SOUTH KOREA – Implement recommendations on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights by UN!
15 December 2009 5:41 am
On 25 November, South Korea's 56 civic groups including FORUM-ASIA member People's
Solidarity for Participatory Democracy held a press conference in front of the Central Government
Complex to demand that the government take steps to follow the
recommendations made by the UN Committee on Economic, Social, and
Cultural Rights.
(Source: FORUM-ASIA member People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy, 30 November 2009)
On November 25, South Korea's 56 civic groups including People's
Solidarity for Participatory Democracy, Lawyers for a Democratic
Society, Gong-Gam (Korean Public Interest Lawyer's Group), and
Min-Ka-Hyup held a press conference in front of the Central Government
Complex to demand that the government take steps to follow the
recommendations made by the UN Committee on Economic, Social, and
Cultural Rights (UN ICESCR Committee).
On November 24, the UN ICESCR Committee
adopted concluding observations after reviewing the current state of
the South Korean government's actions to follow International Covenant
on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).
In yesterday's press conference participated many figures from
Korea's civil society, including Cho, Hee-Ju (Representative of Justice
for Yong-San), Lee Young (Secretary General of Solidarity for Migrant
Workers), Park Won-Suk (Co-Secretary General of PSPD), Kim Byung-Ju
(Director of International Solidarity of Lawyers for a Democratic
Society), Rah Il-Ha (Secretary General of Korean Public Workers'
Union), and Kim Hyun-Mi (Vice President of Metal Worker's Union).