Modern Slavery Act Statement Workshop in Tokyo on Friday 2nd March 2018.
The end of the 2017 Financial Year is likely to be approaching. The UK Modern Slavery Act
2015 (MSA) requires businesses operating in UK (with a turnover of £36 million or more) topublish an annual modern slavery statement within the six months after the end of theorganisation’s financial year. In compliance with the MSA, companies are required to show
the steps they have taken to eradicate modern slavery and human trafficking and demonstrate
improvements on their previous MSA Statement. To support Japanese companies who arerequested to do so, Ardea International and Caux Round Table Japan will be hosting a joint
workshop in Tokyo on Friday 2nd March 2018.
*Ardea International and Caux Round Table announced their partnership in 2017, and this willbe the first jointly hosted workshop with Colleen Theron in Japan.
Participants companies will receive 1-2 pages written feedback on their MSA Statement. MSA
Statements will need to be submitted by Wednesday 14th February 2018. Please note that 1) a
draft of MSA Statement OR one from the previous year can be submitted, but NOT the BOTH,2) wherever possible, please submit drafts both in English and Japanese, 3) a section of yourMSA Statement may be shared among participants (as a case to show how to meet the legal
requirement, but will not be disclosed to the public), 4) companies who do not submit thedraft/previous MSA Statement can also attend the workshop, but the feedback cannot beprovided and the cost cannot be deducted, 5) the workshop will be held under Chatham House
rules.
We welcome managers and staff of Japanese companies who are drafting the MSA Statement
for the first time, and/or, who want to know how a company can improve their MSA Statementfrom their previous one, to best meet the legal requirements.
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Date: Friday 2nd March 2018, 9.30am to 12pm
Venue: AP Tokyo Marunouchi at Nippon Life Marunouchi Garden Tower 3F, 1-1-3
Marunouchi Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 100-0005
Target participants: Managers and staff who are in charge of drafting the MSA Statement atcompanies (possibly from Legal, Procurement, CSR, Human Resources, General Affairs,Human Rights department)
Up to: 7 companies, 3 people can attend from each company

1Price: 500,000 JPY (about 3,254GBP) per each company (tax is not included). The priceincludes a written review and feedback for your draft/previous MSA statement (up to 5pages). The workshop will include recommendations for improvements and reference to bestpractice.
Language: English and Japanese (consecutive translator will be provided)
Registration: Please send E-mail to info@crt-japan.jp and inform us the following points:1.Company name2.Participants (You can register up to 3 people.)a.Nameb.Titlec.Phone No.
d.E-mail address
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Agenda1. Introduction to the Modern Slavery Act, and its trends (50 mins)
2. What a MSA statement should include, with some cases (25 mins)
3. Feedback session for companies’ draft (pre-submission required) (75 mins)a. 15 mins to review the feedbackb. 35 mins to share companies’ comments on the feedback, and/or raise questions
c. 15 mins to provide an explanation on best practiced. 10 mins to advise 3 key next steps on how a company will implement what thecompany is saying in its statements.
Presenters
Colleen Theron, Director, Ardea International
Specialist modern slavery expert, environmental, business and human rights lawyer. Founderand Director of Ardea International, a niche consultancy supporting organisations onenvironmental, business and human rights and modern slavery issues in supply chains. Triqualified as a solicitor in England and Wales, Scotland and South Africa.
Colleen has been actively providing advice to companies who face modern slavery risks in theUK and was involved with the consultation of the draft Bill and MSA TISC (Transparency inSupply Chains Clause) provisions and the draft Guidance and has contributed to the Australian2parliamentary enquiry to stablish a modern slavery act in Australia. In 2016, Colleen wasnominated in her capacity as director of Ardea International (previously known as CLT
envirolaw) for an award at the Anti Slavery Awards ceremony for her contribution towards
raising awareness of modern slavery. She is a regular contributor to the legal and professionalpress and her publications are available at www.ardeainternational.com

Miho Okada, Director, Caux Round Table Japan
Miho joined Caux Round Table Japan in 2009, and has led in developing CRT’s global network, ,organising a platform which is consists of companies/CSO/academics in Japan, and creating
services and programmes for Japanese companies mainly to support companies to implement‘Business and Human Rights’. She holds a MSt from the Institute for Sustainability Leadershipin Cambridge University, and MA from Waseda University. She is currently Managing Directorof Caux Round Table Japan, Board Member at Bluenumber and Managing Director of TraceBlueJapan.

Enquiries
For any enquiries in English and Japanese, please contact Miho Okada at miho_okada@crtjapan.jp

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