WebinarWednesday 27 May 2020
2:00pm – 3:00pm
Domestic violence as a threat to world public health
This event will start at 2pm BST (British Summer Time)
Organised by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation
Fully bookedIn this webinar, Yuri Morita discussed family violence in Japan, and the lack of adequate legal measures to protect against it or to enable preventative interventions. She highlighted recent severe cases of domestic violence and child abuse during the ongoing pandemic stay-home policy, and called for all governments to recognise family violence as a pressing public health issue along with COVID-19. She also called for men around the world to play an active role in preventing domestic violence, having taken a deep look at why men have accounted for the majority of violence throughout human history.
A video of the webinar can be found here:
About the contributors
Yuri Morita
Yuri Morita is Director of the Empowerment Center in Osaka. The Center offers professional training and consultation to government entities, companies, workers and volunteers on the topics of diversity, human rights, communication, prevention of harassment, and strategies to prevent violence against children and women. She is recognised as a pioneer of participatory-style training and consultation on diversity and human rights. She has been a strong advocate of non-violence and empowerment as a professional trainer, a lobbyist to the Diet, and an author and storyteller.
She has published 31 books, two of which received national awards, the Asahi Journal Non-Fiction Grand Award and the Sankei Children’s Book Award. She has also received numerous awards for leadership, including the 57th National Public Health Award for her 25 years of leadership and pioneering work in the field of prevention of violence against women and children. In 2000, she developed the MY TREE Program for parents to recover from abusive relationships with their children. The Program has been implemented in Japan for the last 20 years, helping more than 1400 parents.
She holds a Master’s degree from the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California. She worked for the California state office of child abuse prevention as a trainer of prevention specialists, and subsequently as diversity trainer for the Vice-President’s Office of the University of California, developing and conducting diversity training for staff and faculty of the UC system. She has served as a Visiting Professor at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto.