정보경찰폐지넷, 국회에 정보경찰 폐지 의견 전달

– 경찰법, 경직법 개정안에 대한 의견서 제출

– 불명확한 ‘치안정보’ 개념 삭제해야

1.정보경찰 폐지를 위해 지난 9월 30일 결성된 정보경찰폐지인권시민사회단체네트워크(이하 정보경찰폐지넷)는 오늘(10/22) 홍익표, 소병훈, 조응천 의원이 각각 대표발의한 경찰법과 경찰관직무집행법(이하 경직법) 일부개정안에 반대하는 의견서를 국회 행정안전위원회 위원들에게 제출했다. 이들 개정안은 경찰의 정보활동의 근거가 되어 왔던 경찰법 제3조 제4호 및 경직법 제2조 제4호 ‘치안정보의 수집·작성 및 배포’에서 치안정보의 개념을 변경하거나, 경찰의 정치활동을 금지하는 등의 내용을 담고 있다. 정보경찰폐지넷은 정보경찰을 존치시키고, 경찰의 정보활동을 제한하는 것에 초점이 맞춰진 이들 개정안으로는 경찰의 정보활동의 폐단을 막기 어렵다며 치안정보 개념을 삭제해 정보경찰을 폐지해야 한다고 밝혔다.

2.정보경찰폐지넷은 소병훈 의원 대표발의안의 경우, 치안정보를 공공안녕에 대한 위험의 예방 및 대응을 위한 정보’ 로 개념을 바꾸었으나 여전히 추상적이고 불명확하여 정보수집의 대상이나 범위가 어디까지인지 알기 어렵다고 지적하고, 경직법 개정안에서 경찰관이 수집·작성·배포 등을 하는 정보의 범위 및 처리 기준을 대통령령으로 위임한 것은 포괄위임 금지 원칙을 위반한 것이라고 비판했다. 조응천 의원의 경직법 대표발의안에 대해서는 경찰이 정치활동에 관여하는 것을 금지한 것은 유의미하나, 경찰의 직무범위로 치안정보의 수집 등의 권한을 그대로 유지시키고 있는 것은 문제라고 지적했다.

3.정보경찰폐지넷은 정보경찰이 광범위한 사찰행위를 통해 국민의 인권을 침해해왔고, 정권의 통치수단으로 활용될 정보를 수집하는 반민주적인 행태를 보여 왔다며 경찰 정보활동의 근거조항을 삭제해 정보경찰을 폐지해야 한다고 밝혔다. 끝
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191024_의견서_정보경찰 관련 경찰법 및 경찰관직무집행법 개정안

On December 8 2022, in partnership with the Permanent Mission of Mongolia to the United Nations, the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC) organised a roundtable discussion titled Building and Sustaining Peace at the Regional Level: The Network Approach to Regional Coordination in Northeast Asia during an advocacy visit of Ulaanbaatar Process participants to New York City.

This discussion was an informal dialogue to share the learning from the Ulaanbaatar Process with global peacebuilding policy experts within the United Nations, Member States and regional organisations. The conversation outlined critical avenues to support regional peacebuilding coordination in policy and shared practical experiences for practical action. The discussion also outlined persistent challenges of regional peacebuilding coordination, and discussed recommendations to develop solutions to strengthen peacebuilding work in Northeast Asia.

During the roundtable, remarks were shared by Ulziibayar Vangansuren, Permanent Mission of Mongolia to the United Nations; Ambassador Enkhsaikhan Jargalsaikhan, Chair of NGO Blue Banner and former Mongolian Permanent Representative to the UN; Sonja Bachmann, Teamleader Northeast Asia and Pacific, UN Department of Peacebuilding Political Affairs (DPPA); Kajita Natsuha, learning designer and facilitator; Kim Jeongsoo, Standing Representative, Women Making Peace and Hwang Sooyoung, Manager, Centers for Peace and Disarmament and for International Solidarity, People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy (PSPD).

Based on the experiences from Northeast Asia, the following key elements build an effective regional peacebuilding architecture:

• Multi-stakeholder coordination is required and must be based on complementarity among partners.
• The network approach to peacebuilding must be at the core of regional coordination.
• Inclusivity is key for effective regional peacebuilding networks.

