SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Seven in 10 South Koreans support the Yoon Suk Yeol government’s efforts to shed light on North Korea’s dire human rights situation, a poll showed Thursday. In a survey on 1,000 adults conducted by the Peaceful Unification Advisory Council (PUAC) from March 24-26, 70.5 percent of the respondents said [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s unification ministry made public details of its report on North Korea’s human rights violations for the first time Thursday, highlighting widespread rights abuses by the North, such as public executions and torture. The 450-page report to be officially published Friday was written based on around 1,600 human [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has co-sponsored a U.N. human rights council draft resolution on North Korea’s gross rights violations for the first time in five years, the foreign ministry said Thursday. Seoul has participated as a co-sponsor in the draft resolution to be adopted at the 52nd regular session of the [...]
NEW YORK, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un should be held accountable for North Korea’s gross human rights violations as the leader of the country, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations has said after an informal session on the matter in the Security Council. “Kim Jong-un is the leader of [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea was once again labeled one of the worst countries in terms of freedom, a recent report by a U.S.-funded freedom watchdog showed Friday. In an annual Freedom House report titled “Freedom in the World 2023,” the North received a combined freedom score of 3 out of 100 [...]
FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla., June 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Source Intelligence, the industry-leading SaaS company for supply chain compliance and transparency, announces the release of its Human Rights Assessment (HRA) solution to prepare companies for the enforcement of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA). While the HRA solution was created in response to the UFLPA, its functionality is universal, [...]
SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Justice is planning to replace detention facilities used to incarcerate foreigners prior to deportation with alternative institutions that ensure the right of movement and freedom for foreigners. The ministry announced that it is seeking research projects for the establishment of ‘alternative forms of detention facilities for [...]
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 [...]