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Topic: Human rights in South Korea

	Human rights in South Korea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		South Korea is a country of origin, transit, and destination for human trafficking.
		South Korea is one of the most ethnically homogeneous countries in the world, and it is very difficult for outsiders to be fully accepted.
		Human trafficking was outlawed and penalties for prostitution increased[26]; the 2004 Act on the Prevention of the Sex Trade and Protection of its Victims was passed, toughening penalties for traffickers, ending deportation of victims, and establishing a number of shelters for victims.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Human_rights_in_South_Korea (1790 words)

	Human rights - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Human rights refers to the concept of human beings as having universal rights, or status, regardless of legal jurisdiction or other localizing factors, such as ethnicity and nationality.
		The term "human rights" has begun to replace the phrase "natural rights" in popularity, because the rights are less and less frequently seen as requiring natural law for their existence.
		Human rights have historically arisen from the need to protect citizens from abuse by the state and this might suggest that all mankind has a duty to intervene and protect people wherever they are.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Human_rights (3466 words)

	Essential Background: Overview of human rights issues in Human Rights in South Korea (ROK: The Republic of Korea) ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Human Rights in South Korea (ROK: The Republic of Korea)
		South Korea accepted hundreds of thousands of migrant workers in the 1990s as so-called “industrial trainees.” Most were unskilled workers from Southeast Asia who came to the country for a few months to learn specific skills while earning the minimum wage.
		South Korea insists the new system is designed to help resolve the chronic abuse and mistreatment of undocumented workers by giving them legal status; labor activists say that police have used excessive force in arresting undocumented workers and have denied their rights to legal counsel while in detention.
	www.hrw.org /english/docs/2004/07/08/skorea9047.htm (853 words)

	Korea, Republic of
		The Republic of Korea (Korea) is a constitutional democracy governed by a president and a unicameral legislature.
		The Constitution provides citizens with the right to change their government peacefully, and citizens exercise this right in practice through periodic, free, and fair elections held on the basis of universal suffrage for all citizens 20 years of age or older.
		Members of the National Human Rights Commission were not permitted to be present at interrogations, but they were authorized to visit prisons and correctional institutions and to meet with persons who had been arrested and were in custody.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2004/41647.htm (8233 words)

	Human Rights Watch: Asia : South Korea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		While South Korea is now led by a former human rights activist, has a government sprinkled with civil libertarians, and has made the difficult transition to a functioning democracy, when it comes to dealing with North Korea, it is still weighed down by the past.
		South Korea was one of just ten governments to abstain on UN General Assembly Resolution 51/45, passed 156-0 on 10 December 1996, urging states to vigorously pursue an international agreement banning antipersonnel landmines.
		Human Rights Watch and the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation today challenged President Clinton's reluctance to join more than 100 other nations in signing a landmine ban treaty in December because of his stated belief that antipersonnel mines are essential to fighting a war in Korea.
	www.hrw.org /asia/southkorea.php (1127 words)

	Korea, Republic of
		There is a bail system, but human rights lawyers say that bail generally is not granted when detainees are charged with committing serious offenses, when they may attempt to flee or harm a previous victim, or when they have no fixed address.
		Human rights groups believe that many dissidents tried by past military governments during the 1970's and 1980's were sentenced to long prison terms on false charges of spying for North Korea.
		Some human rights groups argue that a considerable amount of illegal wiretapping, shadowing, and surveillance photography still occurs, and they assert that the lack of an independent body to investigate whether police have employed illegal wiretaps hinders the effectiveness of the Antiwiretap Law.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/eap/8336.htm (9840 words)

