How can UN experts protect the cleanup workers at Fukushima nuclear power plant?

It is reported that three UN human rights experts urged the Japanese government to take immediate action to protect thousands of workers who cleaned up the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. It is reported that they are exploited and exposed to harmful nuclear radiation.

According to the news, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights and harmful substances and wastes, Tonsek, the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences, Bohula, and the Special Rapporteur on the right to health, Plath 16, said that it is said that the workers employed to clean up the Fukushima nuclear power plant include migrant workers, asylum seekers and homeless people.

Human rights experts said: "We are deeply concerned about the exploitation that may be caused by concealing the risk of exposure to nuclear radiation, being forced to accept dangerous working conditions due to economic difficulties, and lack of training and protection measures ... We are also worried about the impact of nuclear radiation on physical and mental health."

Seven years after the Fukushima nuclear accident, pollution and nuclear radiation in this area are still the main dangers faced by cleanup personnel. Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare pointed out that 46,386 workers were employed in 20 16, and Japan's Central Registration Center for Radiation Workers pointed out that in the five years before 20 16, 769,565,438 workers were employed to clean up nuclear pollution.

Experts say that the people who are most exposed to toxic substances are those who are most vulnerable to exploitation: the poor, children and women, migrant workers, the disabled and the elderly. They are forced to choose between health and income, and most consumers and decision makers who have the ability to change this situation can't see their plight.

It is reported in detail that several large companies have contracted to clean up nuclear pollution, and hundreds of small companies with no relevant experience have subcontracted it. These are all issues that everyone cares about. This arrangement and the use of intermediary agencies to recruit a large number of workers may create favorable conditions for the abuse and violation of workers' rights.