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NHRCK Operates On-site Counseling Service via its Couseling Bus
Date : 2006.07.31 00:00:00
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National Human Rights Commission (NHRCK) took a bus to pay a visit to the disadvantaged class of this society. At Migrant Worker’s House in Guro, Seoul, the first stop in the on-the-road counseling program on Sunday, June 23, some 500 foreign migrant workers and Korean Chinese residents gathered to plead injustice and ill treatment. For the Korean Chinese who kept pouring in, NHRCK deployed six counselors in a church chapel on the fifth floor in addition to three counselors in the counseling bus. But countless people lined up with their stories of injustice and unfair treatment. When all the counseling sessions were over, the clock pointed to 5 in the afternoon.
People told manifold stories of suffering: from unpaid wages and industrial accidents to the problems their mixed-blood children were facing. On the first day of the counseling bus service, the 500 people, who cannot even afford to visit the Human Rights Commission because they are too busy making a living day to day, poured out myriad stories that they couldn’t tell.
The next day, the traveling bus made a stop at Jongmyo Park and provided counseling service to the elderly on human rights. The issue of elder abuse is one of NHRCK’s ten most important tasks for 2006. The counseling records and petitions gathered on the day will be used as basic data for a study on the human rights of the elderly.
