A Fireside Chat with Prof Tomoya Obokata

The Human Rights Law Centre is delighted to invite you to our upcoming Fireside Chat with UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, Prof. Tomoya Obokata, co-hosted with the University of Nottingham Rights Lab. 

Prof. Tomoya Obokata was appointed as the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences in March 2020. He is a Japanese scholar of international law and human rights, specialising in transnational organised crime, human trafficking and modern slavery. Prof. Obokata currently serves as Professor of International Human Rights Law at York Law School, and previously taught at Keele University, Queen's University Belfast and Dundee University. He is a graduate of the University of Nottingham School of Law, where he completed his PhD in 2004. 

Prof. Obokata has extensive experience of working on the issues of transnational crime, human trafficking and modern slavery with relevant stakeholders, including the UK Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, the Northern Ireland Assembly All Party Group on Human Trafficking, the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, the International Organisation for Migration and the European Union. He also worked as a legal clerk for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Japan. He has published widely on the topics mentioned.

This event will take place in person only.