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State Under Review:Republic of KoreaRepublic of KoreaRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupSource Of Reference:UN CompilationIssue:
- Sex work / "prostitution"
Type:Review DocumentationSession:14th session, November 2012Status:NeglectedContents:... Review its prostitution policy and relevant legislation, with a view to decriminalizing women's involvement in prostitution. [Para 20; CEDAW] -
State Under Review:Republic of KoreaRepublic of KoreaRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupSource Of Reference:Stakeholder SummaryIssue:
- Women's and / or girls' rights
Type:Review DocumentationSession:14th session, November 2012Status:NeglectedContents:JS5 reported that unwed mothers are often forced to relinquish their children due to social stigma and financial difficulties resulting from the prejudice. Under the National Basic Livelihood security system, people may not receive government support unless they have no family or unless the whole family, including siblings, is in poverty. Laws to compel fathers to pay child support are still not enforced. KFPN and JS5 recommended amendment of the Single-Parent Family Welfare Act and the National Basic Livelihood Security Act. [Para 36] -
State Under Review:Republic of KoreaRepublic of KoreaRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupSource Of Reference:GermanyGermanyRegional groupWEOGPolitical groupEUIssue:
- Gender equality
Type:QuestionSession:2nd session, May 2008Status:Not Followed up with a RecommendationContents:It asked about possible plans to change the relevant legislation in order to allow for a more active participation of female foreign spouses in the economic sphere and to shield them from abuse. -
State Under Review:Republic of KoreaRepublic of KoreaRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupSource Of Reference:ChileChileRegional groupGRULACPolitical groupOASOEIIssue:
- Discrimination based on sexual orientation
- Discrimination based on gender identity
Type:RecommendationSession:42nd Session, January 2023Status:Unclear ResponseContents:Adopt a legislative framework that prohibits discriminatory practices on the basis of sexual orientation and/or gender identity, and that prohibits discriminatory practices on the basis of gender identity.
ExplanationNoted. The Government face difficulties in taking immediate actions in a short period of time.
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State Under Review:Republic of KoreaRepublic of KoreaRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupSource Of Reference:NamibiaNamibiaRegional groupAfrica GroupPolitical groupAUCommonwealthIssue:
- International human rights instruments
Type:RecommendationSession:42nd Session, January 2023Status:Unclear ResponseContents:Withdraw the reservation to Article 16 (1) (g) of the CEDAW.
ExplanationNoted. The Government is continuously reviewing the recommendations.
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State Under Review:Republic of KoreaRepublic of KoreaRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupSource Of Reference:LithuaniaLithuaniaRegional groupEEGPolitical groupEUIssue:
- Birth registration
Type:RecommendationSession:42nd Session, January 2023Status:AcceptedContents:Establish universal birth registration that allows the registration of births of all children born in the Republic of Korea, regardless of parents’ legal or social status.
ExplanationTo introduce the birth notification system, the proposal on an amendment to the Family Relations Registration Act has been drafted and is under deliberation in the National Assembly.
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State Under Review:Republic of KoreaRepublic of KoreaRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupSource Of Reference:IcelandIcelandRegional groupWEOGIssue:
- Rights of same-sex desiring persons
- Transgender persons' rights
Type:RecommendationSession:42nd Session, January 2023Status:AcceptedContents:Ban conversion therapies.
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State Under Review:Republic of KoreaRepublic of KoreaRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupSource Of Reference:BrazilBrazilRegional groupGRULACPolitical groupOASOEIIssue:
- Gender equality
- Violence against women / gender-based violence
Type:RecommendationSession:42nd Session, January 2023Status:AcceptedContents:Adopt further concrete measures to combat gender-based violence and gender inequality, including by increasing women`s participation in both private and public sectors.
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State Under Review:Republic of KoreaRepublic of KoreaRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupSource Of Reference:CroatiaCroatiaRegional groupEEGPolitical groupEUIssue:
- Sexual violence
Type:RecommendationSession:42nd Session, January 2023Status:AcceptedContents:Introduce measures to increase public awareness and combat social controversies and stigma attached to victims of sexual violence.
