SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of mothers has filed a complaint over “spicy meals” offered at some kindergartens, alleging that serving the same meal regardless of age amounts to a violation of human rights. Political Mamas, a civic group largely made up of mothers, said on Tuesday that children (usually 5 to [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Human Rights Commission of Korea has on Tuesday ruled that distributing personal information of a COVID-19 patient during the quarantine process is a violation of the patient’s right of publicity, right to reputation and privacy. The individual in question, an employee at a local department store, was [...]
NEW YORK, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean defector-turned-lawmaker said Monday that South Korea should step up efforts to improve the human rights situation in North Korea, along with its proposal to declare the formal end to the Korean War. Rep. Tae Young-ho of the main opposition People Power Party made the remark during an [...]
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Twenty-one years ago, Tai Ji Men Qigong Academy presented a cultural performance on Capitol Hill and was praised as International Ambassadors of Peace and Goodwill. Twenty-one years later, they have returned to Washington, D.C. to seek justice and publicize their own experience of being religiously persecuted. Recently, over 30 representatives of Action Alliance [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The state human rights watchdog has ruled that ordering military service members to install map applications and turn on GPS functions at all times for quarantine purposes infringes upon their privacy and other fundamental rights. The National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK) announced Tuesday that requiring the use [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — No South Korean firms were found to be doing business with Chinese businesses accused of human rights violations in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region, a foreign ministry official said Thursday, citing an ongoing survey. The Seoul government launched due diligence after a group of U.N. special rapporteurs on human rights [...]
SEOUL, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) — About 38 percent of college student athletes have been required to follow strict curfews and other restrictions on their personal life, while about 32 percent have been forced by seniors to wash, clean and run errands, the state human rights watchdog said Tuesday. The National Human Rights Commission of [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean soldiers are failing to receive even a modicum of human rights protection, as advised by the international community, during incarceration. The Center for Military Human Rights Korea, a civic group, held a conference in Seoul on Tuesday to discuss the results of an investigation into human rights [...]
SEOUL, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of South Koreans believe that quarantine policies take priority over human rights, a poll showed Wednesday. A survey conducted by Prof. Yoo Myung-soon from the Seoul National University Graduate School of Public Health with the participation of 1,000 men and women across the country showed that [...]
London, UK, Nov. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — After two years in development, global risk data and forecasting company Verisk Maplecroft has released the world’s only Subnational Human Rights Dataset to enable multinational organizations and financial institutions to undertake risk assessments of their global operations, supply chains and investments in more granular detail than has been possible to [...]