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Article: S. Korea's migrant women troubled by international marriage brokers: UN investigator.
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- YON - Yonhap News Agency of Korea
- Article date:
- December 12, 2006
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SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Yonhap) -- A special U.N. investigator said Monday that cross-border brokers present challenges to South Korea's effort to create a more reasonable system of international marriages involving Korean men and migrant women.Jorge Bustamente, who serves as U.N. special rapporteur on human rights of migrants, also indicated he will address the issue in next year's U.N. General Assembly. "There are a number of problems remaining with the international system of marriage, in terms of the role of the brokers," Bustamente told a news conference in Seoul.Bustamente, in South Korea on a seven-day fact-finding mission, said migrant women, in particular, are ...