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2008.10.2 No.7 |
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Women's power brings peace in the Northeast Asia!
<Northeast Asian Women's Peace Conference> |
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 '2008 Northeast Asian Women's Peace Conference' was held in Seoul and Kaesong between September 1 and 3, 2008, in which women from 5 countries such as Korea, China, Japan, Russia and the United States participated.
Major women society personages involved in women's and peace movement organizations from 3 Northeast Asian countries, the U.S.A. and Russia gathered together and agreed that the peace in the Korean Peninsula is directly linked to the peace in the Northeast and the world at the same time.
On September 1, 2008, a reception dinner was held under the theme entitled 'Night of Northeast Asian Women's Peace' and on the second day, September 2, theme presentations were made by countries and bull sessions were held by congresswoman and women's organization under the titles of 'Women talk about peace in the Northeast Asia' and 'direction of solidarity amongst international women for peace and unification in the Korean Peninsula.' . more>> |
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3rd Women's Labor Forum
'Labor and Discrimination: focusing on European cases" |
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Korean Women Workers' Association (KWWA) and Korean Women's Trade Union (KWTU) have planned Women's Labor Forums four times. The 1st forum dealt with equal pay for work of equal value in the U.S.A. and U.K., and the 2nd forum, equal pay for work of equal value in Korea. In this third forum, researcher Eun Soomi focused on equal pay for work of equal value in European countries.
In Europe, it is said that social supports for gender equality are basically strong, wage differences by size and employment type are smaller, and protection levels in accordance with collective agreements are quite high. Korea experiences the lack of related regulations and practices and there are quite a lot of differences between Korea and European countries, and so, when Korea follows and adopts only the flexible trends of European countries and ignore its social and cultural contexts, there will be quite high possibilities to cause social problems.
European countries have already had the practices of equal pay for work of equal value and how to expand its application is a question. However, because there is no practice of equal pay for work of equal value in Korea, first of all, the question to define "what" is equal pay for work of equal value has to be discussed.. more>> |
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Will you leave KTX and Saemauel express trains women workers alone on the 40 meter high steel tower even on the Choosuk national holiday day of hope and integration? |
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 Korea Railroad Corporation should solve the problem for the KTX and Saemauel express train women workers urgently!
On September 8, 2008, civil and women's organizations such as Cultural Action, Women Corea, Korean Women's Trade Union, Buddhist Solidarity for Reform, People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy, Korean Women’s Associations United, Action, and KYC had a press conference in front of KTX Seoul Station, calling for prompt solutions for KTX and Saemauel express train women workers.
These organizations made their severe criticism of the Korea Railroad Corporation for no will to settle KTX and Saemauel express train women workers' issues which have been unsettled for over 900 days and its rudeness of keeping on outsourcing human resources, and demanded that the corporation should take responsible action for the problem in accordance with 2006's recommendation by the National Human Rights Commission of Korea and the decision by the Seoul district court and high court that the Korea Railroad Corporation is the real owner. In addition, these organizations demanded that the corporation should solve the problem promptly in order for the women workers not to spend the national holiday on the 40meter steel tower, and in order to make an exemplary and mutually beneficial case and to create a cooperative society like a full moon of cooperation and happiness. more>> |
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