Ruler on 13 February 2016
UN Challenging Japan’s Treatment of Women, Suggests Ban of Erotic Japanese Games
BY: ALEXIS NASCIMENTO-LAJOIE ON FEBRUARY 12, 2016, 3:48 PM EDT @STONEYDUCKY
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), will be examining (SOURCE, our mobile URLs show up the same as regular text – working on a fix) Japan’s record on women’s rights. The reason this has gotten onto our radar is that one of the possible talking points is the “banning of the sale of video games or cartoons involving sexual violence against women.” The wording of the phrase could imply that they’ll be discussing banning eroge games likeRapelay (or other games of that nature), but with no clear guidelines as to what “sexual violence” entails, it feels like the definition can be used to include games that aren’t even eroge. The discussion will be broadcasted live on the Treaty Body Webcast site.
