Japan’s Human Rights Guidelines for Companies Provide an Opportunity for Global Leadership (2)
On February 14, Minister of Economy, Trade, and Industry Hagiuda Koichi announced that the Japanese government would provide comprehensive guidelines to Japanese companies to help them identify and address potential human rights abuses in their global supply chains.
These guidelines help fulfill a commitment made by the Japanese government in its 2020 National Action Plan (NAP) on Business and Human Rights and by G7 trade ministers in December 2021.
I would like tentatively to share the commentary dated May 19, by Ms. Marti Flacks, the Khosravi Chair in Principled Internationalism and director of the Human Rights Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C, and Madeleine Songy, an intern with the CSIS Human Rights Initiative.
