NGOs Stress Need for Government Action on Anniversary of Human Rights Act
South Korea’s Ministry of Unification hosted a forum recently to mark the first anniversary of the passing of the North Korean Human Rights Act. Participants from various human rights NGOs in Seoul spoke on the importance of full implementation of the act.
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Statue Wars Reveal Contested History of Japan’s ‘Comfort Women’
On December 30 2016, a South Korean civic group placed a bronze statue of a girl in front of the Japanese consulate in the southern port city of Busan. It commemorates as many as 200,000 enslaved military prostitutes, known as “comfort women”, from Korea and other parts of East Asia under Japanese domination during the second world war. In response, Japan recalled its ambassador.
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Defectors Use Satellite Imagery to Identify Mass Graves
Using satellite imagery and testimony from defectors, a human rights group in South Korea claims to have identified at least 12 potential mass graves in North Korea.
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The Reality of Life After Flight
A high profile North Korean diplomat last week joined 30,000 defectors who already call South Korea home, but for most of them adjustment and acceptance isn’t easy, Sarah Son writes.
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NGO Searching for Burial Sites to Investigate N.K. Human Rights Abuses: Report
A South Korean civic group is carrying out an indirect search to find the burial sites of victims of North Korea's gross human rights violations, a U.S.-based media report said Wednesday.
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Planning for Transitional Justice on the Korean Peninsula
In the wake of the UN Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in North Korea, South Korea faces challenges in preparing for transitional justice ahead of regime change in the North and possible inter-Korean unification.
South Korea’s Efforts in Solving North Korea’s Human Rights Issue
In June of this year, the United Nations opened a new Human Rights Office in Seoul to monitor the human rights situation in North Korea.
Furthermore, the third committee of the UN General Assembly passed last month a resolution on such issue in an overwhelming vote of 112 to 19.
These two landmark events this year alone have further underlined an undeniable truth: the human rights situation in North Korea is not only in the world's radar, but also a pressing global agenda.
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Post Transition as Important as the Path that Precedes it
While the road to a North Korea in transition is rife with stumbling blocks, as many if not more lie at the end, at which point the transitional justice process for the North will have only just begun.
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Lessons Learned from Germany for Transitional Justice in NK
North Korea’s apprehension of citizens without due process of law, its systematic political prison camps, and myriad other violations of human rights are gradually gaining more attention from the international community. And so, within this social milieu, a group of NGOs convened to shed light on how to bring about justice for North Korean human rights victims.
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Justice For NK Human Rights Elusive in Transitional Period
Accountability and justice for North Korea's brutal human rights violations present significant challenges in an era of transition, said experts at the recent seminar “Transitional Justice and North Korea” held at Seoul’s Korea University.
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