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State Under Review:Republic of KoreaRepublic of KoreaRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupSource Of Reference:UN CompilationIssue:
- Marginalized groups of women
- Violence against women / gender-based violence
Type:Review DocumentationSession:42nd Session, January 2023Status:Not Followed up with a RecommendationContents:The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination recommended protecting migrant women from gender-based violence and ensuring that victims were provided with adequate assistance, regardless of their immigration status. [Para 62]
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State Under Review:Republic of KoreaRepublic of KoreaRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupSource Of Reference:Stakeholder SummaryIssue:
- Birth registration
Type:Review DocumentationSession:42nd Session, January 2023Status:Reference AddressedContents:JS5 and JS11 recommended introducing a universal birth registration system to guarantee that every child born within the jurisdiction of the Republic of Korea is officially registered, regardless of their parents’ nationality, race, religion, or legal or social status. Additionally, JS11 stated that the Government should improve its birth registration system to allow children born to unwed parents to be registered without difficulties. [Para 76]
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State Under Review:Republic of KoreaRepublic of KoreaRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupSource Of Reference:UN CompilationIssue:
- Intersex persons' rights
- Discrimination based on sexual orientation
- Training for state personnel on sexual rights issues
- Discrimination based on gender identity
- Violence on the basis of sexual orientation
- Violence on the basis of gender identity
Type:Review DocumentationSession:42nd Session, January 2023Status:Reference AddressedContents:The HR Committee regretted that no measures had been taken to implement its recommendations, made in 2015, to officially state that the Government did not tolerate any discrimination, hate speech or violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons or the propagation of “conversion therapies”, to strengthen the legal framework to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons and to conduct campaigns and provide training to promote tolerance and awareness of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons. The Committee reiterated those recommendations. [Para 85]
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State Under Review:Republic of KoreaRepublic of KoreaRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupSource Of Reference:National ReportIssue:
- Women's participation
Type:Review DocumentationSession:2nd session, May 2008Status:N/AContents:The participation of women in policy-making processes has been increased with the introduction of the Equal Employment Initiative for Women as well as the amendment of the Act on Elections for Public Officers which calls for at least 50 per cent of the political parties' candidates for proportional representation in the National Assembly to be women. Social activities of women have increased as well in the labor market with the establishment of the Basic Plan on Gender Equality in Employment, the establishment of the Comprehensive Human Resources Development Plan for Women and the enactment of the Act for the Creation of a Family-Friendly Social Environment. [Para 73] -
State Under Review:Republic of KoreaRepublic of KoreaRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupSource Of Reference:United KingdomUnited KingdomRegional groupWEOGPolitical groupEUCommonwealthIssue:
- HIV and AIDS
Type:QuestionSession:2nd session, May 2008Status:Not Followed up with a RecommendationContents:Some visa categories, notably 'E-2 Teaching Foreign Languages' ask applicants for their HIV status, and there have been reports of foreigners being deported because of their HIV status. Does the ROK Government consider this to be discrimination and, if so, what measures will it take to address this issue? -
State Under Review:Republic of KoreaRepublic of KoreaRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupSource Of Reference:ColombiaColombiaRegional groupGRULACPolitical groupOASOEIACSIssue:
- Discrimination based on sexual orientation
- Discrimination based on gender identity
Type:RecommendationSession:28th Session November 2017Status:Unclear ResponseContents:Adopt general legislation to combat discrimination on any ground, particularly on the grounds of race, sexual orientation or gender identity, and strengthen the mechanisms to eliminate xenophobic speech against migrants and multi-cultural families.ExplanationNoted. The Government has devoted considerable legislative efforts to prohibit discrimination through the Constitution and 90 other legislations. Meanwhile, considering the controversy over the prohibited grounds of discrimination, the enactment of the general anti-discrimination law, which provides general remedial procedure for the victims of discriminatory acts, requires considerable examination and opinion-gathering process to reach public consensus regarding the matter. Furthermore, imposing criminal punishment for discriminatory acts requires a careful review. -
State Under Review:Republic of KoreaRepublic of KoreaRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupSource Of Reference:Costa RicaCosta RicaRegional groupGRULACPolitical groupOASOEIACSIssue:
- Criminal laws on same-sex sexual practices
- Rights of same-sex desiring persons
Type:RecommendationSession:28th Session November 2017Status:Unclear ResponseContents:Repeal article 92-6 of the Military Criminal Code which criminalizes consensual sexual relations between people of the same sex in the army.ExplanationNoted. Cases regarding whether or not the consensual same-sex activities is punishable under Article 92-6 of the Military Criminal Act and its constitutionality are pending with the ordinary court and the Constitutional Court, and the Government will conform to the final rulings of the judicial branch. -
