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Decision TC1 05038 – The proper interpretation of the ‘generalized risk’ exception to protection found at subparagraph 97(1)(b)(ii) of the Act, in claims for protection involving allegations of gang-targeting or other acts of criminality.
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Decision MB8-00025 – This Jurisprudential Guide addresses, in applying Article 1E of the Refugee Convention, whether members should consider allegations of risk in a country of residence if they conclude that a refugee claimant has the rights and obligations which are attached to the possession of nationality in that country.
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Decision TB7-19851 – Nigeria – This Jurisprudential Guide addresses internal flight alternatives in major cities in south and central Nigeria for claimants fleeing non-state actors.
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Decision TB7-01837 – Pakistan – Whether the treatment experienced by Ahmadis in Pakistan amounts to persecution, whether state protection is available and whether there is a viable internal flight alternative.
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Decision MB6-01059/60 – India – Availability of an internal flight alternative in India for claimants from Punjab.
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Decision TB6-11632 – China – Analysis of the efficacy of the Chinese national computer network known as the Golden Shield Project and its impact on whether a person wanted by the authorities can exit China via an airport using a genuine passport.
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KOREA, REPUBLIC OF (SOUTH KOREA)
List of Documents
1.
General Information and Maps
Source:
United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
Accessed Date:
13 February 2023
Title:
Common core document forming part of the reports of States parties: Republic of Korea
Source:
Republic of Korea
Date of Document:
20 April 2022
Accessed Date:
8 February 2023
Title:
Korea, South. The World Factbook.
Source:
United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
Date of Document:
17 January 2025
Accessed Date:
21 January 2025
Title:
South Korea Report. Sustainable Governance Indicators 2022.
Author:
Nancy Kim; Hannes Mosler
Accessed Date:
8 February 2023
Title:
South Korea. Social Security Programs Throughout the World: Asia and the Pacific, 2018.
Source:
United States. Social Security Administration.
Date of Document:
March 2019
Accessed Date:
5 December 2019
Title:
South Korea. BTI 2024 Country Report.
Date of Document:
March 2024
Accessed Date:
7 January 2025
Title:
Présentation de la République de Corée
Source:
France. Ministère des Affaires étrangères et du Développement international.
Date of Document:
20 June 2024
Accessed Date:
7 January 2025
Title:
South Korea. Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2023.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
22 April 2024
Accessed Date:
15 May 2024
Title:
South Korea. World Report 2025: Events of 2024.
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
January 2025
Accessed Date:
23 January 2025
Title:
South Korea. Freedom in the World 2024.
Accessed Date:
7 January 2025
Title:
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence, Fabián Salvioli, on his visit to the Republic of Korea
Source:
United Nations. General Assembly.
Date of Document:
6 July 2023
Accessed Date:
5 February 2024
Title:
National report submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolutions 5/1 and 16/21: Republic of Korea
Code:
A/HRC/WG.6/42/KOR/1
Source:
Republic of Korea
Date of Document:
15 November 2022
Accessed Date:
23 February 2023
Title:
Summary of stakeholders' submissions on the Republic of Korea
Code:
A/HRC/WG.6/42/KOR/3
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of Document:
4 November 2022
Accessed Date:
23 February 2023
Title:
Fifth periodic report submitted by the Republic of Korea under article 40 of the Covenant pursuant to the optional reporting procedure, due in 2020
Source:
Republic of Korea
Date of Document:
24 August 2021
Accessed Date:
7 January 2022
Title:
South Korea. The State of the World's Human Rights: April 2024.
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
23 April 2024
Accessed Date:
7 January 2025
Title:
Republic of Korea: Compilation of information
Code:
A/HRC/WG.6/42/KOR/2
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of Document:
16 November 2022
Accessed Date:
23 February 2023
Title:
Concluding observations on the combined second and third periodic reports of the Republic of Korea
Source:
United Nations. Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Date of Document:
6 October 2022
Accessed Date:
8 February 2023
Title:
South Korea: Submission to the UN Human Rights Committee; 139th session, 9 October – 3 November 2023
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
12 September 2023
Accessed Date:
5 February 2024
Title:
Concluding observations on the fifth periodic report of the Republic of Korea
Source:
United Nations. Human Rights Committee.
