SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s national human rights agency on Tuesday advised the Justice Ministry to use languages that refugees can understand in documents stating their refugee recognition status amid criticism the current system may infringe on their rights. The National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK) said in a statement that [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A majority of South Koreans consider positively the possibility of improvement in North Korea’s human rights situation, a recent survey showed Thursday. The survey conducted on 1,000 adults late last year showed that 65 percent of the respondents were positive about a possible improvement, according to the Database Center [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Yuhan-Kimberly Ltd. has decided to allow its employees working at call centers to discontinue services if they are physically or sexually harassed by customers. In addition, a resting lounge will be created to allow call center employees and other emotional laborers use such facilities to deal with the difficulties [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – The National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRC) has criticized the creators of elementary school textbooks for subtle job discrimination. Some of the content contained in the textbooks for lower grade elementary school students includes discriminatory descriptions of certain laborers, including firefighters, according to the NHRC on Monday. The NHRC [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – A new survey has revealed that nearly nine in ten South Korean middle school and high school students have had their belongings confiscated at least once by school authorities, which a student rights group says is a clear violation of human rights. The shocking findings from a survey conducted by [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Police will refrain from using excessive physical force at street rallies, a ranking officer at the National Police Agency (NPA) said Friday, in line with President Moon Jae-in’s calls for better protection of human rights. Lee Dae-hyung, an NPA officer in charge of human rights protection, said at a [...]
SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea plans to set up a museum on North Korea’s human rights by 2019 to raise public awareness about Pyongyang’s serious human rights violations, government officials said Friday. The envisioned museum is expected to display documents and photos of North Korea’s human rights records and introduce testimonies of [...]
SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) – The National Human Rights Commission of Korea said Tuesday that South Korea’s military prisons were failing to protect the rights of inmates, with poor maintenance conditions and other unethical practices. According to the NHRC, the prison cells that its officials investigated had restrooms with no shades or screens to [...]
SEOUL, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Nearly one in four prisoners at North Korea’s labor camps die of disease while in confinement, a Seoul-based think tank said in a report released Tuesday. The report by the Asan Institute for Policy Studies said that the fatality rate at North Korea’s political prisons is estimated at close [...]
WASHINGTON, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) – The United States imposed sanctions on North Korean leader Kim Jong-un over human rights abuses on Wednesday in an unprecedented, highly symbolic measure underscoring Washington’s determination to ramp up pressure on Pyongyang. Ten other top officials as well as five state agencies, including the National Defense Commission, which has [...]