Mobilizing Labor - Editorial

Ending Forced Labor in Uzbekistan's Cotton Fields - Why Only an Enabling Environment for Civil Society Can Ensure Sustainability of Reforms

This is a presentation on the need to ensure that proper measures are in place to prevent the return of forced labor to the cotton fields of Uzbekistan.

- Lynn Schweisfurth

Viral Disruption and Labor Rearrangement: COVID-19 and its Impact on the Procurement of Migrant Healthcare Workers for Japan

This is discussion on an innovative system of getting health workers from other countries to address the shortage of labor for the elderly care in Japan.

- Mario Lopez

Situation of Human Rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Report of the United Nations Secretary-General

This is an excerpt of a July 2022 report of the United Nations Secretary-General on the human rights situation in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

Summer SDGs Festival for Youth

This is a short report on the 2022 Summer SDGs Festival for Youth held in Osaka city.

- Yuyu Hosokawa

A Tribute to Kinhide Mushakoji

This is a tribute to the late Professor Kinhide Mushakoji who played a role in the Asian-level work on human rights since the 1970s.

- Jefferson R. Plantilla