	Human Rights House Little respect for North Korean human rights in South Korea
		The anti-government movement in the 1980s in South Korea was dominated by socialists who espoused, some of whom looked to the Soviet Union as a model while others espoused the juche philosophy of Kim Il Sungâs North Korea.
		In Korea, they are known as the â386-ers.â Thatâs a reference to the fact that they are now in their 30s (although, in reality, many have already turned 40), entered university in the 1980s, and born in the 1960s.
		That leads to the sad conclusion that their championing of human rights, freedom, and democracy during the fight against South Koreaâs military rulers during the 1980s were not out of any genuine respect for such values, but instead simply a tactical tool for gaining political power.
	www.humanrightshouse.org /dllvis5.asp?id=2959 (765 words)

	Chapter 13, Section 5- Korea, South (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		The United Nations Human Rights Committee has termed the NSL "a major obstacle to the full realization of the rights enshrined in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights." According to Ministry of Justice figures, 583 persons were charged with violating the NSL through November 30.
		Human rights groups believe that many dissidents tried under past military governments during the 1970's and 1980's were sentenced to long prison terms on trumped-up charges of spying for North Korea.
		Some human rights groups argue that a considerable amount of illegal wiretapping still is taking place, and they assert that the lack of an independent body to investigate whether police have employed illegal wiretaps hinders the effectiveness of the Antiwiretapping Law.
	www.ibiblio.org /chinesehistory/contents/c13s05.html (6986 words)

	Asia Times - News and analysis from Korea; North and South
		Inaction on North Korea's human-rights situation, he argued, is as appalling as inaction in the face of the Holocaust, the killing fields in Cambodia, or the genocide in Rwanda.
		The United Nations Commission on Human Rights in Geneva recently passed a strong resolution of censure, citing North Korea's extensive and grave human-rights abuses and calling for investigation by a UN rapporteur.
		If passed, the North Korean Human Rights Act would express a "sense of Congress" that human-rights issues must be a "key concern" in US dealings with North Korea, and would require all economic assistance to North Korea to attach human-rights conditions, ie, no aid without concrete demonstrations that human rights are improving.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Korea/FE06Dg01.html (1909 words)

	South Korea - HUMAN RIGHTS
		Under Syngman Rhee, the South Korea continued the prewar pattern of using law and the police for political purposes--intimidating the judiciary, arresting journalists, and applying extralegal pressures against the teaching profession and members of the new National Assembly.
		This tension was evident in the affirmations of rights found in most of South Korea's postwar constitutions and especially in the government's need for increasingly stringent measures to control a restive judiciary under the yusin constitution.
		In addition to the growing disaffection of the legal profession in the 1970s and 1980s, South Korea's modernization had generated two social trends--rapid urbanization and dramatic increases in literacy and education levels--that were essential to industrialization, irreversible, and highly corrosive of traditional authoritarian practices.
	countrystudies.us /south-korea/72.htm (1100 words)

	Foreign Policy In Focus \| To Link or Not to Link: The Human Rights Question in North Korea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Given the human rights record of the Bush administration and its predilection for using the human rights records of other countries as a justification for regime change, it may well be impossible for the United States to devise a more nuanced and effective human rights policy toward North Korea.
		South Korea, Japan, Europe, and the United States are always going to look at North Korea differently, given their distinctive ethnic and geopolitical lenses of interpretation.
		Improving human rights in North Korea to China 's level, while not ideal, is at least a pragmatic goal, and North Korea is certainly more likely to listen to the experiences of Chinese leaders than to the advice of American or Japanese officials.
	www.fpif.org /fpiftxt/2998 (5828 words)

	Rights Activists Criticize Seoul's Stance on North Korean Human Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Human rights activists are sharply criticizing South Korea's decision to abstain from a United Nations vote on North Korean human rights.
		South Korea has abstained for the third year in a row from voting on a United Nations resolution criticizing North Korea on its human rights performance.
		South Korea's dominant Uri party, to which President Roh Moo-hyun belongs, embraces a policy of engagement and reconciliation with the North.
	www.voanews.com /english/2005-04-15-voa27.cfm (542 words)

