See a fashion statement on asylum seekers

Distraught over low uptake of Japan for asylum seekers, a group of students organized a fashion show with ethnic clothing for their peers in the harsh reality in disadvantaged educate worldwide.Miu Miu Totes Organized by J-Fun youth group event entitled "Why blue?" Pulled a fashion-conscious young people Thursday impressive 700 students, to commemorate United Nations Day, designated the world's refugees. Twenty models of student sporting a number of ethnic costumes, all based walking on the runway on the shade of blue of the United Nations. Stressed countries including Colombia, where 250,000 people remained internally displaced in 2012 due to the rampant civil war and Myanmar, where, despite recent progress in democratization 400,000 people are still homeless, a reflection of the continuing discrimination of more than 100 ethnic minorities. Japan has also come into limelight, mainly because of its catastrophic acceptance rate for asylum seekers. A total of 2,545 people came to Japan in 2012 in the hope of refugee status, but only 18 to 0.7 percent - had their applications approved. But with today's youth in Japan largely unaware of the situation, sought to show the power of fashion to use Thursday to ignite their interest in the oppressed and those in danger of persecution. Rikkyo University student Tamaki Sakurai, a main organizer of the event, said there are examples in Japan, to help the young people are faced with the difficulties of refugees in the world. "Think out of this mess, we were in the earthquake and tsunami in 2011," Sakurai, based on widespread abnormalities in Tokyo, which left many people unable to return to their homeland traffic has said. "Somehow, that night we had a similar fear of the world's refugees. Prefer young people to Japan to feel better and to stop the problem doing it as something alien and distant." Earlier this week, a refugee support NPOs in Japan reveals to ensure a number of proposals, including legislation to better treatment of asylum seekers. The proposals that the forum has been compiled for refugees in Japan to bring a group of 16 like-minded organizations Japan more in line with the international standards of refugee protection. All proposals, the group hopes to present to the government in the near future, including the requirement that officers refrain in principle to deport asylum seekers or submit to long-term imprisonment. The group criticized the Bureau of Immigration as to whether the accounts of the persecution of the candidates are 100 percent accurate, possessed nothing of her distraught state of mind upon arrival. Despite the low acceptance of refugees, Hiroaki Ishii, director of the Japan Association for Refugees, still believes in Japan, Miu Miu Tote compared with other parts of Asia, has always attached great leadership shown by strong hand to refugees.