SARANGBANG Group for Human Rights

Human Rights Daily : 2 or 3 pages (A4 size) per day published, 5 days a week Delivered by fax, postal mail, e-mail and internet service Focuses on human rights issues that the mainstream media ignore. Human Rights Dail fulfills the role of grassroots media Human Rights Education : summer human rights camp for youth and children summer and winter human rights workshop for college students workshop for school teachers workshop for NGOs activists internship for Social Welfare majors Campaigns for the Rights of the Child monitoring for the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child development and creation of human rights education program and materials Human Rights Information and Resources Library : Thousands of collection of books, documents, reports and video tapes on human rights Copy service, postal mailing service and on-line research of catalogues available Open for anyone Civil and Political Rights Watch : Campaigns against police brutality, electric identity cards, compulsory fingerprint, censorship, and the National Security Law Fact finding and reporting on human rights abuses Prison condition monitoring Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Watch : Fact finding and reporting on the situation of irregular workers Study group on the ICESCR Monitoring for the implementation of the ICESCR Seoul Human Rights Film Festival(SHURIFF) : SHURIFF is held annually since 1996 SHURIFF's goals are human rights education and advocacy for the freedom of expression, so all films are shown free of charge to the public and SHURIFF rejects any censorship. SHURIFF screens excellent films in all genres related to human rights, both domestic and foreign. (Approxn 30 films) SHURIFF awards the most outstanding human rights film of the year by judging films from the perspective of human rights. The judges are recruited from the SHURIFF Advisory Committee and also from the human rights activists and film industry that can impartially judge this award. SHURIFF has established this award in 1999 to encourage and commend filmmakers who make films that deal with human rights in the midst of difficult production environment of Korea. This award has had especially good response from producers of independent documentaries. The Institute for Human Rights Movement : attachment organization daily seminar(6 days a week) on different subjects, such as history, law, human rights instruments, human rights news, etc