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 [...]
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 [...]