The following recommendations have thus been identified for the strengthening of the regional peacebuilding mechanisms:  

• The UN should take a more active convening role to bring together regional actors, the UN, national governments, and civil society, among others, to coordinate actions better and ensure a stronger impact of peacebuilding activities.  Where regional peacebuilding networks play an essential role in building the foundation for regional dialogue, the UN should provide technical and political accompaniment to ensure the commitment to action. 

• Improved funding mechanisms are needed to support the civil society organizations’ network approach. A network approach creates empowering and equitable spaces for exchanging expertise for more impactful and informed action, sharing resources and access points at various levels, and enabling and supporting communities committed to peace. Donors should reflect on how to improve funding mechanisms to support better civil society organizations engaged in regional peacebuilding networks, allowing them, through effective funding, to fill the gaps in the regional peacebuilding infrastructure. It is crucial to ensure that all regions are fairly represented in the international discussion on peacebuilding and are given international attention, as this also impacts funding availability. 

• The inclusion of women and youth is key in regional peacebuilding networks and should be supported. Although women are strongly affected by conflicts, they are often excluded from negotiations and peace processes, especially in highly patriarchal contexts. The inclusion of local women within peacebuilding initiatives is essential to ensure that their unique perspectives can have a real impact at the decision-making level. Likewise, the meaningful participation of young people in dialogue on equal terms is essential to achieve and sustain peace. Young people in all their diversities should be considered as drivers for change, and their contributions should be held as relevant and valuable. Donors should prioritise supporting regional peacebuilding dialogues that ensure the meaningful participation of women and youth at all stages of the process.  The UN and its Member States should use their influence and international platforms to  ensure that the unique perspectives of local women and youth peacebuilders are heard and taken into account in the decision-making processes.

This is an article for Global Partnership for the prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC) Northeast Asia News, Jan 2023

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지속가능개발을 앞당기기 위한 지난 10 년간의 촉진과 변화시키는 과정, 행동, 실천, 그리고 코로나-19 긴급현안 대응

“Accelerated action and transformative pathways: realizing the decade of action and delivery for sustainable development” and the current concerns regarding “COVID-19”

오는 7월 7-16일로 예정된  고위급정치포럼(HLPF 2020) 및 7월 14-16일 고위급분과토론(HLS 2020)를 앞두고, 위 주제에 대해 유엔 경제사회이사회에 경실련의 입장을 아래와 같이 각각 전달하였습니다.

200426 [Written Statement] by CCEJ, A New Vision for the Future in Our Society

200427 [Oral Statement] Remarks by CCEJ, Stop it!—the Methods of an Infodemic

【HLPF 2020 서면 성명】

Written Statement
before
ECOSOC High-Level Segment & Political Forum in 2020

A New Vision for the Future in Our Society

Citizens’ Coalition for Economic Justice [i]
Republic of Korea

April 26, 2020

The last year fell on our 30th Anniversary, and we looked back on our historic movements over the last decades. Of significant importance to democratic and socioeconomic transformation with sustainable development in Korean society, have been three key factors: (a) Housing Price Reform: the alleviation of housing bubbles between stated value and real price; (b) Chaebol Reform: the breakup of the corporatocratic structure; and (c) Manifesto Movement by monitoring the governmental activities and evaluating their performance. These are really something many Koreans thought we’re supposed to do.

However, nothing has changed. In retrospect, the last 10 years saw political tensions and upheavals successively in our society. Such a radical change in all the state affairs of security, diplomacy, economy, society and industry, etc. has been bringing about a new order and related problems—such as the “False” industrial revolution—that cannot be resolved by traditional theories any longer and that cannot help being a real challenge for us to achieve sustainable development and economic justice. Such a road-to-Damascus conversion—“Digital” conversion—was dashed by big business and governments that maintained the status quo in the population aging and decline, in low growth and polarization, more and more. And such a socioeconomic inequality becomes fixed now, and forever. For unless we break it through this status quo, we won’t survive any longer.

Now then, we suggest you set a new vision for the future in our society on the ground of our empiricism, a new mission statement that is fixed to achieve the following six goals including twenty-two detailed targets (with over ninety methods):

A. Fair Economy

A-1.  Establish a fair market with economic orders (six methods);
A-2.  Promote innovation for inclusive growth (nine methods);
A-3.  Earn economic esteem on decent work (four methods);
A-4.  Reestablish the governmental role to realize a fair economy (four methods).

