Japan: NO JUSTICE WITHOUT LIFE 2014 - Justice and Human Rights - Thursday, October 23rd, 2014

NO JUSTICE WITHOUT LIFE 2014

Thursday, October 23^rd, 2014

10:00 am – 12:30 am

House of Representatives

First Members' Office Bldg. 1F - Congress Hall

2-1-2 Nagata-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8981

Justice and Human Rights

The Rule of Law, Justice and Punishment, International Standards:

The World and Japan in Dialogue

Tentative Program

Opening Greetings

Alberto Quattrucci Secretary General of Peoples and Religions, Community of Sant’Egidio

Jonathan Hatwell CVDeputy Head of Delegation – EU Delegation to Japan

Lorenzo Morini
Minister Counselor of the Embassy of Italy

Introductory Lectures

Mario MarazzitiChairman of the Permanent Commission for Human Rights
to the Italian House of Representatives

Shizuka Kamei

Chairman of the Parliamentary League for the Abolition of Death Penalty 
to the Japanese House of Representatives

VIDEO

Contributions

Mizuho FukushimaMember of the House of Councilors of Japan

Isamu UedaMember of the House of Representatives of Japan

Nobuto HosakaMayor of Setagawa

Yuji Ogawara
Secretary General of JFBA's Committee on Abolition of the Death Penalty

Naoko Shimaya
Lawyer of Forum ‘90, to obtain the ratification
of the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR by the Japanese Government

Andrea OrtolaniSecretary General of AIGDC Italian-Japanese Association for Comparative Law 

Hideki WakabayashiSecretary General of Amnesty International Japan

Martin KoellingEast Asian correspondent of Handelsblatt, Germany

Pio d’Emilia (TBC)
journalist and writer, correspondent of Sky Tg24, Italy

Witnesses

Mitsuhide Yashiro
Lawyer of the Fukuoka case

Iwao Hakamadainnocent, world’s longest-held 
death row inmate - 46 years - freed on March 27^th, 2014

Hideko HakamadaHakamada case