President Yoon Suk Yeol shot down a bill that would have given the National Assembly the authority to initiate a new probe into the deadly crowd crush incident in Seoul during the Halloween weekend in October 2022, his office announced Tuesday. The decision came hours after the Cabinet passed a motion on Tuesday morning demanding the parliament reconsider a special bill and giving Yoon grounds to veto it, at the Gove.
President Yoon Suk Yeol shot down a bill that would have given the National Assembly the authority to initiate a new probe into the deadly crowd crush incident in Seoul during the Halloween weekend in October 2022, his office announced Tuesday. The decision came hours after the Cabinet passed a motion on Tuesday morning demanding the parliament reconsider a special bill and giving Yoon grounds to veto it, at the Gove.
The chief of the nation s human rights agency urged President Yoon Suk Yeol, Monday, to sign into law a special bill that seeks a new investigation into the 2022 Itaewon crowd crush amid growing anticipation that the president will reject the bill.
The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) has urged the Korean government to provide full reparations to three Filipinas who were forced into prostitution.
The head of the state human rights commission has held a meeting with the United Nations deputy high commissioner for human rights and called for international efforts to address the repatriation of North Koreans from China, officials said Wednesday.