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[in_seoul_2003]

Fantastic! Congratulations to Ms. Lee. So is she actually going to do something with this position or did she get it just because she's Korean and so is Ban?

First step: do something about Korean sailors buying sex in Kiribati:

--2003 - Kiriibati bans Korean ships because they are consistently trying to buy sex, some women as young as 14.

--they go at it again

--2005 Kiribati bans Korean ships because they are consistently trying to buy sex, some women as young as 14.

--they go at it again

--2006 ecpat Korea goes over there and publishes a report. The kids servicing Korean sailors are getting younger. They do a nice photo op (being Korean) with the kids waving the Korean flag - "Thanks Korean Ecpat for saving us"

--2007 the Korean sailors are at it again, and still are.

And this only acounts for Korean bevavior on one little island with a pop. of, what, 90,000. Where's the Koean government in all of this? Where's Korea ecpat? Where's this Lee broad?

http://koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/special/2009/05/139_45657.html


Prof. Lee Re-elected to Head UN Children Rights Committee



Prof. Lee Yang-hee
By Park Si-soo
Staff Reporter

Prof. Lee Yang-hee, 53, of Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul was reelected as chairperson of the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child, her aides said Monday.

Serving as head of the committee since 2007, Lee was reelected during its general meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, they said.

The committee is a body of independent experts that monitor abusive practices against children such as trafficking, prostitution and pornography internationally.

With the election, she is to lead the organization for another two years.

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[madoka]

So according to a report on child trafficking in Central and South America, annually there are over 1,000,000 children exposed to commerical sexual exploitation. But since Ms. Lee is Korean, her #1 step should be to do something about Korean sailors exploiting 30-50 underage prostitutes on Kiribati? Those Koreans certainly should be punished harshly, but you sound like just another idiot with an anti-Korean axe to grind.

[in_seoul_2003]

Precisely! An anti-Korean axe grinding away, because we all know that out of all the nations in the world, among all the people representing these nations, this little nation, is qualified to send out one of its members to head a UN body precisely for no other reason that she is qualified. An absolutely anything to the contrary is an axe grinding away. Dipstick...

[harlowethrombey]

I hope she is qualified and I hope something more is done.

This is an important moral issue for the entire planet.

Although let's be honest, the U.N. hasnt exactly been much of a force for. . . anything in quite a long time.

[OculisOrbis]

sounds like its about time that korean sailors submit health/HIV tests, drug tests and criminal record checks before boarding to sail............but that would actually make sense.

[pkang0202]

[Frankly Mr Shankly]

[pkang0202]

Let me clarify, the humanitarian aspects of the UN are great. They do great work in helping people.

The rest of the UN is a joke. UN peacekeepers? UN security council? UN regulating foreign trade?

[theotherlebowski]

I am surprised the Mods allowed this post with the huge generalization, and with, as other posters pointed out, an anti-Korea axe to grind.

Maybe I should make a new post with "Are there any Americans qualified to even appear in the UN" and skewer John Bolton.

[madoka]

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[Xuanzang]