CESNUR – Human Rights and Religious Freedom Experts Decry Government Persecution of Minority Religion in Japan Washington, DC, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Center for Studies on New Religions, Human Rights and Religious Freedom Experts Decry Government Persecution of Minority Religion in Japan CESNUR’s Bitter Winter Magazine Posts Booklet Explaining Why Japanese Government [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Unification Minister Kim Yung-ho met with the U.N. special rapporteur for North Korea’s human rights and vowed close cooperation to improve Pyongyang’s dismal rights records on Monday. Elizabeth Salmon has been visiting South Korea since last Monday for a nine-day trip to meet with government officials, North Korean defectors [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Civic groups on North Korea’s human rights said Wednesday they have sent an open letter to President Yoon Suk Yeol calling for discussing the issue of abductees and detainees in the North during his upcoming summit with the leaders of the United States and Japan at Camp David. The [...]
San José, Costa Rica, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A report released today by the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) at the 12th RightsCon summit in Costa Rica reveals that almost 25% of people who experience online harm feel they are targeted due to their gender identity. It says the most prevalent, frequent and severe experiences of online [...]
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, [...]