South Korea: Briefing for ASEM Foreign Ministers Meeting, March 1999

Index Number: IOR 30/007/1999
Date Published: 1 March 1999
Categories: Asia And The Pacific, South Korea

This paper briefly outlines Amnesty International's concerns on South Korea for the benefit of ministers attending the ASEM meeting in March 1999. Areas of concern raised are the death penalty, the National Security Law, migrant workers, trade unionitsts and the establishment of a National Human Rights Commission.