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(ILO
Bangkok
) Ms Mayumi Moriyama, President of the Japanese Parliamentarians’
League on the International Labour Organization (ILO) Activities and
Member of the House of Representatives, visited
Thailand
from 19 to 23 August to familiarize herself with ILO activities in
Asia Pacific region.
During her six day visit she was briefed on the latest developments in
ILO work by Ms Sachiko Yamamoto, ILO Regional Director for
Asia
and the Pacific. She also
met officials of the Thai Government Bureau for Anti-Trafficking in
Women and Children and visited Ban Kretrakarn, a shelter for
trafficked returnees.
In
Chiang
Rai
Province
she visited a school funded by the AEON Company with ILO technical
support that offers vocational training courses and a Self-
Empowerment Programme of Migrant Women (SEPOM), financed by the
Japanese Human Security Fund. She also met the provincial Governor, Mr
Amornpan Nimanandh.
Ms Moriyama is one of
Japan
’s most distinguished parliamentarians. She entered politics in 1950
and has sat in the House of Representatives since 1995.
She has served as Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of
Education and Minister of Justice.
Japan
is the second largest donor to the ILO’s overall regular budget,
providing around US$60 million in 2007 (19.5 per cent of the overall
requirement). In
Asia and the Pacific alone,
Japan
provided US$2,590,000 (extra budgetary resources) for ILO programmes
plus almost US$2 million through its Human Security Fund in 2006.
Photo 1:
Ms Moriyama was welcomed by a student at the
Janjawah
School
, Chiang Rai, which offers vocational training funded by AEON with ILO
technical support.
Photo 2:
From left: Mr Shinichi
Hasegawa, Director, ILO Office in Japan; Ms Mayumi Moriyama; Mr
Amornpan Nimanandh, Governor of Chiang Rai; Ms Kusumal Rachawong,
National Project Officer, ILO Mekong Subregional Project to Combat
Trafficking in Children and Women in front of Chiang Rai City Hall.
Photo 3:
Mr Shinichi Hasegawa, Director, ILO Office in
Japan
(2nd right) and Ms Moriyama (3rd right) visit
Ban Kretrakarn shelter for returned trafficked victims.
For more information:
Krisdaporn Singhaseni
Information Officer, ILO
Tel. 02 288 1664
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