Date of Document:
24 November 2023
Accessed Date:
12 February 2024
Title:
South Korea: Press freedom under attack, doctors strike targeted as UN committee calls for reforms
Date of Document:
28 March 2024
Accessed Date:
7 January 2025
3.
Identification Documents and Citizenship
Title:
Nationality Act (amended 2022)
Source:
Republic of Korea
Accessed Date:
23 January 2025
Title:
Act on Registration of Family Relations (amended 2023)
Source:
Republic of Korea
Accessed Date:
23 January 2025
Title:
Republic of Korea and Democratic People's Republic of Korea: Requirements and procedures for citizens of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) to obtain citizenship in the Republic of Korea (South Korea), including whether there ar...
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
3 February 2023
Accessed Date:
27 February 2023
Title:
South Korea. U.S. Visa: Reciprocity and Civil Documents by Country.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Accessed Date:
21 January 2025
Title:
Supporting resettlement of North Korean defectors. 2024 Unification White Paper.
Source:
Republic of Korea. Ministry of Unification.
Accessed Date:
7 January 2025
Title:
Constitution of the Republic of Korea (amended 1987)
Source:
Republic of Korea
Accessed Date:
22 January 2020
Title:
North Korean Defectors Protection and Settlement Support Act (amended 2023)
Source:
Republic of Korea
Accessed Date:
7 January 2025
Title:
South Korea: Amendments to Take Effect Addressing Constitutionality of Family Relations Registration Act
Source:
United States. Law Library of Congress. Global Legal Research Center.
Date of Document:
2 July 2024
Accessed Date:
7 January 2025
4.
Political Activities and Organizations
Title:
Republic of Korea. Election for Kukhoe (South Korean National Assembly) of 10 April 2024.
Source:
International Foundation for Electoral Systems. Election Guide.
Accessed Date:
7 January 2025
Title:
Republic of Korea. Election for Presidency of 9 March 2022.
Source:
International Foundation for Electoral Systems. Election Guide.
Accessed Date:
15 February 2024
Title:
About parliament; Election results. Republic of Korea: National Assembly.
Source:
Inter-Parliamentary Union. Parline.
Accessed Date:
7 January 2025
Title:
Party politics in South Korea after electoral “Judgment Day”
Date of Document:
5 July 2024
Accessed Date:
7 January 2025
5.
Gender, Domestic Violence and Children
Title:
South Korea Still Blocking Abortion
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
11 June 2024
Author:
Susanné Seong-eun Bergsten
Accessed Date:
7 January 2025
Title:
Domestic violence, including legislation, recourse, state protection, and support services available to victims (2013-April 2015)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
10 April 2015
Accessed Date:
28 April 2015
Title:
Act on Special Cases Concerning the Punishment of Crimes of Domestic Violence (amended 2022)
Source:
Republic of Korea
Accessed Date:
23 January 2025
Title:
Act on the Prevention of Domestic Violence and Protection of Victims (amended 2020)
Source:
Republic of Korea
Accessed Date:
27 February 2023
Title:
Ninth periodic report submitted by the Republic of Korea under article 18 of the Convention, due in 2022
Source:
Republic of Korea
Date of Document:
10 August 2022
Accessed Date:
5 February 2024
Title:
Domestic Violence in Korea: Focusing on Spousal Violence and Child Abuse
Source:
Korean Women's Development Institute
Author:
Inseon Lee et al.
Accessed Date:
5 April 2019
Title:
Concluding observations on the ninth periodic report of the
Republic of Korea
Source:
United Nations. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women.
Date of Document:
6 June 2024
Accessed Date:
7 January 2025
Title:
Written Response to the CEDAW Committee by the Republic of Korea
Source:
Republic of Korea
Date of Document:
15 May 2024
Accessed Date:
7 January 2025
Title:
Concluding observations on the combined fifth and sixth periodic reports of the Republic of Korea
Source:
United Nations. Committee on the Rights of the Child.
