l'ONU demande au Japon de mener des examens sur les contaminations internes liées à Fukushima

Grover made the call in a report after conducting research on the radiation exposure issue as a representative of a U.N. team on behalf of the U.N. Human Rights Council.

Specifically, the report urges the Japanese government to conduct health checkups on people in areas with exposure doses of over 1 millisievert annually, within or outside Fukushima Prefecture. The report will be submitted to the council in the near future.

In the report, Grover takes issue with Fukushima Prefecture’s action to limit examinations of internal radiation exposure of children to thyroid glands and asking the prefectural government to carry out urine and blood tests to deal with the possibility of developing leukemia and other diseases. He also advises the prefectural government to correct the current procedures, in which image data and reports on thyroid gland tests are not delivered to parents. Instead they are asked to go through cumbersome procedures to request disclosure of information.

In addition, the report urges the central government to limit radiation doses to ordinary people to an annual limit of 1 millisievert and conduct health checks for residents in areas with the potential to top the limit. The report points out that the Japanese government’s evacuation standard of 20 millisieverts a year should be cut to 1 millisievert or less from the standpoint of human rights.

In addition, the report also expresses concern about details of support and the coverage area despite the enactment of a measure in June last year to support children’s health and life after their evacuations from radiation-affected zones.

The report urges the central government to offer evacuees from zones with radiation doses of more than 1 millisievert with housing, educational and medical assistance.