S. Korean professor reelected as member of UN rights body

A South Korean professor has been reelected as a member of a UN committee monitoring social and human rights compliance, the foreign ministry said Thursday. Lee Joo-young, a research professor at Seoul National University Human Rights Center, will serve another four-year term starting 2027 on the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the ministry said in a release. The CESCR, consisting of 18 human rights experts, is a UN body that monitors how countries implement the International

By The Korea Herald