Date of Document:
24 October 2019
Accessed Date:
5 January 2021
Title:
Republic of Korea: Submission to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women: 86th Pre-Sessional Working Group, 27 February – 3 March 2023, List of Issues
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
29 January 2023
Accessed Date:
24 February 2023
Title:
The Fault Lines in Korea's Domestic Violence Laws
Source:
University of Melbourne
Date of Document:
22 May 2024
Author:
Sungshin Bae; Hyein Ellen Cho
Accessed Date:
7 January 2025
Title:
South Korea's Digital Sex Crime Deepfake Crisis
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
29 August 2024
Accessed Date:
7 January 2025
Title:
“I Thought of Myself as Defective”: Neglecting the Rights of LGBT Youth in South Korean Schools
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
14 September 2021
Accessed Date:
7 January 2022
Title:
Treatment of transgender people by society and authorities, including requirements and procedures to change one's gender on identity documents; requirements and procedures for exemption from obligatory military service for a male who is in the...
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
24 March 2016
Accessed Date:
28 April 2016
Title:
Serving in Silence: LGBTI People in South Korea's Military
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
11 July 2019
Accessed Date:
5 December 2019
Title:
South Korean Court Upholds Military 'Sodomy' Law
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
30 October 2023
Accessed Date:
5 February 2024
Title:
Corée du Sud (République de Corée) : Les minorités sexuelles et de genre
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
6 December 2019
Accessed Date:
5 January 2021
Title:
Republic of Korea (South Korea). Trans Legal Mapping Report 2019: Recognition before the law.
Source:
International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association
Date of Document:
September 2020
Author:
Zhan Chiam et al.
Accessed Date:
18 January 2021
Title:
South Korea: Supreme Court extends state health benefits to same-sex partners
Source:
ILGA Asia-Asian Region of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association
Date of Document:
26 July 2024
Accessed Date:
23 January 2025
7.
Criminality and Corruption
Title:
OSAC Country Security Report. South Korea.
Source:
United States. Overseas Security Advisory Council.
Date of Document:
11 October 2023
Accessed Date:
5 February 2024
Title:
South Korea: Tier 1. Trafficking in Persons Report 2023.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
24 June 2024
Accessed Date:
7 January 2025
Title:
Republic of Korea. Global Organized Crime Index 2023.
Source:
Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime
Accessed Date:
7 January 2025
Title:
Military Service Act (amended 2024)
Source:
Republic of Korea
Accessed Date:
13 January 2025
Title:
République de Corée (Corée du Sud) : Situation des objecteurs de conscience
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
8 February 2019
Accessed Date:
5 January 2021
Title:
Military Criminal Act (amended 2021)
Source:
Republic of Korea
Accessed Date:
5 February 2024
Title:
South Korea: Drop charges against first conscientious objector to refuse alternative service
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
22 August 2022
Accessed Date:
13 February 2023
Title:
NGO Submission for the 6th Consideration of the Republic of Korea
Source:
Center for Military Human Rights Korea; Military Sexual Abuse Victim Support Center
Date of Document:
10 June 2024
Accessed Date:
13 January 2025
9.
Judiciary, Legal and Penal Systems
Title:
Concluding observations on the sixth periodic report of the Republic of Korea
Source:
United Nations. Committee against Torture.
Date of Document:
16 August 2024
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Written Responses of the Republic of Korea for the Dialogue with the Committee against Torture
Source:
Republic of Korea
Date of Document:
14 July 2024
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Country Report. Immigration Detention in the Republic of Korea: Penalising People in Need of Protection.
Source:
Global Detention Project
Date of Document:
February 2020
Accessed Date:
7 January 2022
Title:
Sixth periodic report submitted by the Republic of Korea under article 19 of the Convention pursuant to the simplified reporting procedure, due in 2021
Source:
Republic of Korea
Date of Document:
21 March 2022
Accessed Date:
13 February 2023
Title:
South Korean Law Research on the Internet
Date of Document:
August 2021
Accessed Date:
7 January 2022
Title:
The Republic of Korea's Compliance with the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
Source:
Advocates for Human Rights et al.
Date of Document:
10 June 2024
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
10.
Police and Security Forces
Title:
South Korea. The Law on Police Use of Force Worldwide.
Source:
University of Pretoria. Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa.
Accessed Date:
13 February 2023
Title:
South Korea. Freedom on the Net 2024.
Editor:
Amelia Larson et al.
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
South Korea. Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2024.
Source:
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. University of Oxford.
Date of Document:
17 June 2024
Author:
Hyunwoo Lee; Youngheum Park
Editor:
David Levy; Giles Wilson
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
South Korea. International Religious Freedom Report for 2023.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
26 June 2024
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
13.
