Rigoberta Menchú TUM "We have learned that change cannot come through war..."
Hillary CLINTON "I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda..."
Robert Lee – Korea Herald – Monday, 30 January 2012 (originally published 26 Jan) Gender Equality Minister Kim Kum-lae says she is striving to make Korea a global symbol of women’s empowerment. The country has been accepted to chair United Nations Women, the U.N.’s entity for gender equality and the empowerment of women, according to [...]
BBC – Tuesday, 20 December 2011 (originally published 14 Dec) South Korean women kept as sex slaves by the Japanese army during World War II have held their 1,000th rally outside the Japanese embassy in Seoul. A group of the women and their supporters unveiled a statue of a girl in traditional costume there. Demonstrators [...]
Tim Large - Alertnet – Tuesday, 11 October 2011 (originally published 07 Oct) HAEJU, North Korea, Oct 6 (AlertNet) – In a pediatric hospital in North Korea’s most productive farming province, children lay two to a bed. All showed signs of severe malnutrition: skin infections, patchy hair, listless apathy. “Their mothers have to bring them [...]
Lisa Schroeder – Yonhap – Tuesday, 13 September 2011 (originally published 07 Sept) In comparison, Iceland ranks No. 1, with the United States at 19 and the Philippines at 9. Korean women have only half the chance as Korean men at economic participation, opportunity as well as wage equality. This is in stark contrast to [...]
Arirang Korea Radio / TV – Monday, 11 July, 2011 (This is a transcription of today’s radio show from Airang Korea Radio) We have Arirang Today’s Producer Park Hee-ju joining us now in the studio. Hello, Hee-ju. [Reporter : ] Hello there. So speaking of the world population day I mean, Korea is still struggling [...]
