The 2025 ICHR is co-organized by Young Professionals in Foreign Policy (YPFP) Tokyo, East Asia Young Scholars Association (EAYSA), and the Graduate Program on Human Security (HSP) and Research Center for Sustainable Peace (RCSP), the University of Tokyo. The 2025 ICHR will be held in a hybrid format in Tokyo (Japan), March 20-22, 2025. 

The 2025 ICHR seeks to offer an international, intergeneration, and inclusive opportunity for young scholars to engage with human rights issues in the contemporary world. Acknowledging that current viewpoints on human rights are too often crowded out in discussions taking place in Western fora and conditioned to favor Western perspectives, we also seek to provide a forum that gives primacy to Japanese and Asian perspectives on global issues. We encourage submissions from scholars the world over, and are equally excited to welcome seasoned and new academics to discuss the most pressing human rights issues of our time.

The thematic structure of the 2025 International Conference on Human Rights: Youth in Asia is composed of the areas: (a) Contemporary Society, and (b) Democracy and Autocracy. Subthemes of each area are presented below:

A. Contemporary Society

• Technology and Human Rights
• Climate Change and Humanitarian Action
• Inequalities and Education
• Gender and Conflict
• Business and Human Rights

B. Democracy and Autocracy

• Democratic Upheavals and Autocratization
• Immigration and the Sustainability of Multiethnic Democracies
• Refugees
• Far-Right, Far-Left, and Polarization
• Censorship and the Right to Express

If you would like to submit your abstract, please visit: https://eaysa.org/2025ichr_submission/

For submission guidelines, please visit: https://eaysa.org/2025-international-conference-on-human-rights/

This conference is free and open to the public. Presenters and participants are not required to pay for registration fees.
 

For more information and if you have any inquiries, please visit: https://eaysa.org/2025-ichr-faq-eng/

Conference Manager

Helix Lo (helix.lo@ypfp.org)