ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION URGENT APPEALS PROGRAMME 10 July 2008-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------SOUTH KOREA: Three human rights defenders are arrested as instigators of illegal protest ISSUES: Human rights defenders; freedom of opinion and expression; misuse of power----------------------------------...
2008/07/10 19:07 2008/07/10 19:07
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon should take an active role in dealing with US beef crisis in South Korea: Ban should not shun away from human rights violations occurred during anti-US beef rallies. United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is scheduled to make his first official visit to Korea on July 3rd since he took office. Ban is loade...
2008/07/03 17:43 2008/07/03 17:43
Please write a letter to the President of South Korea to immediately stop the police crackdown and imprisonment of people engaged in protest against the Korea-US beef. Please see the attached sample letter. police brutality over the protestors in South Korea’s rallies against the import of US Beef There has been a series of police brutality over the prot...
2008/07/02 10:22 2008/07/02 10:22
Korean Police Needs to refrain from their irrational process of confiscation when executing search warrant in its probe into Anti-US beef protests Police today raided the office of the People’s Conference Against Mad Cow Disease located at the building of People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy. Since established in 1994, PSPD has been dedicate...
2008/06/30 11:07 2008/06/30 11:07
In the end, the government is about to enforce the announcement on the new conditions reflecting fraudulent results of additional negotiation, when all peoples' nationwide candlelight rally reaches 50 consecutive days to protect the safety of ourselves and family by recovering quarantine sovereignty and national health rights that the Lee administration t...
2008/06/25 17:41 2008/06/25 17:41
8th Session of the UN Human Rights Council 12 June 2008
(Geneva, Switzerland)

The representatives presented NGO joint oral statement of UPR(Universal Periodic Review) of the government of Republic of Korea, related to the issues of freedom of assembly, migrant worker, and irregular workers.
2008/06/21 20:01 2008/06/21 20:01
Burmese Military Regime Must Accept Humanitarian Aid The Korean Government Must Urge the Burmese Military Regime to Accept the Relief Aid from the International CommunityThe worst cyclone to date, the trail of ruins by Cyclone Nargis has left Burma destitute. It is estimated that at least 130,000 people have died or been injured and 2,000,000 cyclone...
2008/05/29 16:32 2008/05/29 16:32
UPR on South Korea: Korean Government Provided Unclear and Misguiding Answers DPRK and the U.S. Stand United against National Security Law Recommendations by Member States on Key Human Rights Issues in South Korea including the Abolition of Death Penalty and the Protection of Human Rights of Migrant Workers 1. The UN Human Rights Council held its int...
2008/05/08 15:01 2008/05/08 15:01
The Arroyo regime and the junta of the Philippines stop immediately the killings and violence against the people! It has been 2 years since the extra-judicial arrest of peasant activists of Cavite, Philippines, Mr Q. Samiento and his 4 colleagues on 28 April 2006. They are still under detention on fabricated charges all this while. Nevertheless, what has...
2008/04/29 14:09 2008/04/29 14:09
After completing my graduate study at SungKongHoe University on Master of Arts in Inter-Asia NGO Studies (MAINS) Program, I have the rare opportunity to do a month’s internship with People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy (PSPD) before going back home to Philippines.It may have been a short period of time to really do a meaningful internship...
2008/04/07 18:30 2008/04/07 18:30