Rights Claiming in South Korea
Title | Rights Claiming in South Korea PDF eBook |
Author | Celeste L. Arrington |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 361 |
Release | 2021-05-27 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1108841333 |
An analysis of rights-based activism in South Korea, including case studies of women, workers, disabled persons, migrants, and sexual minorities.
The North Korean Conundrum
Title | The North Korean Conundrum PDF eBook |
Author | Robert R. King |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 261 |
Release | 2022-04-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1931368686 |
North Korea is consistently identified as one of the world’s worst human rights abusers. However, the issue of human rights in North Korea is a complex one, intertwined with issues like life in the North Korean police state, inter-Korean relations, denuclearization, access to information in the North, and international cooperation, to name a few. There are likewise multiple actors involved, including the two Korean governments, the United States, the United Nations, South Korea NGOs, and global human rights organizations. While North Korea’s nuclear weapons and the security threat it poses have occupied the center stage and eclipsed other issues in recent years, human rights remain important to U.S. policy. The contributors to The North Korean Conundrum explore how dealing with the issue of human rights is shaped and affected by the political issues with which it is so entwined. Sections discuss the role of the United Nations; how North Koreans’ limited access to information is part of the problem, and how this is changing; the relationship between human rights and denuclearization; and North Korean human rights in comparative perspective.
North Korean Human Rights
Title | North Korean Human Rights PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Yeo |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 335 |
Release | 2018-08-09 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1108425496 |
This volume explores the emergence, evolution, and politics of North Korean human rights activism and its relevance for international policy.
Dying for Rights
Title | Dying for Rights PDF eBook |
Author | Sandra Fahy |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2019-09-10 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0231548990 |
North Korea’s human rights violations are unparalleled in the contemporary world. In Dying for Rights, Sandra Fahy provides the definitive account of the abuses committed by the North Korean state, domestically and internationally, from its founding to the present. Dying for Rights scrutinizes North Korea’s treatment of its own people as well as foreign nationals, how violations committed by the state spread into the international realm, and how North Korea uses its state media and presence at the United Nations. Fahy meticulously documents the extent of arbitrary detention, torture, executions, and the network of prison camps throughout the country. The book details systematic and widespread violations of freedom of speech and of movement, freedom from discrimination, and the rights to food and to life. Fahy weaves together public and private testimonies from North Koreans resettled abroad, as well as NGO reports, the stories and facts brought to light by the United Nations Commission of Inquiry into North Korea, and North Korea’s own state media, to share powerful personal narratives of human rights abuses. A compassionate yet objective investigation into the factors that sustain and perpetuate the flouting of basic rights, Dying for Rights reveals the profound culpability of the North Korean state in the systematic denial of human dignity.
Human Rights and Transnational Democracy in South Korea
Title | Human Rights and Transnational Democracy in South Korea PDF eBook |
Author | Ingu Hwang |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Pages | 361 |
Release | 2022-03-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0812298217 |
Drawing on previously unused or underutilized archival sources, Human Rights and Transnational Democracy in South Korea offers the first account of the historical intersection between South Korea's democratic transition and the global human rights boom in the 1970s.
Human Rights in Korea
Title | Human Rights in Korea PDF eBook |
Author | William Shaw |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 365 |
Release | 2020-10-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1684171199 |
These chapters by eight Korea specialists present a new approach to human rights issues in Korea. Instead of using an external and purely contemporary standard, the authors work from within Korean history, treating the successive phases of Korea's modern century to examine the uneasy fate of human rights and some of the ideas of human rights as they have developed in the Korean context. Beginning with the Independence Club of the late nineteenth century and continuing through to the constitutional and judicial structures underlying the Sixth Republic Government of Roh Tae Woo in South Korea, these papers illuminate the sometimes complex interactions between modern Korean human-rights issues and the legacies of Korean culture and colonial occupation.The final sections deal with the usefulness and appropriateness of U.S. policies toward human rights in South Korea and comparatively with the overall issues raised in the volume.
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 23 (2017)
Title | Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 23 (2017) PDF eBook |
Author | Seokwoo Lee |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 343 |
Release | 2019-12-16 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9004415823 |
The Yearbook aims to promote research, studies and writings in the field of international law in Asia, as well as to provide an intellectual platform for the discussion and dissemination of Asian views and practices on contemporary international legal issues.