Youngsters and Their Rights: PSPD’s Youth Club ‘WA’ is Getting into the “Campaign for Part-Timers’ Rights”. Part-time youth workers are speaking up for their rights. Young people who are doing Arbeit (part-time job, popularly called Alba) are speaking out against discrimination and unfair treatment. Go Alba! The youth...
2003/11/08 00:00 2003/11/08 00:00
Part-time youth workers are speaking up for their rights. Young people who are doing Arbeit (part-time job, popularly called Alba) are speaking out against discrimination and unfair treatment. Go Alba! The youth volunteer club of PSPD, 'Dynamic Youth WA' (WA) has chosen the issue ofyoung part-time workers and their problemsas a basis for action. T...
2002/11/20 00:00 2002/11/20 00:00
It is almost two years since the reform of medical system was launched, but the system does not seem to have been much improved. The Ministry of Health and Welfare recently released the news that it would weaken the current medical receipts exchange regulation. The Social Welfare Committee of the PSPD, along with other NGOs, asked the Ministry on M...
2002/03/15 00:00 2002/03/15 00:00
Twenty activists from labor unions and civic groups, including the PSPD, groups for advocating the rights of the unemployed, and the Center for the handicapped, initiated on Oct. 24 a joint campaign with citizens in Myung-dong, Seoul to make a secure social assistance policy and welfare infrastructure. Major labor unions and civic groups have suppo...
2001/11/07 00:00 2001/11/07 00:00
As the Human Genome Project has almost been completed, the Council for Democracy in Science & Technology (CDST), a action body of PSPD, petitioned Korean government to enact a law for personal genetic code protection on June 7, 2001 with concerns about the possibility of persons being discriminated against on the basis of genes. The CDST collected 1,870 s...
2001/07/21 00:00 2001/07/21 00:00