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SUMMARY: Challenges Following the Ratification of the UN Convention on Enfo
 rced Disappearance in South Korea
DESCRIPTION: Dr. Tae-Ung Baik will draw on his experience at the UN to exam
 ine cases of enforced disappearances related to South Korea in light of the
  country's ratification of the UN Convention for the Protection of All Pers
 ons from Enforced Disappearance (CED) in 2022.
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 01/challenges-1.png" alt="" width="715" height="402" /></p><ul><li>Date: Fr
 iday\, Jan 26th\, 2024</li><li>Time: 3:30-5:00PM (PST)</li><li>Location: Th
 e Case Room (Room 132)\, UBC Liu Institute for Global Issues</li><li>Speake
 r: Dr. Tae-Ung Baik (Professor of Law & DPC Chair\, WSRSL\, Director of Cen
 tre for Korean Studies at University of Hawaii at Manoa)</li><li>Bio: Dr. T
 ae-Ung Baik is a Professor at the William S. Richardson School of Law and D
 irector of the Center for Korean Studies\, University of Hawaii at Manoa. H
 e served the United Nations Human Rights Council Working Group on Enforced 
 or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) as Member (July 2015- April 2022)\, V
 ice-Chair (2018-2020)\, and Chair-Rapporteur (2020-2021). He received his f
 irst law degree from Seoul National University College of Law\, and earned 
 his master (LL.M.) and doctoral (J.S.D.) degrees from Notre Dame Law School
 . He was admitted to the Bar as an attorney-at-law in the State of New York
  and had researched as a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School (2002-2003)
  and Seoul National University (2017-2018). He teaches international human 
 rights law\, comparative law\, and human rights in Asia.</li><li>Abstract: 
 On December 8\, 2022\, South Korea ratified the UN Convention for the Prote
 ction of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (CED)\, one of the key hum
 an rights treaties of the United Nations. Currently\, many cases of enforce
 d disappearances directly or indirectly related to South Korea have been fi
 led with UN Special Procedure mechanisms. There are cases related to the Ko
 rean War in the 1950s\, abductions by North Korea in the 1960s and 1970s\, 
 cases related to North Korean defectors in the 1980s\, and various cases of
  enforced disappearance raised by North Korea recently. Cases such as disap
 pearances that happened during the Pacific War have also been raised throug
 h the UN systems. The ratification of CED has a very important meaning in t
 hat it adopts international standards for dealing with the issue of enforce
 d disappearance. However\, Korea has yet to adopt the implementation law. B
 ased on the speakers work at the UN\, this presentation will examine the va
 rious efforts to prevent enforced disappearance at the United Nations and c
 hallenges being raised in South Korea after its ratification of the CED.</l
 i></ul>
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