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Asia Foundation Korea

Address

The Asia Foundation
7th Floor, YiYangWon Building
63-7 Gyeongun-dong, Jongno-gu
Seoul 110-310
Korea

Contact Information

If calling from South Korea:

Tel: 02 732 2044
Fax: 02 739 6022

If calling from overseas:

Tel: +82 2 732 2044
Fax: +82 2 739 6022

Website

http://www.asiafoundation.or.kr/e_home/index.php

Email

info@tafko.or.kr

Activities

The Asia Foundation recognizes human trafficking to be a cross-border issue that requires an international solution. The Foundation encourages Koreans to share their experiences and work with other governmental and non-governmental organizations to design collective actions to disrupt the complex networks and systems of trafficking in Asia.

In July 2005, the Foundation co-hosted an international conference on "Migrant Workers, Human Rights and the Media: Comparisons across Asia," where participants from China, India, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand, and Korea examined the relationship between public attitudes, government policies, and media coverage on Southeast Asian migrant workers in Northeast Asia.

In September 2005, the Foundation supported a symposium organized by the Korea Women's Associations United to evaluate Korea's anti-sex trafficking law and to provide wider comparative analysis from Australia, Japan, the Philippines and Sweden. The Foundation also co-organized a regional symposium with the Joint Committee for Migration and the Asia Migration Forum where representatives from 13 Asian countries discussed the issue of the feminization of migration and the growing problem of migrant women being trafficked in Asia.

Meetings:

“The First Asian Human Rights Forum on Child Labor and Trafficking in Asia” was held in 2006 to examine children’s human rights issues in Asia including the vulnerability of young girls to sexual exploitation.

Protection & Prevention of Human Trafficking in International Marriage (November 21-24, 2006)
International Strategy meeting to discuss migration, immigration law and regulation of international marriage
and provide better understanding of international marriages for principal sending and receiving Asian
countries. (Co-organized with the Korea Women Migrants Human Rights Center)