Yayoi Hasegawa : Lawyer in Japan Ex-vice chair of the Committee of International Human Rights (CIHR) in JFBA In this session, we shared our experience and knowledge of online-based violence against women. Our panel consists of the following distinguished lawyers. Ms. Gema Gita Persada, Public Interest Lawyer at Legal Aid Center for the Press in Indonesia. Mr. Hirotaka Honda, Chair of the LGBT rights project of Japan Federation of Bar Association Ms. Madhavi Goradia Divan, Senior Adovocate in the Supreme Court of India And our session was moderated by the following lawyers. Mr. Saroj K Ghi ..read more

Yuko Kirimoto: Lawyer in Japan.  an associate at Tokyo Surugadai Law Offices, a member of the Refugee Committee of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations (JFBA), the vice-chair of the Human Rights  Committee for Foreign Nationals of Tokyo Bar Associations. 1.The number of forced displacement and migrant, including of refugees, is increasing due to escalating conflicts and new outbreaks of conflict around the world. More than 100 million people have been forcibly displaced in 2022, the largest number ever. Many migrants and refugees face vulnerable situation in human rights bec ..read more

Teppei Ono: Lawyer in Japan. Vice-Chair of JFBA’s International Human Rights Committee. Secretary General of Center for Prisoners’ Rights       Over the past decade, there is a worldwide tendency towards decline in the use of the death penalty. As for now, some 170 States have abolished or introduced a moratorium on the death penalty either in law or in practice. In spite of this global trend, many Asian countries including Japan, India and Malaysia still retain their death penalty systems. The road to abolition seems to be a quite long one, but there have been some p ..read more

Mina Kobayashi: Lawyer admitted in Japan and New York. Member of Committee on International Human Rights, Business and Human Rights PT and Committee on National Human Rights Institution at the Japan Federation of Bar Associations (JFBA). It has been over a decade since the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) were unanimously endorsed by the UN Human Rights Council in 2011. The world has seen significant progress in the implementation of human rights principles on, and by, companies. However, progress has been slow on the UNGPs’ third pillar, which addresses the prov ..read more

Prof Yasushi Higashizawa: Lawyer in Japan.  Professor of the Meijigakuin University (Tokyo).  Former Co-Chair of the LAWASIA Human Rights Committee. This session aimed to discuss on how bar associations/ law societies, either national or international, could work together to support cross-border victims of armed conflicts (ACs) and gross violation of human rights (GVHRs).  The panel consisted of and was moderated by following lawyers: Mr. Motoji KOBAYASHI, President of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations Mr. Prashant KUMAR, President of the Bar Association of India Ms ..read more

Mami Ishida: Attorney-at-law in Japan Secretary general of the Working Group on International Human Rights Conventions of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations (JFBA). Facilitator of Japan Lawyers Network for Refugees School lawyer in Hyogo Prefecture The deterioration of our living environment due to global warming and other factors is a top priority agenda requiring concerted global　efforts. Environmental degradation threatens the survival of children, who are our future. The prevention of such degradation and the provision of a safe environment for　  them will, above all ..read more

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Mr Shanmuga Kanesalingam, Co-Chair of the LAWASIA Human Rights Committee The 4th LAWASIA Human Rights Conference 2023 was held in early September in Fukuoka, Japan. The LAWASIA Human Rights Committee Co-Chair, Shanmuga Kanesalingam, gave the following welcoming remarks: After the challenges of the past few years, we are very thankful to the Japan Federation of Bar Associations (“JFBA”) and the Fukuoka Bar Association (“FBA”) for organizing this physical conference in this beautiful city. We very much appreciate the efforts of the hard working and dedicated team from both these bar association ..read more

Author: Ms Chong Jen Hui, Senior Associate, Steven Thiru & Sudhar Partnership The 4th Human Rights Conference 2023 organised by the LAWASIA’s Human Rights Committee, in association with the Japan Federation of Bar Associations and the Fukuoka Bar Association, successfully concluded on 4th September 2023. The Conference, which lasted from the 2nd to 4th of September 2023, was the first in-person conference organised by the LAWASIA Human Rights Committee after the COVID-19 pandemic, and was organised in the beautiful city of Fukuoka, Japan. With an impressive turnout of over ..read more

Mark Daly, Human Rights Lawyer | Daly & Associates – July 2020 “China has become a superpower, and that has brought not confidence or magnanimity, but menace and insecurity. The country’s expanding wealth and hawkish posturing conceal a shrinking civic space.” These are the words of Yangyang Cheng, a particle physicist at Cornell University reflecting on her motherland in the context of a story on traditional Chinese medicine in an opinion piece titled “The China I carry”. READ THE FULL ARTICLE ..read more