required since the period is more than 1.5 times of active duty and the
punishment of alternative service still remains.
Questions
85.
Please provide information of specific manual and guidelines for
discipline and punishment in the military.
86.
In relation to conscientious objection to military service, please
present the Korean government’s implementation plan on reasonable
alternative service following the NHRCK recommendations and the
Constitutional Court’s decision, including readjustment of service period and
expanding service scope.
Issue 10: Measures to Tackle Violence against Women
Status
87.
Recommendations have made to define sexual violence based on free
consent of victims and in particular, to take the legislative measures to define
non-consensual sexual relations between spouses as a specific criminal
offence by the Committee (the concluding observation on the second (2016)
and the third to fifth (2017) periodic reports of Korea) and by the Committee
on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (the
concluding observation on the seventh (2011) and eight (2018) periodic
reports of Korea). In addition, the UNHRC indicated that Korea should
pursue policies to tackle social, economic, and political discrimination
against women and to prevent domestic violence in the Third Cycle of
Universal Periodic Report (UPR) of Korea.
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