"Statement from Participating Legislators of the 2023 IPAC Tokyo Symposium" 17 Feb 2023

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This year marks the 75th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations General Assembly. Members of IPAC, along with the international community, must come together as one to raise our voices and take action. As the chair of the G7, Japan in particular, must shift towards a more proactive human rights  agenda. With this being the case, we recommend the following as concrete policies to achieve these goals.

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3. Human Rights and Business

Each country will develop capacity-building and legislation on “human rights and business”, including strengthening human rights due diligence, removing products made through human rights violations from their markets, and regulating the export of products and technologies that could be used to violate human rights, to prevent governments, businesses, and consumers from unintentionally and indirectly contributing to human rights violations. Japan should go beyond the guidelines for human rights due diligence and work towards a law with effective implementation. Japan should also initiate discussions on market access for products made by human rights violations and export controls on human rights grounds.

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