Digital Justice Network

It is the government’s duty to protect its citizens; therefore, there is little justification for the government to prioritise administrative efficiency over the rights of the socially disadvantaged. As a short-term goal, relevant laws must be amended so that female victims of violence can minimise exposure of their personal information. Of course, in the long term, legislators should consider gender-specific needs prior to making all policies in order to prevent such trial and error.

We are concerned that, in the socio-political context, there is a high possibility for IT to be misused to carry out state surveillance and commit violations of the right to privacy. We welcome the UN General Assembly resolution and the report of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the right to privacy in the digital age, and we emphasize the urgent need for these recommendations to be implemented by the RoK.

– On 23rd of July, six Korean human rights activists file a lawsuit against Google Inc. and Google Korea requesting the disclosure of personal information provision records to Seoul Central District Court

Seven internet service and communications providers from around the world filed a legal complaint today, calling for an end to GCHQ’s attacking and exploitation of network infrastructure in order to unlawfully gain access to potentially millions of people’s private communications.

베스트 비트(Best Bits)는 인터넷 관련 국제 시민사회 네트워크입니다. 베스트 비트 역시  ‘인터넷 거버넌스의 미래에 관한 세계 멀티스테이크홀더 회의’에 의견을 제출하였으며, 진보넷도 이에 연명하였습니다. 

 베스트 비트(Best Bits)는 인터넷 관련 국제 시민사회 네트워크입니다. 베스트 비트 역시  ‘인터넷 거버넌스의 미래에 관한 세계 멀티스테이크홀더 회의’에 의견을 제출하였으며, 진보넷도 이에 연명하였습니다.  원문 : http://bestbits.net/netmundial-principles/  

We firmly believe that global Internet governance should be based on the mulltistakeholder model and protection of human rights, two principles that are considered to be critical in sustaining the past and future of an Internet for the global community.

Korean NGOs submitted Joint Statement on Internet Surveillance of US NSA for the 24th session of the UN Human Rights Council on August 22th, 2013.

 Global Information Society Watch 2012 : The internet and corruption Country Reporf of South Korea 

Joint statement:The authorities’ conducts to take DNA samples from those Yongsan displaced persons and SSangyong workers and to establish and use a database containing said samples are constituted the serious violation of the constitutionally protected human rights.  9th July, 2013South KoreaCatholic Human rights Committee,Jinbonet: Korean Progressive Network,

We urge the South Korean government and National Assembly to:

The protracted Novartis’ appeal from 2006 for a patent to Gleevec (Leukemia medicine), and against Indian Patent law has finally reached a conclusion. On Apr1, Indian Supreme court dismissed Novartis’ appeal.

The Korean NGOs’ Association for Freedom of Expression1 is sending a joint letter to you regarding
situation of human rights defenders in the Republic of Korea focusing on their enjoyment of freedom
of opinion and expression, freedom of peaceful assembly and of association. It is to share our grave
concerns and update Special Rapporteurs on the situation, as a follow-up to the report submitted by
Mr. Frank La Rue to the UN Human Rights Council in 2011.

 Global Information Society Watch 2011 : Internet rights and democratization

On the 23rd of August 2012, South Korean digital rights organisation Jinbonet won a long struggle. For the last five years, the APC member group fought an internet real name system regulation. The Constitutional Court ruled unanimously against this regulation, that is part of a larger law known as “the network act”, arguing that it is unconstitutional to require people to authenticate their identity in order to post or comment on websites. South Korea was the only country in the world to have such regulation.

US and EU are threatening lives of people living with disease now. The India-EU FTA is an agreement which risk patients’ health none the more than the KORUS FTA. Especially, the India-EU FTA endangers lives of people living with disease all over the world. We urge the Lee Myoung-bak government to abolish KORUS FTA immediately as well as the India government to stop the India-EU FTA negotiation. We also call for the India Supreme Court to dismiss Swiss pharmaceutical company, Novartis’ case toward India’s progressive patent law.

JINBONET requests UN Human Rights Council’s attention on the situation of human rights and ICT in South Korea. In regard to freedom of expression on the internet, we recommend that Human Rights Council demands South Korean government to implement the recommendations from Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression.

In the main section of the report, the Special Rapporteur focuses on the following issues of concern: defamation, freedom of opinion and expression on the Internet, freedom of opinion and expression before elections, freedom of assembly, restrictions on freedom of expression on the basis of national security, freedom of opinion and expression of public officials, independence of the media, and the National Human Rights Commission of Korea.

The enactment of the Data Protection Act has been a long-cherished wish of many human rights organizations since the controversy over the electronic ID card began in 1996. The main point in this issue is the establishment of an independent data protection supervisory authority named the Korea Data Protection Commission. The Data Protection Commission, which could be considered as independent, seems to have been created, despite an obstacle of the Ministry of Public Administration and Security to further its own interests.