Date & time
Venue
Law Lecture Theatre, Building 5, ground floor, ANU College of Law
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Event description
How are Australia’s governments, business and finance sectors, civil society -- and the consuming public -- faring in what is intended to be a shared societal effort to combat contemporary forms of slavery, both ‘onshore’ and in the global supply chains on which we rely?
Join ANU College of Law for this open public discussion with the UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, the Hon. Tomoya Obokata. The Special Rapporteur will share reflections on his mandate, and the efforts of Australia and Australians, as he wraps up the Canberra leg of his official visit to Australia.
The event will be hosted by Professor Jo Ford (ANU Law) and is presented in collaboration with the Centre for International and Public Law.
Speakers
Professor Tomoya Obokata
Prof. Tomoya Obokata (Japan) was appointed as the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences in March 2020. He is a Japanese scholar of international law and human rights, specialising in transnational organised crime, human trafficking and modern slavery. Prof. Obokata currently serves as Professor of International Human Rights Law at York Law School, and previously taught at Keele University, Queen's University Belfast and Dundee University (all in the United Kingdom Great Britain and Northern Ireland). He has extensive experience of working on the issues of transnational crime, human trafficking and modern slavery with relevant stakeholders, including the UK Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, the Northern Ireland Assembly All Party Group on Human Trafficking, the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, the International Organisation for Migration and the European Union. Mr. Obokata also worked as a legal clerk for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Japan.