B. Social Justice

B-1.  Eradicate windfall profits out of the housing speculation (three methods);
B-2.  Establish justice and taxation (three methods);
B-3.  Reform structural corruption (three methods).

C. Community Well-being

C-1.  Secure social welfare based on the full-scale budget and fiscal soundness (three methods);
C-2.  Reinforce housing welfare (three methods).

D. Social Inclusion

D-1.  Do technological innovation for the human being (seven methods);
D-2.  Close the socioeconomic achievement gap in education (four methods);
D-3.  Realize the society without hate and discrimination (three methods);
D-4.  Narrow the development gap between local areas (three methods).

E. Democratic Communitarianism

E-1.  Reform politics and the judiciary (five methods);
E-2.  Reform the government (two methods);
E-3.  Strengthen local autonomy with decentralization (five methods);
E-4.  Strengthen CSO partnership with citizen participation (Drafts).

F. Community Peace-building

F-1.  Develop sustainable inter-Korean relations, denuclearize the Korean Peninsula and build peace regimes (six methods);
F-2.  Building a new system of peaceful coöperation in Northeast Asia (six methods);
F-3.  Toughen safeguards system (seven methods);
F-4.  Cope with disasters, climate change and environmental destruction (two methods);
F-5.  Protect food security and sustainable agriculture (three methods).

【HLS 2020 구두 성명】

Oral Statement
before
ECOSOC High-Level Segment & Political Forum in 2020

Stop it!—the Methods of an Infodemic

Citizens’ Coalition for Economic Justice  [i]
Republic of Korea

April 27, 2020

“A moldering stone façade is still lépreuse.” Have you ever heard this word? That meant, nothing is more punitive than to give a disease a meaning. Any important disease, COVID-19, whose causality is murky, without hope, without despair, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance. The one thing, the subjects of deepest dread—corruption, decay, pollution, anomie, weakness—could come over to us as an infodemic crisis. The infodemic itself might be another pandemic. In the name of “witch-hunting,” that horror but terror with prejudice and discrimination would be imposed on other people. This disease become[-s] witch-hunting, ugly-disgusting stigmatization. “It’s said to be an Adjectival disease-like,” Susan Sontag said.

In this regard, the cardinal fact upon witch-hunting with the whole blame of mass is that this stigmatization is the nature of an infodemic on today’s crisis—Jesus Christ!

So, out of the crisis, WE are NOT fighting with Asian “foes” whom we are to thrash and overcome and vanquish and punish, and then abandon them. They are to be our neighbors—NAY, they are to be our fellow-citizens. Whatever be their faults, whatever be their incidents or coincidences then and now against us, if we are to stay in our hometown at all, they also will be here; and not only so, but they are indistinguishable from the great majority of our citizens around the world.

Now anyone who rightly appreciates these facts, what will they said are to be our public enemies in the pandemic crisis which we have undertaken in Wuhan nor our hometown?

The first ought to be to impose upon our Asianphobes without racial prejudice and any discrimination. But the second is to impress upon them our ultimate and essential friendliness towards them.

             All the best. Thank you for all the medical teams.

[i] Both statements were contributed by Hochul M. Jung ([email protected]) to the United Nations Economic and Social Council for discussion in the 2020 High-Level Segment (HLS) and Political Forum (HLPF) on Sustainable Development and with respect to the theme: “Accelerated action and transformative pathways: realizing the decade of action and delivery for sustainable development.” The written statement referred to the CCEJ’s visionary statement for Korean society from 2020 to 2030. And the particular theme: the current concerns about COVID-19. You can see this information: http://sdg.iisd.org/news/hlpf-2020-to-focus-on-accelerated-action-transformative-pathways/

If you need more information:
■ Please, visit us: http://ccej.or.kr/eng/who-we-are/about-us/;
■ Refer to our Achievements (RLA, 2003): http://www.rightlivelihoodaward.org/laureates/citizens-coalition-for-economic-justice-ccej/

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https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/hlpf/2020

200426 [Written Statement] by CCEJ, A New Vision for the Future in Our Society

200427 [Oral Statement] Remarks by CCEJ, Stop it!—the Methods of an Infodemic

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