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Guide to Kyoto Congress "Side Events"
During the Kyoto Congress, side events will be held at the venue for participants in the Kyoto Congress.
The side events are held in a free style, such as panel discussions and presentations, in which governments, international organizations and NGOs will focus on their efforts or subjects that they wish to highlight in connection with the themes of the Kyoto Congress. Various initiatives should be presented to the international community.
Through the side events, the Government of Japan will showcase various initiatives in the field of crime prevention and criminal justice around the world.
Schedule
March 7 (Sun) to 12 (Fri), 2021
Location
Venue of the Congress (Kyoto International Conference Center):
Room A / Room B-2
※The location has been changed from Room B-2, Room D to Room A, Room B-2 (updated on March 3).
List of Side Events organized by the Government of Japan
The side events organized by the Government of Japan are scheduled as shown below.
Side Events organized by japan
Time Table at the Kyoto Internatational conference Center（Room A）
| 7-Mar(Sun) | 8-Mar(Mon) | 9-Mar(Tue) | 10-Mar(Wed) | 11-Mar(Thu) | 12-Mar(Fri) | |
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| ①9:00～10:30 | Rehabilitation and Social Reintegration of Women Prisoners and Offenders |
No one will be left behind - Access to Justice for All -The Global Perspective on Legal Needs Surveys, Client Centered Approach and Legal Social Work - |
Lessons learned from terrorist incidents conducted by Aum Shinrikyo |
Development of Techniques for Combating Poisoning Cases |
Research for the real world |
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| ②11:30～13:00 | Combating Organized Crime - Best Practices on Disrupting Organized Criminal Groups - |
Ministry of Justice Policy Proposal Workshop |
Outline of the Human Rights Volunteers System |
Initiatives for Law-Related Education in Japan |
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| ③14:00～15:30 （※14:30～15:30） |
World Congress for Community Volunteers Supporting Offender Reintegration※ |
Prevention and Control of COVID-19 in Prisons |
Lectures - Enhancing access to justice for the realization of the rule of law |
Follow-up to the UNAFEI training courses and seminars |
Strategies for Effective Border Control |
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| ④16:30～18:00 | World Congress for Community Volunteers Supporting Offender Reintegration |
Challenges and Potential of Social Impact Bond for the Prevention of Recidivism (Reoffending) |
A Panel Discussion on access to justice in Laos, Nepal and Vietnam |
The role of Asian Conference of Correctional Facilities Architects and Planners (ACCFA) - Initiatives to improve architectural planning, designing, building, developing, operation and maintenance for correctional facilities - |
The Rule of Law and International Arbitration/Mediation |
The side events listed here are viewable in real time at each scheduled time through the Online Event Portal, and you can participate for questions online. After closing, you can view the events at any time during the Congress on the same site (on-demand viewing), excluding some side events.
To participate or view the side events, please access to our Online Event Portal. Those who have already registered for the online portal can log in from here
. If you have not registered for the portal yet, please click here for registration and then log in the page.
