●Speakers/Facilitators
Please contact here if you would like the NCRC to introduce you a speaker/facilitator (please also note that this is not our guarantee to do so for all cases and that the speakers/facilitators will speak in Japanese only).
Name:Akito Kita
Position:Waseda University’s lecturer and NCRC representative
Possible theme for lecture:The Convention on the Rights of the Child and child rights
Background:
Director of the Japan Education Law Association, Japan Academic Society for Educational Policy, Japan Children’s NPO Center and Child Line Japan; Chairman of the Research Committee on the Kawasaki City Ordinance on the Rights of the Child; and President of City Resident Committee for the Possible Establishment of Meguro City Ordinance on the Rights of the Child. Also involved in the attempt to establish other regional ordinances on child rights.
Name:Shigeto Aramaki
Position:Yamanashi Gakuin University, Department of Law, Graduate Program lecturer and NCRC’s second representative.
Possible theme for lecture:The Convention on the Rights of the Child and child rights
Background:
Born in Fukuoka in 1955. Graduated from the Faculty of Law, Waseda University, including Department of Research under the Faculty of Law from the same university and Senshu University. Lecturing at Komazawa University and the Faculty of Law of Yamanashi Gakuin University, and teaching in the Graduate Program of the Faculty of Law at Yamanashi Gakuin University (on “constitution” and “children and law”, for examples).
He has researched on the mutual complementary protection and mechanism between international and Japanese societies, based on international human rights standard. As the Head of the Secretariat of the General Research Institute on the Convention on the Rights of the Child, he has particularly carried out activities for the development of general and practical research about the convention.
Based on his positions as the President of the Committee of the Kawasaki City Ordinance on the Rights of the Child, and the National Autonomy Symposium, including instructor on human rights and education, he has also contributed in the development of child and education policies in local autonomy.
As the representative of the Committee for NGO Reporting on the Agreement on Social Rights, and one of the main persons in charge for the Committee for NGO Reporting on the Convention on the Rights of the Child, he also works to implement and promote human rights laws, create NGO reports, and coordinate with NGOs and the government.