September 16, 2021 The President of the Republic of Korea The National Assembly of the Republic of Korea Re: Proposed Amendments to the Press Arbitration Law Dear Members of the…
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Personal Information Dispute Mediation Committee(“PIDMC”) in South Korea has announced on July 8th, in an official statement that it made a resolution to commence the collective dispute mediation proceedings between…
진보통신연합 APC(Association for Progressive Communications)가 매년 발행하는 세계정보사회감시 보고서(Global Information Society Watch, GIS Watch) 2020이 발행되었습니다. 2020 GIS Watch 보고서는 “기술과 환경, 그리고 지속가능한 세계”(Technology, the environment and a sustainable…
Two organizations, Korean Progressive Network JINBONET and Institute for Digital Rights, jointly published a report titled <Covid-19 and the Right to Privacy : an Analysis of South Korean Experiences>. South…
In the face of COVID-19, countries are responding in various ways depending on their situation. Some, such as Taiwan, have responded quickly by blocking entry from other countries in the…
In the era of COVID-19, is S.Korea’s ‘new normal’ a digital surveillance state? Immediately withdraw the plan to introduce electronic entry register system! Korean Statement: https://act.jinbo.net/wp/42955/ On May 25,…
In response to COVID-19, digital rights should be respected – When publishing whereabouts of infected individuals, exposure of personal information should be restricted – Personal information collected for the purpose…
Introduction On 15 September 2017, the 6th South Korea Internet Governance Forum (KrIGF) was held at Sejong University.1 The KrIGF is hosted by the Korea Internet Governance Alliance (KIGA),2 a…
수 신 : 각 언론사 한미 FTA 취재 기자 발 신 : 한미 FTA 폐기를 촉구하는 한미 시민사회 공동 네트워크 담 당 : 남희섭 (010-3925-2797, hurips@gmail.com) Arthur Stamoulis (202-494-8826, media@citizenstrade.org)…
아시아태평양 지역 55개 시민사회단체, RCEP 협상국에 실질적인 의견교환 세션 요청 기업들에게는 협상 내용 알려주면서 시민사회는 물론 국회에도 비밀주의 고수하는 편향적인 FTA 협상은 수용할 수 없어 역내포괄적동반자협정(RCEP) 제20차 협상이 내일부터...
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http://www.giswatch.org/en/country-report/economic-social-and-cultural-rights-escrs/korea-republic Introduction The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR)1 deals with cultural rights in its Article 15, protecting the right of everyone “to take part in…
Through the struggle of internet rights and sexual rights groups for freedom of expression on the internet, and since the revision of the criteria of online content harmful to juveniles by deleting homosexuality from the criteria in 2004, there has not been direct censorship of online content related to homosexuality on the internet.
But this does not mean that sexual minorities are free to express themselves on the internet. One of the big barriers to the freedom of expression of sexual minorities is hate speech.
1. On 16 Oct. 2015 the 22nd Collegiate Court on civil cases in Seoul Central District Court made a ruling partly in favor of human rights activists and civil society who filed against Google Inc. and Google Korea demanding disclosure of information (whether it provided their data to a third party).
We, the undersigned, are international human rights and transparency groups based around the world. We are writing in opposition to Twitter’s recent decision to revoke the ability of the tool Politwoops and similar tools to utilize Twitter’s Application Programming Interface, or API. We believe Twitter’s decision holds grave consequences for free expression and transparency around the world.
The ‘Urgent Action Network against Cyber Surveillance’ (Urgent Action Network), which is composed of 19 groups including human rights organization, labor party and labor unions, held the press conference to submit the petition for legislation of so-called ‘cyber surveillance prohibition act’, actually a revised bill of ‘Protection of Communications Secrets Act’(PCSA), in the national assembly on April 20, 2015. The petition, in which 2,910 people have signed, will be introduced and proposed in the national assembly.
The ‘Urgent Action Network against Cyber Surveillance’, which is composed of 19 groups including human rights organization, labor party and labor unions, held the ‘joint assembly of cyber surveillance victims :prologue for counterattack’ in the Korean Buddhism history and culture memorial hall on March 1, 2015. , and declared ‘the Declaration of Independence from Cyber Surveillance State’.
This research on NN in S.Korea was submitted to global NN coalition.
ICTs and Human Rights January 2013,National Human Rights Commission of Korea
* 원문 : http://bestbits.net/itu-plenipot-notes/ Executive Summary
Considering that the purpose of the constitution and international human rights law is to protect private life, personal information, and the privacy and freedom of communication from any governmental surveillance, the present legal system in South Korea, such as PCSA and the Data Protection Act, means that the government is infringing on these human rights.
