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2017.06.28
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A new North Korean human rights group that draws its membership entirely from the legal profession held its inaugural meeting in southern Seoul on September 10th.
“Lawyers for Korean Peninsula Human Rights and Unification” does not intend to engage in traditional activism, founding leader Kim Tae Hoon explained at the event. Rather, he said the group wishes to focus on legal mechanisms. “At this time there is the acute need for lawyers to act; using legal means to improve human rights conditions in North Korea,” Kim noted.
The group’s mission is: ▲ to devise ways to bring about the rapid enactment of the North Korean Human Rights Act; ▲ to attempt to bring about resolutions to pressing issues including those of POWs, abductees, defectors, and separated families; and ▲ to conduct research into the development of legal and institutional mechanisms for use in the unification process and thereafter.
The group, which has 100 founding members, has been preparing for official launch since January this year, and has already hosted a number of workshops to establish policy and procedure for its activities, as well as some modest activities targeting the National Assembly.
A new North Korean human rights group that draws its membership entirely from the legal profession held its inaugural meeting in southern Seoul on September 10th.
“Lawyers for Korean Peninsula Human Rights and Unification” does not intend to engage in traditional activism, founding leader Kim Tae Hoon explained at the event. Rather, he said the group wishes to focus on legal mechanisms. “At this time there is the acute need for lawyers to act; using legal means to improve human rights conditions in North Korea,” Kim noted.
The group’s mission is: ▲ to devise ways to bring about the rapid enactment of the North Korean Human Rights Act; ▲ to attempt to bring about resolutions to pressing issues including those of POWs, abductees, defectors, and separated families; and ▲ to conduct research into the development of legal and institutional mechanisms for use in the unification process and thereafter.
The group, which has 100 founding members, has been preparing for official launch since January this year, and has already hosted a number of workshops to establish policy and procedure for its activities, as well as some modest activities targeting the National Assembly.
