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Global News Podcast

Japan top court rules forced sterilisation unconstitutional

Global News Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Daily News, News, Documentary

4.27.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The court has also ruled that Japan's twenty-year statute of limitations does not apply in such cases, paving the way for thousands to seek redress. Also: the United Nations says aid sent to the people of Sudan has been looted on an industrial scale, a mother says she killed her terminally ill seven year old son to end his suffering, and voters in the UK go to the polls on Thursday, we look at the issue of immigration.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

0:03.6

I'm Janet Jalil and at 13 hours GMT on Wednesday the 3rd of July,

0:09.3

these are our main stories.

0:11.2

Japan's Supreme Court rules that thousands of disabled people who were

0:14.9

forcibly sterilized can claim compensation. With more than 120 people now

0:21.4

said to have been crushed to death at a religious gathering in India

0:25.0

could more have been done to save them.

0:27.0

The United Nations says aid sent to the people of Sudan has been looted on an industrial scale by the warring parties.

0:35.0

Also in this podcast a mother says she killed her terminally ill seven-year-old son to end his suffering.

0:45.0

I said, would you like me to remove the pain?

0:48.0

And he said, yes, please, Mama.

0:50.0

I gave him a large dose of morphine.

0:54.0

And the controversy over the E- Sports World Cup in Saudi Arabia.

0:59.0

Yumi Suzuki was born with cerebral palsy.

1:06.0

When she was just 12 years old, she was forcibly sterilized under a Japanese eugenics law which saw thousands of people sterilized against their will for decades

1:17.0

until as recently as the 1990s.

1:20.0

Now at the age of 68 she has finally received a measure of justice.

1:27.0

In a landmark ruling, the Japanese Supreme Court has ordered the government to pay compensation to her and ten other plaintiffs.

1:35.0

Here she is speaking to the BBC in 2021.

1:39.0

When I found out I realized I could never be a mother it broke my heart. I faced

1:46.6

discrimination from when I was small but this was very different. I don't want

1:51.0

money I want people to know what happened to us to make sure it never happens again

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