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The survey was conducted among the general public and included questions on experience and
perception of human rights violation and discrimination in the military, experience and perception
of violation by type of rights and discrimination, and women’s experience of discrimination or
human rights violations in terms of selection, assignment, and promotion.
F. Preliminary Study on Discrimination Criteria
To establish more credible discrimination criteria, the Commission conducted a study to review
for Assessing Discrimination sort out the precedents by reasons of discrimination. Significant
precedents.
In the study, 3,200 or so petitions processed over the ten years from 2009 to 2018 were analyzed,
which included not only those that the Commission made a recommendation or expressed an
opinion, but also those that were dismissed because the discrimination was not without a justifiable
reason, and those dismissed because that they did not fall under the scope of investigation. In
this analysis, a review was made of the rationale used in determining whether an act constituted
discrimination or whether a petition would be subject to investigation.
The result of the study showed that the Commission was flexible in applying various
discrimination decision criteria and rationale, but there was room for improvement in terms of
consistency and clarity in applying those criteria. Based on the findings, the Commission will
further review the relevant laws, regulations, criteria, and precedents of other countries, and refine
the discrimination decision criteria.
G. Survey to Monitor Implementation of the State Report for Mentally
persons with mental disabilities
In 2009, the Commission published the State Report to Safeguard and Promote the Rights of
Persons with Mental Disabilities, and made policy recommendations to the Prime Minister and the
Minister of Health and Welfare. To monitor how conditions have changed over the ten years that
followed, the Commission carried out a survey of people with mental disabilities, their families,
and mental healthcare workers.
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legislative and social changes in the following ten years warranted an updated analysis of the latest
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and analyze all existing precedents related to discrimination decisions. The 2018 Guidelines