IMADR Officers


Our team consists of officers and the board members from around the world with extensive experience and expertise.

Chairpersons

  • Nimalka Fernando

    Lawyer, IMADR Asia Committee
  • Shigeyuki Kumisaka

    Former President, Buraku Liberation League Central Executive Committee

Senior Director/ Secretary-General

  • Fujihiko Nishijima

    President, Buraku Liberation League Central Executive Committee

Directors

  • Romani Rose

    Romani Rose

    Chairperson, Central Council of German Sinti and Roma
  • Durga Sob

    Founder President, Feminist Dalit Organisation (FEDO)
  • Michael O. Sharpe

    Professor of Political Science and Professor of International Migration Studies at York College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
  • Helene Sackstein

    Child, Gender, Information and Press Freedom Specialist
  • Anastasia Crickley

    Former Member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), Maynooth University, Ireland
  • Beena Pallical

    General Secretary, National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR)
  • Takashi Akai

    Secretary-General, Buraku Liberation League Central Executive Committee
  • Nanako Inaba

    Professor, Sophia University
  • Masaru Ohkawa

    Masaru Ohkawa

    Executive Director, Ainu Association of Hokkaido
  • Takashi Kajiwara 

    President, Japan Teachers Union
  • Masahiko Tanigawa

    Masahiko Tanigawa

    Director, Buraku Liberation and Human Rights Research Institute
  • Zenko Fujimoto

    Chairperson, Joint Conference of Religious Sects on Dowa Issues
  • Masayuki Hattori

    Executive Director, Industrial Federation for Human Rights, Tokyo
  • Atsuko Miwa

    Director, Asia-Pacific Human Rights Information Center

Auditors

  • Tetsushi Fujimoto

    Finance President, Buraku Liberation League
  • Makoto Kubo

    Makoto Kubo

    Professor, Osaka Sangyo University

Advisory Panel

  • Yoko Hayashi

    Lawyer, former Member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
  • Penda Mbow

    Penda Mbow

    Professor, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar
  • Kenzo Tomonaga

    Honorary Director, Buraku Liberation and Human Rights Research Institute
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