It’s Time to Enact Japan’s Magnitsky Act
Such legislation would boost Japan’s credentials as a defender of human rights and practitioner of values-based diplomacy.
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February 27, 2021
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On January 27, a group met to discuss establishing a multiparty parliamentary group to enact a Japanese version of the Magnitsky Act. The proposed legislation aims to take punitive measures against individuals and organizations involved in human rights violations overseas. The meeting included former Defense Minister Nakatani Gen of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), former State Minister of Finance Toyama Kiyohiko of Komeito (the LDP’s coalition partner), Yamao Shiori of the opposition Democratic Party for the People, and Kushida Seiichi of the conservative opposition Japan Innovation Party.
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Dame Meg Taylor. Picture: AFP
SUVA, 25 FEBRUARY 2021 (PIFS) – Forum Secretary General Dame Meg Taylor has welcomed Fiji parliamentary standing committee consideration of the 2005 revision of the founding agreement of the Pacific Islands Forum.
Secretary General Taylor and Deputy Secretary General Dr Filimon Manoni appeared virtually on Monday 22 February before a five-member panel considering submissions on the 2005 Agreement Establishing the Pacific Islands Forum.
The Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence convened after the Fiji Government Cabinet recently endorsed a proposal to ratify the 2005 Agreement. Fiji and several other Forum members signed the Agreement at the Forum Leaders Meeting in Papua New Guinea in 2005.
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24 February, 2021, 11:30 pm
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres with Prime Minister of Tuvalu, Enele Sopoaga, Pacific Island Forum Secretariat Secretary-General Dame Meg Taylor, Prime Minister of Samoa, Tuilaepa Sailele Malielega, and President of the Republic of Nauru Baron Waqa, with Pacific Island Forum Secretariat staff members at the Pacific Island Forum Secretariat in Suva on Wednesday, May 15, 2019. Picture: JONACANI LALAKOBAU
PACIFIC Islands Forum members can withdraw at any time because the organisation is still very much a voluntary association of independent states.
This was the view expressed by renowned Fijian academic and director of the Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies at the University of Canterbury, Dr Steven Ratuva.
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