Posted on 11/04/2006 8:52:00 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
A United Nations committee on human rights expressed its concern Friday about South Korea's punitive rules against nationals who refuse to serve in the military.
The Human Rights Committee, one of the seven U.N.-linked human rights treaty bodies, recommended that South Korea stop discriminating against those who refuse to serve their mandatory military service for religious or other personal reasons.
Under the current law, those who refuse can be jailed for up to three years. They also get a criminal record and can be banned from working at government agencies.
The review, a human rights report South Korea submitted in 2004, also expressed regret over Korea's insufficient information in relation to counter-terrorism legislation, and over the punishment of those responsible for domestic violence.
But the committee appreciated South Korea's establishment of the National Human Rights Commission and the Ministry of Gender Equality in recent years.
Geneva, Nov. 3 (Yonhap News)
HEY Jet when did South Korean nationals become p***ys
1958? :0)
yeah.. waht does UN have to say for NK? it's mandatory there...
Okay Jet LOL!
I wonder how if they react if North Korea army suddenly invaded South Korea all sudden if we didn't have our US troops there HMMMMM
UN dogooders spouting ludicrous demands only the most leftwing fringe of S. Korea, i.e., pro-North Democratic Labor Party aka the den of Juchebots, can espouse.
If this doesn't demonstrate what the UN has become, nothing ever will.
I'd love to grab Kofi by his scrawny neck and stick my fingers up his nose. (with rubber gloves on)
LOL!
"I'm kunfuzzed."
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Sorry for the long post. DRPK is not on the list.
what about Israel and Switzerland? I believe military service is compulsary there, guys and galls.
Norway as well.
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