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South Korea: treatment of transgender people by society and authorities, including requirements and procedures to change one's gender on identity documents; requirements and procedures for exemption from obligatory military service for a male who is in the process of undergoing gender transformation; consequences for not completing military service (2014-March 2016) 24 March 2016 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
République de Corée : information sur le traitement réservé aux personnes transgenres par la société et les autorités, y compris sur les exigences et la marche à suivre pour changer le sexe inscrit sur les documents d'identité; exigences et marche à suivre pour l'exemption du service militaire obligatoire pour un homme dont le processus de changement de sexe est en cours; conséquences de ne pas accomplir son service militaire (2014-mars 2016) 24 March 2016 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Voices of survivors must be heard, UN chief says after meeting 'comfort women' victim 11 March 2016 \| Publisher: UN News Service \| Document type: Country News
Amnesty International Report 2015/16 - Korea (Republic of) 24 February 2016 \| Publisher: Amnesty International \| Document type: Annual Reports
South Korean court finds blogger guilty of blogging positively about North Korea 22 January 2016 \| Publisher: Committee to Protect Journalists \| Document type: Country News
Country Report: The Right to Information in South Korea 21 January 2016 \| Publisher: Article 19 \| Document type: Country News
South Korea to restart border broadcasts to North after nuclear test 7 January 2016 \| Publisher: Radio Free Asia \| Document type: Country News
South Korea receives first refugees in pilot programme 23 December 2015 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) \| Document type: Country News
Freedom on the Net 2015 - South Korea 28 October 2015 \| Publisher: Freedom House \| Document type: Annual Reports
Japanese journalist could get jail over coverage of South Korea's president 19 October 2015 \| Publisher: Reporters Without Borders \| Document type: Country News

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