SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Human Rights Commission on Tuesday urged the justice ministry to take swift measures to relieve overcrowding in prison cells. The recommendation follows a petition by an inmate of an unidentified detention center, who complained his time at an overcrowded prison cell infringed upon his human rights. The [...]
SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Human Rights Commission on Wednesday recommended enacting legislation recognizing same-sex civil unions and other non-traditional family formats to help ensure the basic rights of sexual minorities. The recommendation followed a petition previously filed by 1,056 Korean nationals in homosexual relationships at home and abroad, claiming they are [...]
SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The education ministry did not accept a recommendation from the National Human Rights Commission that it address a potentially discriminatory regulation requiring higher qualifications for foreign teachers at private learning institutions, officials said Tuesday. The human rights watchdog has recommended the ministry amend the Private Teaching Institution Act’s enforcement [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The state human rights watchdog is calling on the cabinet to add categories about sexual minorities to government statistics and surveys that form the basis of making public policy. The the National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK) recently passed a policy recommendation to prevent hatred and discrimination against [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s human rights watchdog said on Friday that the Army’s forced discharge of a sergeant who underwent a sex reassignment surgery while serving in the military was an infringement of human rights by a public authority. The National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK) said its plenary meeting [...]