7-Mar (Sun)
| 7-Mar 14:00-15:30 | Room B-2 | Japan's Criminal Justice System-from a comparative law perspective |
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| International Affairs Division, Minister's Secretariat, Ministry of Justice, Japan | ||
| Scholars from inside and outside of Japan will discuss Japan’s criminal justice system from a comparative law perspective. | ||
| 7-Mar 14:30-15:30 7-Mar 16:30-18:00 |
Room A | World Congress for Community Volunteers Supporting Offender Reintegration |
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| Rehabilitation Bureau, Ministry of Justice, Japan & UNAFEI | ||
| The World Congress for Community Volunteer Supporting Offender Reintegration provides participants with a platform to exchange views on community volunteers in criminal justice system focusing on the hogoshi (volunteer probation officer) system and similar community volunteer systems. Furthermore, the World Congress will offer additional options, values and points of view regarding building an effective probation system on the basis of collaboration of both professionals and volunteers. This event consists of keynote speech and panel discussion followed by the adoption of the World Congress statement (“KYOTO Declaration on Community Volunteers Supporting Offender Reintegration”), which aims to build an international network of community volunteers in the reintegration of offenders and to establish the International Day for Community Volunteers Supporting Offender Reintegration (“HOGOSHI Day”) | ||
8-Mar (Mon)
| 8-Mar 9:00-10:30 | Room A | Rehabilitation and Social Reintegration of Women Prisoners and Offenders |
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| Thai Institute of Justice and UNAFEI | ||
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As a growing body of research suggests, effective rehabilitation programmes play a key role in successfully reintegrating ex-offenders into the community and reducing reoffending. The Revised Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (also known as the Mandela Rules) reaffirms this by highlighting the importance of prisons as a space to not only protect society against crime but also to create a rehabilitative environment for prisoners, encouraging their growth and development, with the aim of reducing recidivism. However, historically, prison rehabilitation and reintegration programmes have been designed for the majority male population. International standards like the United Nations Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-custodial Measures for Women Offenders (the Bangkok Rules) have made it clear that prison rehabilitation programmes should address women’s contexts and their gender-specific needs. And while there has been some effort to ensure women prisoners have access to appropriate programmes in different countries around the world, a large percentage of them reproduce gender stereotypes and fail to address the roots causes of women’s imprisonment. Given that there is evidence between women’s offending and poverty and violence, rehabilitation programmes should aim to address these linkages and create an empowering and rehabilitative atmosphere for women prisoners. The Bangkok Rules suggests that rehabilitation and reintegration programmes for women prisoners should adopt a multi-stakeholder approach involving the government, non-government organisations, the family, community, local service providers, and the private sector. This will create a more holistic rehabilitative environment for women in prison, conducive to their life experiences and needs. This ancillary meeting will be a platform to interact with diverse stakeholders from different parts of the world who work on gender sensitive rehabilitation and social reintegration of women prisoners. It is an opportunity to discuss existing good practices, challenges and the future of gender sensitive rehabilitation. Additionally, this ancillary meeting aims at supplementing the discussion of Workshop 2 at the Crime Congress (Reducing reoffending: identifying risks and developing solutions). |
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| 8-Mar 11:30-13:00 | Room A | Combating Organized Crime - Best Practices on Disrupting Organized Criminal Groups - |
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| Criminal Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Justice, Japan | ||
| This meeting will have a panel discussion focused on best practices in the investigation of organized crimes. | ||
| 8-Mar 14:00-15:30 | Room A | Prevention and Control of COVID-19 in Prisons |
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| Correction Bureau, Ministry of Justice, Japan | ||
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The global pandemic of Covid-19 has had a tremendous impact on people's lives, and correctional facilities are no exception. Hygiene management within correctional facilities is a fundamental element of its operation, but once an infectious disease such as Covid-19 is transmitted from the outside, the environment of a closed correctional facility is at extremely high risk of causing its spread and reveals a vulnerable side. In Japan, we have been working hard to prevent infections based on the "Guidelines for Preventing Infections with New Coronavirus Infections in Correctional Facilities," which was formulated in April 2020 based on the advice of experts on infectious diseases. Although outbreaks have occurred in some facilities so far, and infections have been observed in staff and inmates, measures based on the guidelines are fixed based on the infection situation in society and the outbreak situation of clusters in hospitals. It is working to some extent. This ancillary meeting will share the current situation in Japan, obtain case reports overseas from guest speakers who have the expertise, and provide fresh and practical discussions on measures for Covid-19 in correctional facilities. The purpose is to deepen the understanding of correctional practitioners and researchers. |
