steel plant project in India and Daewoo International’s compensation for the natural gas project in Myanmar.
107.
The Special Rapporteur on the Implications for Human Rights of the Environmentally Sound
Management and Disposal of Hazardous Substances and Wastes, in the report of his visit to the ROK in 2016,
recommended the Government to pay more attention to the victims of Oxy’s humidifier sterilizer products,
the workers exposed to harmful substances in Samsung Electronics, and the residents in the neighbourhoods
exposed to harmful substances and work out solutions for these victims. In a related move, the NHRCK,
through the NHRCK Chairman’s Statement of 23 May 2016, called on the Government and business
enterprises to make efforts to ensure that the products threatening people’s life and health are not in
circulation, while stressing that the Government should expand its supports to the victims of Oxy’s
humidifier sterilizer products and review and improve the existing system for controlling chemical products
for household use. Moreover, the NHRCK, in its recommendation for the National Action Plans on Business
and Human Rights, called on the Government to set up effective remedial arrangements for the victims,
including class action.
Questions suggested
108.
Please specify the progress of the Government’s activities done in response to the NHRCK’s
recommendation for the establishment of the National Action Plans on Business and Human Rights, along
with its planned timetable for further activities.
109.
Please give the Government’s views about the NHRCK‘s recommendation that, in case a public
organization provides a business enterprise with credit policy financing for import or invests a certain
amount of money or more into a business enterprise, it should take into consideration human rights
conditions of the enterprise and ensure that the enterprise respects human rights.
110.
If the Government has made any improvement in its policy approaches to prevent Korean
enterprises from committing human rights violations in relation to their business activities overseas and, if
any human right violation has occurred, take remedial actions, please specify it.
111.
Please specify the remedial actions and other measures that the Government has taken for the
victims of Oxy’s humidifier sterilizer products, the workers exposed to harmful substances in Samsung
Electronics and the residents in the neighbourhoods exposed to harmful substances.
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