The September 2019 (Volume 97) issue of the FOCUS Asia-Pacific newsletter has the following contents:

Kamagasaki: Renewing an Urban Poor Community

This presents the history of a community called Kamagasaki and discusses the participation of its poor members (workers and homeless people) in the city plan for community renewal.

- Jefferson R. Plantilla

Remembering the Past: Henomatsu Community

This discusses the experience of a community in ensuring that the memory of the past conditions of poverty and discrimination is not forgotten.

- Jefferson R. Plantilla & Kazuhiro Kawamoto

Single Female Workers in Osaka City: A Survey

This presents the summary of the results of a survey of single female workers in Osaka city that show their poor economic condition.

- Creo Osaka Central

The 8th Asia Pro Bono Conference

This reports the highlights of the 8th Asia Pro Bono Conference held in Kathmandu on 13-15 September 2019.

- Jefferson R. Plantilla

Emerging Issues of Business and Human Rights in Asia Pacific

This reports the proceedings of a workshop on business and human rights held in Kathmandu and attended by participants from different countries in Asia and beyond.

- Ravi Prakash Vyas

The whole file of the newsletter as well as individual files of the articles are now available online (https://www.hurights.or.jp/archives/focus/section1/2019/09/).