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| 8-Mar 16:30-18:00 | Room A | Challenges and Potential of Social Impact Bond for the Prevention of Recidivism (Reoffending) |
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| Secretarial Division, Minister's Secretariat, Ministry of Justice, Japan Social Innovation and Investment Foundation（SIIF） |
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This meeting features Social Impact Bond (SIB), and its possibilities and challenges in the prevention of recidivism (reoffending). Social Impact Bond, also known as pay-for-success financing, is a form of public-private partnership scheme with the use of external private funding to address social challenges. The U.K and the United States have some experiences of SIB for the prevention of recidivism, while Japan has implemented SIB in other areas including the ones for people with poor living conditions. Given those past experiences, the Government of Japan considers the feasibility of SIB for the prevention of recidivism. |
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9-Mar (Tue)
| 9-Mar 9:00-10:30 | Room A | No one will be left behind - Access to Justice for All -The Global Perspective on Legal Needs Surveys, Client Centered Approach and Legal Social Work - |
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| Japan Legal Support Center (JLSC) | ||
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The Japan Legal Support Center (JLSC) is a fully state-funded public corporation established under the Comprehensive Legal Support Act. The main services provided by the JLSC are: (ⅰ) information services, (ⅱ) civil legal aid, (ⅲ) Legal Aid for Criminal Defense, (ⅳ) services for areas with limited legal services, and (ⅴ) crime victim support services. JLSC president Kumiko Bandou welcomes the audience and introduce Professor Alan Paterson, the keynote speaker. Professor Alan Paterson delivers a keynote address (pre-recorded) titled “A Global Perspective on Legal Needs Surveys and Client Centered Approach.” Followed by the keynote address, panelists will discuss the legal needs surveys conducted in Japan, the activity of legal social work by JLSC and the challenges to enhance access to justice throughout the world. |
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| 9-Mar 11:30-13:00 | Room A | Ministry of Justice Policy Proposal Workshop |
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| Correction Bureau, Ministry of Justice, Japan | ||
| Presentation will be held about selected ideas that were discussed by "Ideathon" on recovery support with more than 100 university students. Based on these ideas, the way of the correction in Japan and the future perspectives will be discussed from the worldwide viewpoint. | ||
| 9-Mar 14:00-15:30 | Room A | Lectures - Enhancing access to justice for the realization of the rule of law |
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| International Cooperation Department (ICD), Research and Training Institute, Ministry of Justice of Japan and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) | ||
| A judicial system capable of resolving conflicts in a fair and equal manner is indispensable to the promotion of the rule of law. But a judicial system would be worthless if people, especially vulnerable groups, do not have access to protection or relief to be provided by it. In this ancillary meeting, legal experts from Lao PDR and Nepal will deliver presentations about the situation and challenges concerning access to justice in their respective countries. They will explain about how they are trying to achieve access to justice with a focus on public consciousness and further challenges by giving some concrete examples. We hope that participants will identify and streamline the challenges in their countries, and share knowledge and information regarding enhancement of access to justice. | ||
| 9-Mar 16:30-18:00 | Room A | A Panel Discussion on access to justice in Laos, Nepal and Vietnam |
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| International Cooperation Department (ICD), Research and Training Institute, Ministry of Justice of Japan and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) | ||
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In this panel discussion, the panelists discuss the current/past problems of their countries’ access to justice for vulnerable groups, and introduce/find out the effective solution for these problems. It will be based on the presentations (Lectures; Enhancing access to justice for the realization of the rule of law 9th March 14:00~ JPT) prior to this ancillary meeting. Panelists will discuss on the following topics:
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10-Mar (Wed)
| 10-Mar 9:00-10:30 | Room A | Lessons learned from terrorist incidents conducted by Aum Shinrikyo |
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| Public Security Intelligence Agency | ||
| Bearing in mind that a series of terrorist incidents were conducted by Aum Shinrikyo with sarin gas being used unprecedentedly in the world, a presentation will be held centered on the relevant legislation, namely the Act Regarding the Control of Organizations Which Have Committed Acts of Indiscriminate Mass Murder, that was enacted for the purpose of preventing the recurrence of such terrorist attacks, as well as on the contents of the surveillance disposition that has been imposed to Aum Shinrikyo pursuant to the said Act. | ||
| 10-Mar 11:30-13:00 | Room A | Outline of the Human Rights Volunteers System |
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| Human Rights Bureau, Ministry of Justice, Japan | ||
| This meeting aims at showcasing the Human Rights Volunteers System by Human Rights Volunteers and expert on human rights in Japan. | ||
| 10-Mar 14:00-15:30 | Room A | Follow-up to the UNAFEI training courses and seminars |