	Privacy International - Country Reports H-N
		The nature of the right to privacy is such that it must ensure the dignity and freedom of the individual in a democratic society.
		South Korea is a member of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and has adopted the OECD Guidelines on the Protection of Privacy and Transborder Flows of Personal Data.
		The Latvian Defense Ministry responded by stating Latvia's "military counterintelligence service reserves the right to ensure the security of communications at the Ministry of Defense and structures of the national armed forces." [145] In April 1994, a bugging device was found on the switchboard of the "Dienas Bizness" newspaper.
	www.privacyinternational.org /survey/countries-h-n.html (13707 words)

	Human Rights Features (HRF) on Workers' rights in South Korea
		His incarceration is a gross violation of his rights to freedom of expression and association, enshrined in international human rights law as well as in the Korean Constitution.
		Further, confirming its recognition of the right to freedom of association as a fundamental human right, under the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work (1998), the Republic of Korea has agreed to respect workers’ right to freedom of association and the effective right to collective bargaining.
		South Korea is one of the signatories to the ILO Conventions but has yet to ratify ILO Convention 87 (on freedom of association and protection of the right to organise) and Convention 98 (on the right to organise and collective bargaining).
	www.hrdc.net /sahrdc/hrfquarterly/Jan_march_2002/skorea.htm (1522 words)

	Privacy and Human Rights 2003: South Korea
		South Korea has adopted a data protection regime similar to the United States and Japan, with one act covering the public sector and sectoral legislation for the private sector.
		Actions related to the right of privacy or defamation are rarely brought before Korean courts due to the cultural dislike against bringing private matters into such a public forum.
		Some human rights groups argue that a considerable amount of illegal wiretapping, shadowing, and surveillance photography still occurs, and they assert that the lack of an independent body to investigate whether police have employed illegal wiretaps hinders the effectiveness of the anti-wiretap law.
	www.privacyinternational.org /survey/phr2003/countries/southkorea.htm (2790 words)

	U.S. Arms Clients Profiles--South Korea
		Korea was annexed in 1910 by Japan, divided by the Soviet Union and the United States following World War Two, and then subjected to a brutal civil war.
		South Korea is the leading recipient of offset agreements with American defense manufacturers in the Pacific Rim, and among the top ten recipients worldwide.
		According to the U.S. Commerce Department, during 1993-96, South Korea entered in to twelve new offsets, half of which were direct investments in the Korean defense industry.
	www.fas.org /asmp/profiles/south_korea.htm (798 words)

	South Korea: working women demand their due. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		In the 1960s, when men were struggling for improved working conditions and higher wages, women were busy defending their basic human rights.
		South Korea’s population of 45 million includes 22 million in the work force, of whom nearly nine million are women.
		Its activities include investigating work situations where women are unfairly treated, questioning government policies which do not provide for the rights of working women, organizing forums and setting up action plans to promote awareness among regional groups and other associations working to ensure that women have a fair deal on the labour market.
	www.unesco.org /courier/1998_10/uk/dossier/txt32.htm (473 words)

	The Human Rights Situation in South Korea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		This paper aims to introduce a basic outline of human rights developments by briefly examining the history, legal structure, and the present situation of human rights in South Korea.
		The toll in human lives was staggering as up to 2.5 million people were killed or gone missing.
		Half of the industrial capacity in the south was destroyed while Pyongyang was reduced to ashes and rubble.
	www.ahrchk.net /charter/mainfile.php/east/11?print=yes (633 words)

	Speakers: N. Korea’s human rights record must be confronted - (BP)
		WASHINGTON (BP)--Human rights must be a central issue in negotiations with North Korea, democracy and religious freedom advocates said at a recent day-long conference.
		North Korea’s communist dictatorship under Kim Jong Il is guilty of widespread human rights violations, according to reports from the northeast Asian country.
		Human rights officials estimate 200,000 political prisoners are in North Korea’s gulag system and about 400,000 prisoners have died in those prisons in the last three decades.
	www.bpnews.net /bpnews.asp?ID=21263 (1184 words)

