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 Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2016 8:48 pm Post subject: Update to UNCERD's ruling against ROK's HIV testing |
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Princeton University and Boston University have taken down postings for scholarship programs in South Korea that require HIV testing
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Two prominent American colleges have removed advertisements for South Korean government scholarships that bar people with HIV, following the intervention of human rights activists.
Princeton University on Thursday took down a posting on its website that advertised the Korean Government Scholarship Program, which funds study at universities in South Korea, over concerns that it was discriminatory. The move came less than a fortnight after the Frederick S Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University quietly removed references to the scholarship in similar circumstances.
UCLA, Stanford University and the University of Portland continue to host details of the scholarship on their websites, while Ohio State University directs students to another scholarship, Teach and Learn in Korea, that also bans HIV-positive applicants.
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Princeton and Boston University took the action after Joe Amon, a Princeton professor and the former director of Human Rights Watch, and Benjamin Wagner, a US human rights lawyer, respectively expressed their concerns to college authorities.
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Wagner, who successfully led a case against South Korea’s mandatory testing of foreign English teachers before a UN committee on racial discrimination last year, said colleges advertising the programs could be in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. That law bans discrimination in education based on disability, including HIV status.
“While the scholarships aren’t offered by the US schools directly, there’s likely enough of a nexus between Korean government ‘no Aids’ scholarships and the promotion of it by the US schools to justify a complaint of ‘harassment’ – at a minimum – to the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, Office for Civil Rights,” Wagner said.
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In South Korea, HIV/Aids is often associated with prostitution, homosexuality and drug use, all of which are widely seen as morally degenerate. The country tests certain foreigners for the virus, despite the UN Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination ruling the policy to be discriminatory last year. South Korea has defended its policy as necessary to protect public health. |
This is an update to the UNCERD Ruling against South Korea for their AIDS testing on certain visa applicants, including NETs. |
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