National Women’s Education Center of Japan

On October 24, Ms. Chan Sotheavy, Secretary of State, Ministry of Justice, Kingdom of Cambodia, visited the National Women’s Education Center (NWEC) and met with Ms. Fusako Utsumi, President of NWEC.

Ms.Chan came to Japan on October 20 to participate in the “Seminar on Promotion of Networking Among Asian Countries on Anti-Human Trafficking,” which was hosted by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).

During her visit, Ms. Chan listened to a lecture on the trafficking in persons in Japan by an expert in migrant labor issues, as well as the NWEC’s report on their training programs to eradicate violence against women.

Ms. Chan had participated in the “Empowerment Seminar for Women Leaders in the Asia Pacific Region,” which was a capacity building seminar sponsored by NWEC in 2008, and this was her second visit to NWEC after an interval of five years.

During the meeting with Ms. Utsumi, they exchanged views on the importance of gender mainstreaming in the judicial related sections.