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Speaker: Charmine Koda

Director, United Nations Information Centre (UNIC), Tokyo

"Human Security and the UN activity"

Date: 1 November 2007

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Charmine Koda is a graduate of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She began her career in broadcasting as co-host of a weekly international news program “Overseas Weekly” on NHK TV, and later co-anchor of the national daily evening news program on Fuji TV network. She has also worked for many years as journalist and commentator on environmental issues. Ms. Koda has long been associated with a variety of non-governmental organizations in Japan, dealing primarily with issues of environment and education, and currently serves on the boards of several organizations. She also has been a member of several governmental committees, such as the Central Environmenta1 Council. She is now Director of the United Nations Information Centre in Tokyo. Major publication: “People Who Work With the Earth,” FM Tokyo publishing.

Roundtable Topic

There are many activities that have been conducted by the UN, with the support of the Government of Japan, in order to promote Human Security. These international initiatives are aimed at the protection of human beings from serious and wide-spread threats such as civil conflicts, poverty, environmental degradation and infectious diseases, and aim to empower people. The issue of climate change is one of the United Nations’ top priority issues in connection to Human Security. The UN aims to call more attention to the seriousness of global warming and its effect on human society and life on Earth, and also to remind us that the solution lies in our own hands.

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