Nationality, Ethnicity and Race
Title:
Concluding observations on the combined seventeenth to nineteenth periodic reports of the Republic of Korea.
Code:
CERD/C/KOR/CO/17-19
Source:
United Nations. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
Date of Document:
10 January 2019
Accessed Date:
5 December 2019
Title:
Information received from the Republic of Korea on follow-up to the concluding observations on its combined seventeenth to nineteenth periodic reports
Code:
CERD/C/KOR/FCO/17-19
Source:
Republic of Korea
Date of Document:
7 October 2020
Accessed Date:
5 January 2021
14.
Exit/Entry and Freedom of Movement
Title:
South Korea Deports Two From North to Likely Abuse
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
12 November 2019
Accessed Date:
13 February 2023
15.
Labour, Employment and Unions - (No items in this section)
16.
Other - (No items in this section)
The following changes have been made to the previous package dated 31 May 2024:
Title:
Korea, South. The World Factbook.
Source:
United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
Date of Document:
13 February 2024
URL:
https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/korea-south/
Accessed Date:
15 February 2024
Title:
South Korea. BTI 2022 Country Report.
Date of Document:
February 2022
URL:
https://bti-project.org/en/reports/country-report/KOR
Accessed Date:
8 February 2023
Title:
Présentation de la République de Corée
Source:
France. Ministère des Affaires étrangères et du Développement international.
Date of Document:
19 September 2023
URL:
https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/dossiers-pays/coree-du-sud/presentation-de-la-republique-de-coree/
Accessed Date:
5 February 2024
Title:
South Korea. World Report 2024: Events of 2023.
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
January 2024
URL:
https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2024/country-chapters/south-korea
Accessed Date:
12 February 2024
Title:
South Korea. Freedom in the World 2023.
URL:
https://freedomhouse.org/country/south-korea/freedom-world/2023
Accessed Date:
5 February 2024
Title:
South Korea. Amnesty International Report 2022/23: The State of the World's Human Rights.
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
27 March 2023
URL:
https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/POL1056702023ENGLISH.pdf
Accessed Date:
5 February 2024
Title:
South Korea. U.S. Visa: Reciprocity and Civil Documents by Country.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
URL:
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/Visa-Reciprocity-and-Civil-Documents-by-Country/SouthKorea.html
Accessed Date:
15 February 2024
Title:
Strengthening Support for North Korean Defectors' Settlement. 2023 Unification White Paper.
Source:
Republic of Korea. Ministry of Unification.
URL:
https://www.uniedu.go.kr/contents/page/image/en_white_paper/white_paper_2023.zip
Accessed Date:
5 February 2024
Title:
North Korean Defectors Protection and Settlement Support Act (amended 2021)
Source:
Republic of Korea
URL:
https://elaw.klri.re.kr/eng_service/lawView.do?hseq=57073&lang=ENG
Accessed Date:
27 February 2023
Title:
Republic of Korea. Election for Kukhoe (South Korean National Assembly) of 15 April 2020.
Source:
International Foundation for Electoral Systems. Election Guide.
URL:
https://www.electionguide.org/elections/id/3277/
Accessed Date:
18 January 2021
Title:
South Korea: Tier 2. Trafficking in Persons Report 2023.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
June 2023
URL:
https://www.state.gov/reports/2023-trafficking-in-persons-report/south-korea/
Accessed Date:
5 February 2024
Title:
Military Service Act (amended 2023)
Source:
Republic of Korea
URL:
https://elaw.klri.re.kr/eng_service/lawView.do?hseq=64128&lang=ENG
Accessed Date:
5 February 2024
Title:
South Korea. Freedom on the Net 2023.
Editor:
Adrian Shahbaz et al.
URL:
https://freedomhouse.org/country/south-korea/freedom-net/2023
Accessed Date:
5 February 2024
Title:
South Korea. International Religious Freedom Report for 2022.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
15 May 2023
URL:
https://www.state.gov/reports/2022-report-on-international-religious-freedom/republic-of-korea/
Accessed Date:
5 February 2024
Title:
Corée du Sud. L'Encyclopédie en ligne.
URL:
http://www.larousse.fr/encyclopedie/cartes/Cor%C3%A9e_du_Sud/1306046
Accessed Date:
23 November 2012
Title:
Corée de Sud. L'aménagement linguistique dans le monde.
