TIJ Signed MoU with UNAFEI to promote the rule of law

21 September 2016 - Dr. Kittipong Kittayarak and TIJ executives visited Tokyo, to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between TIJ and the United Nations Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (UNAFEI), the oldest member of the United Nations Programme Network Institutes (PNI). The MoU focuses on the collaboration on promoting the rule of law for crime prevention and criminal justice, the first MoU after TIJ joined the PNI.


In addition, TIJ team was invited to observe UNAFEI’s 164th international seminar on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders and to study the treatment of juvenile offenders at Aiko Juvenile Training School for Girls.


Dr. Kittipong Kittayarak also met with Mr. Hiromu Kurokawa, Permanent secretary of Justice, and Mr. Tatsuya Sakuma, Director of the Legal Training and Research Institute of Japan.