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Four Religions Come Together to Inaugurate Council for Migrant Rights

2014-12-18 17:43

On December 17, one day before UN-designated International Migrants Day (the 18th), four religious organizations formally inaugurated the Council for Migrant Rights, at a ceremony in the Korean Christian Building on Daehak-no, Jongno-gu, Seoul.

The new Council for Migrant Rights has been organized by the National Council of Churches in Korea (NCCK)’s Migrant Workers Subcommittee, the Catholic Church of Korea’s National Association of Migrant Workers Pastoral Committees, the Korean Buddhist Jogye Order’s Council of Maha Migrant Support Organizations, and the Won Buddhists’ Human Rights Committee, with the purpose of expanding basic rights for migrant workers residing in Korea.

In its press release at the inaugural ceremony, the Council for Migrant Rights said, “Based on our religious conscience and faith, we will work together closely to confront and eradicate inhumane, institutionalized violence…We strongly denounce the present government’s neglect of legal reforms for protection of migrants’ rights, which has led to various sorts of control and exploitation of labor power, and to institutionalized discrimination.”

Article and photo by reporter Jin Samyeol (samuel@kmib.co.kr), with Marion Kim (marionkkim@icloud.com)


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