Five new Commissioners join the ICJ
The ICJ is delighted to announce five new Commissioners: Professor Kyong-Wahn Ahn (Republic of Korea), Justice Adolfo Azcuna (Philippines), Professor Miguel Carbonell (Mexico), Justice Yvonne Mokgoro (South Africa) and Justice Ajit Parkash Shah (India).
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, A/HRC/25/55/Add.1, 23 December 2013: Republic of Korea
IV. Situation of human rights defenders G. Defenders working for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people 96. Those working for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people face discrimination, stigmatization and undue restrictions to...
ICJ submission to the Universal Periodic Review of The Republic of Korea
Under the second cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) mechanism, the UN Human Rights Council Working Group on the UPR will be undertaking a review of the Republic of Korea during its 14th session.
In a submission to the Working Group, the ICJ has focused on the discrete issues of the implementation by South Korea of its obligations under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and its party status to international human rights instruments and its cooperation with the UN treaty bodies and the Council’s Special Procedures.
Korea-ICJ submission UPR-non-judicial submission-2012 (full text in English, PDF)
Korea-Comparison second cycle-advocacy-2012 (full text in English, PDF)
Concluding Observations, CRC/C/KOR/CO/3-4, 2 February 2012: Republic of Korea
Non-discrimination 28. The Committee regrets that the State party’s draft Anti-discrimination Act was discarded without consideration at the National Assembly in December 2007 and that the legislative definition of discrimination does not contain an express...Recent News
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