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| UNAFEI and ACPF | ||
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This meeting will provide UNAFEI’s alumni experience in the UNAFEI training courses and seminars and how they have made use of knowledge and insights gained through these programmes in order to improve their criminal justice systems. Aiming at promoting and strengthening human networks of criminal justice practitioners across the world, the meeting will also provide an opportunity to discuss with a number of UNAFEI’s former professors and participants in Japan and around the world. |
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| 10-Mar 16:30-18:00 | Room A | The role of Asian Conference of Correctional Facilities Architects and Planners (ACCFA) - Initiatives to improve architectural planning, designing, building, developing, operation and maintenance for correctional facilities - |
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| Facilities Division, Minister's Secretariat, Ministry of Justice, Japan | ||
| The Asian Conference of Correctional Facilities Architects and Planners (ACCFA) aims to improve architectural planning, designing, building, developing, operation and maintenance for correctional facilities in Asian countries. Its member countries will deliver presentations on the advantageous effect from participation in the ACCFA, with the purpose of bringing attention to: 1) the importance of architectural planning, etc. for correctional facilities; as well as to: 2) the significance of the ACCFA; to the participants in Kyoto Congress. | ||
11-Mar (Thu)
| 11-Mar 9:00-10:30 | Room A | Development of Techniques for Combating Poisoning Cases |
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| National Police Agency | ||
In Japan, there are thousands of poisoning cases for a year. Most of those cases are simple or usual and treated by 51 local forensic science laboratories (FSLs). Special, difficult, international or mass-murder cases are handled by National Research Institute of Police Science (NRIPS), National Police Agency, Japan. The main missions of NRIPS in criminal investigation are such difficult caseworks, development of novel technologies for forensic investigation, and education for FSL staffs. Today we will introduce our recent research works as follows:
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| 11-Mar 11:30-13:00 | Room A | Initiatives for Law-Related Education in Japan |
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| Judicial System Department, Minister's Secretariat, Ministry of Justice of Japan | ||
| This meeting will introduce the activities of Law-Related Education in Japan as a good practice for fostering a culture of lawfulness and promoting the rule of law. Presentations by educators and broadcast of videos of Law-Related Education for students will be held. | ||
| 11-Mar 14:00-15:30 | Room A | Strategies for Effective Border Control |
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| Immigration Services Agency | ||
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The number of foreign tourists visiting Japan has been increasing in recent years, and in 2018, exceeded 30 million per annum. At the moment, there has been a temporary decline due to the impact of COVID-19, but since it is essential to stringently prevent the entry of people who pose a high immigration risk such as terrorists, the importance of our border measures is increasing more than ever. The title of the side event is “Strategies for Effective Border Control” at which five speakers will be giving presentations on the screening, inspection, management and operation of “people” and “things” at the airports from their different perspectives of working in the field. |
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| 11-Mar 16:30-18:00 | Room A | The Rule of Law and International Arbitration/Mediation |
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| International Affairs Division, Minister's Secretariat, Ministry of Justice, Japan | ||
| In the midst of rapid globalization and frequent cross-border transactions, the need to develop fair and impartial adjudication processes not only in the field of criminal justice, but also in the field of civil and commercial laws, in order to realize a society in which the Rule of Law prevails has been highlighted. Recently, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) including international arbitration and mediation has become increasingly recognized to be means conducive to achieving cost-effective, swift and flexible settlements of international commercial disputes. This ancillary meeting will provide presentations on international arbitration and mediation in Japan by leading experts in the field and an opportunity for discussions with the participants, with a view to further enhancing the Rule of Law in the world. | ||
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12-Mar (Fri)
| 12-Mar 9:00-10:30 | Room A | Research for the real world |
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| Research Department, Research and Training Institute, Ministry of Justice, Japan | ||
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One of the role of research in criminal justice field is to offer solutions to reduce crimes by scientific methodology and technology. Research institutes are responsible for disseminating reliable knowledge and science-based tools into policymakers, practitioners, and other relevant stakeholders. Criminal behaviors, especially recidivism, are due to a complex combination of various factors, which might hinder relevant stakeholders from finding appropriate solutions. Therefore, the expectation for the research in this field has grown to improve policies and practices in institutional and community settings. This panel discussion aims to deepen the understanding of participants regarding the following topics:
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