Source:
L'aménagement linguistique dans le monde
Date of Document:
22 December 2023
URL:
http://www.axl.cefan.ulaval.ca/asie/coree-sud.htm
Accessed Date:
5 February 2024
Title:
Nationality Act (amended 2022)
Source:
Republic of Korea
URL:
https://elaw.klri.re.kr/eng_service/lawView.do?hseq=61297&lang=ENG
Accessed Date:
5 February 2024
Title:
Act on Registration of Family Relations (amended 2023)
Source:
Republic of Korea
URL:
https://elaw.klri.re.kr/eng_service/lawView.do?hseq=63307&lang=ENG
Accessed Date:
5 February 2024
Title:
Mission Failed: Policing Assemblies in South Korea
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
21 September 2017
URL:
https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/ASA2571192017ENGLISH.PDF
Accessed Date:
6 April 2018
Title:
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association on his mission to the Republic of Korea
Source:
United Nations. Human Rights Council.
Date of Document:
17 November 2016
URL:
http://undocs.org/en/A/HRC/32/36/Add.2
Accessed Date:
15 February 2017
Title:
South Korea's Constitutional Right to Abortion
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
9 June 2022
URL:
https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/06/09/south-koreas-constitutional-right-abortion
Accessed Date:
13 February 2023
Title:
Act on Special Cases Concerning the Punishment of Crimes of Domestic Violence (amended 2022)
Source:
Republic of Korea
URL:
https://elaw.klri.re.kr/eng_service/lawView.do?hseq=61675&lang=ENG
Accessed Date:
5 February 2024
Title:
Concluding observations on the eighth periodic report of the Republic of Korea
Source:
United Nations. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women.
Date of Document:
14 March 2018
URL:
https://www.undocs.org/en/CEDAW/C/KOR/CO/8
Accessed Date:
5 December 2019
Title:
Information received from the Republic of Korea on follow-up to the concluding observations on its eighth periodic report
Source:
Republic of Korea
Date of Document:
31 March 2020
URL:
https://www.undocs.org/en/CEDAW/C/KOR/FCO/8
Accessed Date:
5 January 2021
Title:
Concluding observations on the combined third to fifth periodic reports of the Republic of Korea
Source:
United Nations. Committee against Torture.
Date of Document:
30 May 2017
URL:
http://www.undocs.org/en/CAT/C/KOR/CO/3-5
Accessed Date:
6 April 2018
Title:
Concluding observations on the combined third to fifth periodic reports of the Republic of Korea. Addendum: Information received from the Republic of Korea on follow-up to the concluding observations.
Code:
CAT/C/KOR/CO/3-5/Add.1
Source:
Republic of Korea
Date of Document:
14 March 2019
URL:
http://www.undocs.org/en/CAT/C/KOR/CO/3-5/Add.1
Accessed Date:
5 December 2019
Title:
Common core document forming part of the reports of States parties: Republic of Korea
Source:
Republic of Korea
Date of Document:
20 April 2022
URL:
https://www.undocs.org/en/HRI/CORE/KOR/2022
Accessed Date:
8 February 2023
Title:
South Korea Report. Sustainable Governance Indicators 2022.
Author:
Nancy Kim; Hannes Mosler
URL:
https://www.sgi-network.org/docs/2022/country/SGI2022_South_Korea.pdf
Accessed Date:
8 February 2023
Title:
South Korea: Press freedom under attack, doctors strike targeted as UN committee calls for reforms
Date of Document:
28 March 2024
URL:
https://monitor.civicus.org/explore/south-korea-press-freedom-under-attack-doctors-strike-targeted-as-un-committee-calls-for-reforms/
Accessed Date:
7 January 2025
Title:
Nationality Act (amended 2022)
Source:
Republic of Korea
URL:
https://elaw.klri.re.kr/eng_service/lawView.do?hseq=61297&lang=ENG
Accessed Date:
23 January 2025
Title:
Act on Registration of Family Relations (amended 2023)
Source:
Republic of Korea
URL:
https://elaw.klri.re.kr/eng_service/lawView.do?hseq=63307&lang=ENG
Accessed Date:
23 January 2025
Title:
South Korea: Amendments to Take Effect Addressing Constitutionality of Family Relations Registration Act
Source:
United States. Law Library of Congress. Global Legal Research Center.
