Know well
7.7
9.8
17.5
31.0
33.2
32.9
37.0
29.4
Don’t know
59.1
57.3
45.5
39.7
Questions suggested
27.
Sexual harassment at workplace is a serious violation of human rights, as it does not only infringe
upon an individual victim’s right of personality but also violate the victim’s right to life in an extreme case.
Please specify the measures that Government has taken to reduce sexual harassment at workplaces and in
schools, and the effects of those measures. Please also specify the current situations on the new forms of
online sexual violence problems, including those in SNSs, particularly due to the development of
information and communication technologies, secondary damages of sexual harassment and sexual violence
among the students at school, and the Government’s planned actions to address these problems.
28.
It is quite agreeable that the Government has made efforts to expand employment assistance for
women on career breaks, including vocational consulting and vocational training or education for them.
Despite these efforts, however, the reality is that working women still suffer discrimination in remuneration
and job promotion, and the public sector also seems to have room for improvement in this regard. Please
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