The Global Human Rights Summit was held in Tokyo, on Dec.13, organized by Worldwide Support for Development (WSD)., and co-organized by the Human Rights Resource Center and the WSD Handa Center for Human Rights and International Justice at Stanford University.
The aim of the summit was to raise global awareness to combat human trafficking. On that day, experts, learned men in the various fields including legislators, lawyers, human rights activists and former ambassadors and government officials of ASEAN members and other countries, joined the summit.
Valerie Amos, the director of the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London as well as the undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator at the U.N., said in a panel discussion at the summit, "Modern-day slavery is a multibillion dollar industry and it's a big business...Every country is affected by modern-day slavery in some way."
The panel discussion held in the morning and others in the afternoon were presided over by Dr.Haruhisa Handa,
World Support Development Chairman Dr.Haruhisa Handa addresses the audience at the WSD Global Human Rights Summit in Japan, held in Tokyo on Dec.13. WSD |
(source: THE JAPAN TIMES, Decemer.22, 2015)
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/2015/12/22/special-supplements/global-human-summit/
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