(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.

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