State Under Review:Republic of KoreaRepublic of KoreaRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupSource Of Reference:Costa RicaCosta RicaRegional groupGRULACPolitical groupOASOEIACSIssue:
- Gender equality
- Women's participation
Type:RecommendationSession:28th Session November 2017Status:AcceptedContents:Establish a gender quota system to increase women representation in the National Assembly.ExplanationA scheme to expand the ratio of female legislators has already been put in place. The Political Reform Special Committee of the National Assembly agreed on revising the Public Official Election Act to strengthen the effectiveness of the scheme which requires that a certain number of female candidates be recommended in the election of proportional representatives for the National Assembly. -
State Under Review:Republic of KoreaRepublic of KoreaRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupSource Of Reference:Sri LankaSri LankaRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupCommonwealthIssue:
- Violence against women / gender-based violence
- Domestic violence
Type:RecommendationSession:28th Session November 2017Status:AcceptedContents:Continue implementation of its Comprehensive Plan to Prevent Domestic Violence, including through awareness raising. -
State Under Review:Republic of KoreaRepublic of KoreaRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupSource Of Reference:ChinaChinaRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupIssue:
- Gender equality
Type:RecommendationSession:14th session, November 2012Status:AcceptedContents:Formulate a national strategy to promote gender equality so as to advance the status of women, combat violence and eliminate discrimination against women.ImplementationNational Report:
Para 16) The Government shifted the paradigm of policy on women to gender mainstreaming, aiming at achieving gender equality by more effective use of the policies that had been in place, including Gender Impact Analysis and Assessment, Gender Budget and Gender Statistics. The Committee on Gender Equality has been tasked with duties including coordination, cooperation, and execution of policies on gender equality by central government and local government. A new obligation on the ODA to make efforts to encourage equal participation of both genders and to develop measures to ensure gender equality in the programs was introduced.
Para 26) The Government introduced the Comprehensive Plan to Prevent Domestic Violence in 2011, expanded the scope of institutions obliged to receive mandatory education on the prevention of domestic violence, and exerted its effort to raise awareness of domestic violence and its elimination. Police stations at all levels have been deployed with police officers exclusively in charge of domestic violence. The Act on Special Cases Concerning the Punishment, etc. of Crimes of Domestic Violence was amended to strengthen the early response to domestic violence, granting the police with authority to enter the site of violence to investigate; allowing the victims or their legal representatives to request a protective order by the court; and imposing punishment on anyone who fails to comply with an urgent interim measures. The change of resident registration number has been allowed since May 2017, for the victims of sexual violence, domestic violence, or sex trade who either have been damaged or are at risk of damage from the leakage of resident registration number and this policy will further be complemented taking into account the needs of the victims of violence. Moreover, the Government will enact a comprehensive and general legislation for the prevention of gender-based violence.
Para 42) To ensure non-discrimination against women and achieve gender equality, the Government wholly revised the Framework Act on Women’s Development into the Framework Act on Gender Equality. The paradigm of the policies on women shifted from women’s development to the actual gender equality. All Government agencies are now responsible for taking up measures for gender mainstreaming in the course of performing their duties. The revised Act newly stipulates provisions concerning the Gender Impact Analysis and Assessment, Gender Budgeting, Gender Statistics, Education on Gender Sensitivity, and developing and announcing the Gender Equality Index. The national gender equality index is composed of eight categories and 23 indices, including economic activity, decision making, education and career training, welfare, health care, safety, family, and culture and information.
Para 44) In order to address the inequality of women in employment and labour market, the Equal Employment Opportunity and Work-Family Balance Assistance Act stipulates the principle of equal pay for equal work, the violation of which is subject to criminal punishment. Various policies have been put in place to enable work-family balance and prevent women’s career break, such as childcare leave, part-time job, flexible work arrangements, and the establishment of infrastructure for telecommuting and ubiquitous working. Childcare leave was expanded in 2014 to allow the parents with children under the age 8 or grade 2 to take the leave up to one year. In order to promote paternity leave, the Government introduced a Father’s Month program since 2014. If both parents take the childcare leave successively for the same child, the childcare benefit for the second parent is raised to 100% of their ordinary monthly wage up to KRW 1.5 million for the first month of childcare leave.
UN Compilation:
Para 53) The HR Committee was concerned about discrimination against women and about the small proportion of women in decision-making positions, the high rate of women in irregular employment and the high wage gap between men and women.
Para 54) The Working Group on business and human rights noted that women reportedly left the labour force at a high rate when they married or had children and found it difficult to reenter the workforce after a career break. ILO Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations welcomed the measures taken by the Government to reconcile work and family responsibilities as a means of improving women’s participation in employment and requested the Government to continue its efforts.