Date of Document:
2 July 2024
URL:
https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/2024-07-01/south-korea-amendments-to-take-effect-addressing-constitutionality-of-family-relations-registration-act/
Accessed Date:
7 January 2025
Title:
About parliament; Election results. Republic of Korea: National Assembly.
Source:
Inter-Parliamentary Union. Parline.
URL:
https://data.ipu.org/parliament/KR/KR-LC01/
Accessed Date:
7 January 2025
Title:
Party politics in South Korea after electoral “Judgment Day”
Date of Document:
5 July 2024
URL:
https://asia.fes.de/news/party-politics-in-south-korea.html
Accessed Date:
7 January 2025
Title:
South Korea Still Blocking Abortion
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
11 June 2024
Author:
Susanné Seong-eun Bergsten
URL:
https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/06/11/south-korea-still-blocking-abortion
Accessed Date:
7 January 2025
Title:
Act on Special Cases Concerning the Punishment of Crimes of Domestic Violence (amended 2022)
Source:
Republic of Korea
URL:
https://elaw.klri.re.kr/eng_service/lawView.do?hseq=61675&lang=ENG
Accessed Date:
23 January 2025
Title:
Concluding observations on the ninth periodic report of the
Republic of Korea
Source:
United Nations. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women.
Date of Document:
6 June 2024
URL:
https://www.undocs.org/en/CEDAW/C/KOR/CO/9
Accessed Date:
7 January 2025
Title:
Written Response to the CEDAW Committee by the Republic of Korea
Source:
Republic of Korea
Date of Document:
15 May 2024
URL:
https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=INT%2FCEDAW%2FAIS%2FKOR%2F58432&Lang=en
Accessed Date:
7 January 2025
Title:
The Fault Lines in Korea's Domestic Violence Laws
Source:
University of Melbourne
Date of Document:
22 May 2024
Author:
Sungshin Bae; Hyein Ellen Cho
URL:
https://asialink.unimelb.edu.au/diplomacy/article/fault-lines-korea-domestic-violence-laws/
Accessed Date:
7 January 2025
Title:
South Korea's Digital Sex Crime Deepfake Crisis
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
29 August 2024
URL:
https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/08/29/south-koreas-digital-sex-crime-deepfake-crisis
Accessed Date:
7 January 2025
Title:
South Korea: Supreme Court extends state health benefits to same-sex partners
Source:
ILGA Asia-Asian Region of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association
Date of Document:
26 July 2024
URL:
https://www.ilgaasia.org/news/2024/7/26/south-korea-supreme-court-extends-state-health-benefits-to-same-sex-partners
Accessed Date:
23 January 2025
Title:
Republic of Korea. Global Organized Crime Index 2023.
Source:
Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime
URL:
https://ocindex.net/2023/country/korea_rep
Accessed Date:
7 January 2025
Title:
NGO Submission for the 6th Consideration of the Republic of Korea
Source:
Center for Military Human Rights Korea; Military Sexual Abuse Victim Support Center
Date of Document:
10 June 2024
URL:
https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=INT%2FCAT%2FCSS%2FKOR%2F58722&Lang=en
Accessed Date:
13 January 2025
Title:
Concluding observations on the sixth periodic report of the Republic of Korea
Source:
United Nations. Committee against Torture.
Date of Document:
16 August 2024
URL:
https://www.undocs.org/en/CAT/C/KOR/CO/6
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Written Responses of the Republic of Korea for the Dialogue with the Committee against Torture
Source:
Republic of Korea
Date of Document:
14 July 2024
URL:
https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=INT%2FCAT%2FAIS%2FKOR%2F58992&Lang=en
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
The Republic of Korea's Compliance with the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
Source:
Advocates for Human Rights et al.
Date of Document:
10 June 2024
URL:
https://www.theadvocatesforhumanrights.org/Res/TAHR%20WCADP%20TJWG%20CAT%20final.pdf
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
South Korea. Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2024.
Source:
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. University of Oxford.
Date of Document:
17 June 2024
Author:
Hyunwoo Lee; Youngheum Park
Editor:
David Levy; Giles Wilson
URL:
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news-report/2024/south-korea
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
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