The Human Rights Awareness Promotion Committee Secretariat formulates the annual plan for human rights awareness training, the Chairman of the Human Rights Awareness Promotion Committee and headquarters committee members approve the plan, which is then carried out. In fiscal 2023, we held training for new employees covering human rights in general. We also held e-learning-based training for all employees in the domestic Group that focused on hiring people with disabilities, in an effort to deepen the understanding of government initiatives in this area, and MTPC’s* response to them.
Regional members systematically participated in external training courses organized by outside human rights-related organizations of which the Company is a member.

*An abbreviation for Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation

In anticipation of Human Rights Week in December each year, the Group encourages employees to submit diversity and human rights slogans. In this way, the Group is working to enhance human rights awareness.
In fiscal 2023, employees at 12 Group companies in North America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Japan submitted 661 slogans. The members of the Human Rights Awareness Promotion Committee selected Global Best Award slogans from among the Local Best Award slogans chosen by each Group company based on originality, ease of understanding, and educational effects under the theme of “Diversity and Human Rights.”
The award-wining slogan will be used at various MTPC Group-organized events.

Global Best Award-winning slogan: “Diversity is potential—the limitless future that people create”

Winner: Naoya Hiraiwa (Yoshitomi Plant, Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Factory)

Slogan Thoughts

I am delighted to have been chosen to receive the Global Best Award.
My slogan expressed my wish for a society where there are as many ways of thinking as there are people, and where all can coexist without being denied, as well as my belief that my ideas are an important element in diversity, and that we should accept the existence of ideas other than our own, rather than disparaging them. I hope for a world in which all people can live in peace with a positive perception of their own identity.

The Group conducts its business activities in accordance with the laws and regulations of each country and region, and the rules of each company. In this way, we are working to ensure that we do not engage in or participate in violations of human rights. In the unlikely event that a human rights violation is discovered, we work to quickly resolve the problem.
In fiscal 2024, we plan to conduct a self-assessment of human rights, targeting the Group (including our overseas offices). This assessment is intended to assess human rights risks at each company and to check whether the human rights risks identified in the previous self-assessment have been improved. We will collect responses from each company and compare and evaluate the results with reference to those obtained in the previous assessment, and check the status of our efforts.

*Human rights due diligence is the process of identifying, preventing, and mitigating adverse impacts related to human rights.

In the Group’s employment selection, we have set a basic policy to respect basic human rights and to conduct selection fairly based on experience, ability, aptitude, and interest, without regard to nationality, place of birth, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, family situation, beliefs or other factors that are unrelated to the applicant’s aptitude or ability.

In the selection process, we conduct fair employment screening based on the applicant’s aptitude and ability and do not ask inappropriate questions that may violate one’s human rights. Furthermore, one is not required to indicate gender on the job application form for new graduates, the internship application form for students, or the registration forms for career recruitment.