	NewsFromRussia.Com:South Korea summons conference to discuss human rights abuse in NKorea
		Human rights activists in South Korea said Monday they would hold an international conference on abuses in North Korea to raise awareness about a problem they say is being put aside amid reconciliation efforts with the communist regime.
		South Korea's government has largely remained silent on human rights problems in North Korea because it might anger the communist regime, thus complicating efforts to reconcile and resolve the standoff over the North's nuclear programs, according to the AP.
		North Korea has strongly protested the resolutions, claiming they are part of a U.S. plot to "stifle" the communist state.
	newsfromrussia.com /world/2005/10/24/65951_.html (425 words)

	Action from the Human Rights Action Network - Derechos Human Rights
		Suh Joon-shik are motivated by his work as a human rights defender and his critisism of the government's conduct and policy on human rights in South Korea - work conforming to the Universal Declaration on Human Rights and other international Conventions ratified by South Korea.
		The use of national security laws as a means to undermine human rights activists by the authorities has been the subject of considerable criticism by national regional and international human rights organisations.
		The Human Rights Action Network, a project of Derechos Human Rights, distributes appeals on behalf of victims of human rights violations.
	www.derechos.org /human-rights/actions/sos/kor2.html (470 words)

	South Korea: Amnesty International's Human Rights Concerns
		One of the most important human rights issue in South Korea continues to be the National Security Law, which is used arbitrarily to curtail the right to freedom of expression and association, providing long sentences or the dealth penalty for loosely defined ‘anti-state’ activities.
		South Korea is at a crucial moment to abolish the death penalty.
		Republic of Korea (South Korea): Open Letter to newly elected Members of the 17th National Assembly: a historic opportunity to consolidate human rights gains
	www.amnestyusa.org /countries/south_korea/index.do (311 words)

	Welcome to National Human Rights Commission of Korea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) plenary committee met on August 23 and issued a recommendation to the Speaker of the National Assembly and the Korean Minister of Justice to abolish the National Security Law (hereafter, NSL).
		Closely modeled on the “Security Law (Chi-an Yuji Beob)” implemented during Japanese colonization of Korea, the NSL was first promulgated and implemented in December 1948?less than four months after the founding of the Republic of Korea?as a 6-article piece of legislation called Law #10.
		By protecting the sphere of privacy and thought from government interference, the right to remain silent and freedom from self-incrimination stems from a respect for basic human dignity and worth.
	www.humanrights.go.kr /eng/nhrc/news/nhrc02_01_view.jsp?seqid=218 (1113 words)

	Harvard Law Bulletin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		By mid-July Koh had visited 25 countries and spoken to victims of human rights abuses from Beijing to Belgrade and from Colombia to Kosovo.
		While at Yale, where he began teaching in 1985, Koh directed the school’s Schell Center for International Human Rights, and in the early 1990s, he litigated human rights cases in the U.S. Supreme Court against the U.S. government for its policy of repatriating refugees from Haiti, Cuba, and elsewhere.
		The American-born son of Korean émigrés, Koh has had an eye trained on human rights abuses since he was six years old, when he watched his father, an HLS-trained senior UN diplomat, renounce his homeland for life as a political exile, rather than serve South Korea’s military dictatorship.
	www.law.harvard.edu /alumni/bulletin/backissues/fall99/article1e.html (449 words)

	Winning Foreign Workers A New Deal In Korea
		It wasn't long before she had focused her considerable energy on the issue of workers' rights, inspired in part by a summer she spent laboring in a toy factory.
		She's director of the Korean Migrant Workers' Human Rights Center and heads an alliance of 15 groups that lobbies for kinder, gentler immigration policies.
		Korea, once called the Hermit Kingdom, has never been very welcoming of outsiders, yet its thriving economy doesn't have enough workers, particularly manual laborers.
	www.businessweek.com /magazine/content/05_28/b3942404.htm (929 words)

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