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30 March 2008: "Twelve North Koreans Seek Asylum in Laos" |
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Tuesday, 29 April 2008 04:53 |
The South Korean Embassy in Laos,
to which HRWF Int'l led 12 North Korean refugees to safety.
On Thursday 27 March at 11:55 a.m. (Laos time), a team of Brussels-based NGO Human Rights Without Frontiers Int'l (HRWF Int'l) led by Willy Fautré from Belgium and Pierre Rigoulot from Paris took 12 North Korean citizens into the embassy of South Korea in Vientiane to help them apply for protection and political asylum. The guards were taken by surprise and could not oppose any resistance to the group.
The twelve North Koreans (one man and eleven women, including an unaccompanied 13-year old girl) had travelled through China before getting stranded in Laos. Nine of them had arrived in the country on 20 January 2008 and three more on 26 March. Less than two hours later, HRWF Int'l received the news that the South Korean embassy was processing their request for political asylum in South Korea. |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 05 June 2008 11:40 )
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Human Rights in China 2001-2008, No Olympic Medal: Assessment by European NGOs |
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Tuesday, 29 April 2008 04:49 |
On 18 December 2007, Human Rights Without Frontiers International organized a conference on human rights in China at the European Parliament in Brussels.
Objective
When in 2001 the International Olympic Committee awarded the 2008 Olympic Games to Beijing, it did so because the Beijing bidding committee pledged that the hosting of the Games "will help the development of human rights" and most notably, "there will be no restrictions on media reporting and movement of journalists up to and including the Olympic Games".
The objective of the conference was: - to measure the lack of progress of China in the field of human rights between 2001 and 2007;
- to have this assessment carried out by European human rights NGOs;
- to garner the support of former Sakharov Prize laureates and some members of the Parliament;
- to collect signatures of Sakharov Prize laureates, MEPs and NGO leaders under a Declaration confirming the lack of progress in the light of the resolutions of the European Parliament in the last two years.
Please explore the statements and reports delivered at the 18 December conference below. If you have any comments, you are welcome to share them with us here. |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 29 April 2008 12:11 )
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HRWF International: New Reports |
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Tuesday, 29 April 2008 04:51 |
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Human Rights in China 2001-2008, No Olympic Medal: Speeches, Reports, and Support |
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Tuesday, 29 April 2008 04:47 |
Programme
Support of Four Sakharov Prize Laureates
Support of Six Members of the European Parliament
China’s Human Rights Record Assessed by NGOs - Olympic Charter and Values versus China’s Human Rights Practices
- Freedom of Expression
- Death Penalty
- Solidarité Chine (Marie Holzman)
- Freedom of Religion or Belief
- Trade Unions in China
- International Trade Union Confederation (Carlos Polenus)
- North Korean Refugees in China
- Human Rights Defenders
Brussels Declaration |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 29 April 2008 12:11 )
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