Stakeholder Summary: Para 9) NHRCK reported on the under-representation of women in the labour market. Women often had to take up low paid non regular jobs. Balancing work and family life remained difficult largely due to the lack of decent public day care facilities and the low use of paternity leaves. The Government has made some efforts to increase employment rates of women and younger people, but those efforts had limited effect in the last three years.
Para 72) JS2 reported on discrimination against women and on the gender wage gap. Additionally, about 53 percent of women employees were in non-regular jobs. -
State Under Review:Republic of KoreaRepublic of KoreaRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupSource Of Reference:AlgeriaAlgeriaRegional groupAfrica GroupPolitical groupAUOICALIssue:
- Sexual violence
Type:RecommendationSession:28th Session November 2017Status:AcceptedContents:Strengthen the institutional and legal framework to combat violence against children, in particular sexual violence. -
State Under Review:Republic of KoreaRepublic of KoreaRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupSource Of Reference:MoroccoMoroccoRegional groupAfrica GroupPolitical groupOICALOIFIssue:
- Marginalized groups of women
- Gender equality
Type:RecommendationSession:14th session, November 2012Status:AcceptedContents:Continue implementing policies aimed at intensifying the combat against discrimination, especially with respect to female migrant workers.ImplementationNational Report:
Para 59) The Government provides services to migrant women who are victims of domestic violence through the Emergency Support Centre for Migrant Women, founded in 2006. Since 2014, the services became available in 13 different languages. Since April 2014, through the Danuri Helpline, the Government provides a one-stop emergency counselling service on life in Korea and domestic violence report. The Shelter for Migrant Women provides safe protection to migrant women who are victims of domestic violence and their accompanying children and provides assistance for counselling, medical treatment, legal advice, and departure. The average number of persons protected at the centre increased from 17 in 2008 to 271 in 2016. Furthermore, special provisions are written into the Immigrant Act to permit extension of a migrant’s stay in the ROK if the person is a victim of domestic violence, sexual violence, human trafficking, or other forms of violence committed in the country and is in the process of seeking a trial, an investigation by an investigative agency, or other medical procedures, so as to enable the victims to resort to judicial proceedings with confidence. -
State Under Review:Republic of KoreaRepublic of KoreaRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupSource Of Reference:Stakeholder SummaryIssue:
- Birth registration
Type:Review DocumentationSession:28th Session November 2017Status:Reference AddressedContents:CGNK encouraged the Government to establish a comprehensive birth registration system. [Para 23] -
State Under Review:Republic of KoreaRepublic of KoreaRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupSource Of Reference:NetherlandsNetherlandsRegional groupWEOGPolitical groupEUIssue:
- International human rights instruments
- Trafficking in women and / or girls
Type:RecommendationSession:14th session, November 2012Status:AcceptedContents:Ratify the Palermo Protocol.ImplementationNational Report:
Para 55) The Government amended the Criminal Act to newly stipulate the crime of human trafficking in order to ratify the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, Supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime. The amended Criminal Act expanded the purpose of kidnapping and abduction, along with the previously stipulated purpose of “engaging in an indecent act, sexual intercourse or marriage, or for gain” and “transportation of a person out of the Republic of Korea”, to include the purpose of “labour exploitation, sex trafficking, or the acquisition of organs”. The consequentially aggravated crimes of human trafficking were also more specified into bodily injury and murder and death, in line with the principle of liability. A person who recruits, transfers, or delivers another with the intent to commit human trafficking has become principal rather than accessory under the amended Criminal Act, as such acts are defined as distinct acts of crimes. The provision of universal jurisdiction has been introduced so as to punish foreign nationals in the territory of the Republic of Korea, who have committed the same crime outside the Republic of Korea. The Government presented the bill for the consent of the ratification of the Protocol on Trafficking in Persons, which passed National Assembly in 2015 and the instrument of ratification was deposited with the United Nations. The Protocol took effect in Korea on 5 December 2015.
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State Under Review:Republic of KoreaRepublic of KoreaRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupSource Of Reference:UN CompilationIssue:
- Forced sterilization
Type:Review DocumentationSession:28th Session November 2017Status:Reference AddressedContents:[CRPD] was concerned about cases of forced sterilization of women with disabilities, despite legal provisions prohibiting the practice. It urged the authorities to eradicate the practice. [Para 63] -
State Under Review:Republic of KoreaRepublic of KoreaRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupSource Of Reference:UN CompilationIssue:
- Sexual violence
- Domestic violence
Type:Review DocumentationSession:14th session, November 2012Status:Reference AddressedContents:... CEDAW also expressed its concern about the limited number of women police officers available to deal with cases of sexual and domestic violence ... [Para 18]