Rejected petition Stop whaling in the Antarctic

Despite the global ban on commercial whaling Japan has unilaterally decided to resume whaling in the Southern Ocean defying a ruling by the International Court of Justice that Japan should cease all whaling.

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Date submitted 31 May 2016
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