On April 7, 2004, Police Headquarter announced the commencement of a project regarding the search for missing children involving the collection of DNA. Samples of children’s DNA who are presently under the care of protection facilities throughout the country and parents with missing children would be used to establish the DNA Database.
On January 4, 2004, the Youth Protection Committee announced a decision to remove homosexuality from the individual assessment list of harmful materials to youth. This list included materials describing bestiality, or other motivating socially unacceptable sexual activity including orgy, incest, homosexual love, masochism, sadism, and prostitution.
The Internet Real Name Law, which was passed at the plenary session of Parliament on March 9, 2004, requires Internet media and press websites to verify all names and identification numbers of authors who post messages on bulletin boards or chat rooms regarding elections.
The Resident Registration Act’s unconstitutional requirements of fingerprinting must be stopped.
The Intellectual Property Right is not merely a possession of copyright holders. Intellectual products would be meaningless if there were no users to enjoy them. It must be recognized that the fundamental aim of the Intellectual Property Right regime is to strengthen the consensus and exchange between the authors and users.
Struggle for Access to Glivec
in South Korea
Solidarity Needed Now!!!
What is Glivec?
US FDA approved Glivec, a drug for the
treatment of chronic myelogenic leukemia
(CML), in May 2001. In fact, Glivec is the one
and only drug that is effective for refractory
CML patients. But it is still ‘not a drug of
hope, but a drug of despair’ in South Korea.
Struggle for Access to Glivec
in South Korea
Solidarity Needed Now!!!
Yesterday more than thousand mainly teachers and their supporters, like students organized in Da-hamkke (All Together), took the streets of Seoul to protest against the government’s plans to implement NEIS
좀전에 보낸 시민사회 선언문과 별도로, 어제 발표된 정부간 선언문(안)의
보안(security) 분야에 대한 진보네트워크센터의 입장을 발표했습니다.
2003년 7월 18일
WSIS intersessional Paris 참가단
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Korea Progressive Network ‘Jinbonet’
Statement on paragraphs 34-37 of the new Draft Declaration of Principles
Document WSIS03/PICP/DT/4(Rev.2)-E
Civil Society Information Security and Privacy Working Group submitted a
Statement on the new Draft of Principles on 17. July. We appreciate the
endeavor of the Working Group a
아래와 같은 한국 시민사회의 WSIS에 대한 선언문을
WSIS intersessional 회의장에 배포했습니다.
2003년 7월 18일
WSIS intersessional Paris 참가단
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Statement of Korean Civil Society Network for WSIS
This statement has been prepared after diverse issues regarding
information society were reviewed and discussed at Korean civil society
workshop for the world summit on the information society (WSIS), and
contains the common consensus of Korean civil societies to information
socie
