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2012.08.21 (23:51:52)

   

 (Affiliated to  LOCOA & International Alliance  of  Inhabitants(IAI)

 C/O “Aashray”, Plot No.09, GES  Sector-31, Vashi, Navi Mumbai-400703. Ph:09820392998, E-mail: pkanthony@rediffmail.com                                       

 


To                                                                                                                                                     21 August 2012

Mr Chung-Chang Young,

CEO, Korail 240 Jungang-ro, Dong-gu

Daejeon City, Korea 300-720

 

Dear Mr. Chung-Chang Young,

 

National Forum for Urban Poor(NFUP)is a non-political, secular and community based federation of more than 100 grass-root POs,  NGOs, CBOs  working for the betterment of urban poor on the issues of evictions & housing rights in different parts of India since 1979. NFUP is also affiliated to Asian Coalition for Housing Rights(ACHR), Leaders and Organisors of Community Organisations in Asia(LOCOA) and International Alliance of Inhabitants(IAI).

 

The regulation of forced eviction of homeless at Seoul station was enacted in 22nd August 2011 and it has been almost a year. The Seoul station used to close the door only for an hour for cleaning at the midnight, however homeless are now forbidden from entering Seoul station from 1:30am to 4:30am under the new regulation. A special private security team has been hired for this regulation and they have been evicting people who look like homeless not only at midnight but also day and night. The homeless have just as much of a right to use Seoul Station as everyone else as members of the public, but Korail deprived their rights and it is causing more social stigma of homelessness.

 

In fact we understand that Seoul Station has historically been used as a site to render services to the homeless such as after the economic crisis of 1997, when it was opened as a place of refuge, where the homeless could come for protection and to seek access to other sources of assistance. Moreover, the authorities are also citing concerns over security and terrorism as a pretext for denying access to the homeless at Seoul Station. Yet in reality, there is absolutely no evidence indicating that the homeless are terrorists.  It is therefore a discrimination to ban the homeless from Seoul Station. 

 

National Forum for Urban Poor(NFUP), India calls upon you to immediately withdraw and  roll-back Korail’s new  regulation from Seoul Station and ensure that a genuine public-private partnership mechanism involving the participation of civil society organizations together with Korail and the relevant government agencies is used to find a amicable and sustainable solution to the problems faced by homeless in and around Seoul Station that is acceptable to the homeless themselves.

 

Sincerely,

 

 

 

 

 

CopyTo:

 

  1. Mr. OH Se-hoon,   Mayor  of  Seoul, Korea 300-720.

2.       Mr. KWON Do-Youp,  Minister of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs, Korea 300-720.

3.       Dr. Lee Seo-hang, Consul General of repubilic of South Korea, Kanchanjunga Building, 9th floor, 72, Pedder Road,

Mumbai 400 026, India.

4.       Mr. Jeff Wong, Eviction Co-ordinator, LOCOA, Bangkok, Thailand.

 

 

 

인도의 도시빈민 전국 포럼은 1979, 인도의 철거와 주거권 문제에 대응하기 위해 만들어졌으며 100개가 넘는 풀뿌리 PO NGO, CBO들의 연합으로 만들어진 비정부단체입니다. NFUP 아시아주거권연합, 아시아주민운동네트워크, 국제거주민연맹의 회원 단체이기도 합니다.

 

서울역의 노숙인 강제 퇴거 조치는 2011 8 22일에 제정되었으며, 거의 일년에 다다르고 있습니다.서울역은 그간 심야 시간 동안 청소를 위해 문을 폐쇄하였으나, 노숙인들은 이제 새로운 규정에 따라 오전 1 30분에서 4 30분까지 퇴거 당하고 있습니다. 규정을 위해 고용된 특별 경비팀은 노숙인처럼 보이는 사람들을 심야 뿐만 아니라 , 밤을 가릴 없이 퇴거시키고 있습니다. 노숙인들은 대중의 구성원으로 다른 사람들과 같이 서울역을 사용할 수있는 권리가 있습니다. 그러나 코레일은 노숙인들의 권리를 박탈하고, 그들에게 더욱 사회적인 낙인을 야기하고 있습니다.

 

서울역은 역사적으로 빈민과 홈리스에게 서비스를 제공해주었던 장소라고 알고 있습니다. 예를 들면 1997 한국에서 있었던 경제위기 , 서울역은 홈리스들에게 피난처로서의 장소이자 그들이 보호를 받을 있고 지원을 얻을 있던 장소였습니다.

 그러나 지금 코레일은 홈리스들을 서울역으로부터 접근 하지 못하도록 테러위협으로 간주하고 있습니다. 이것은 서울역에서 홈리스를 없애기 위한 명백한 차별 입니다. 

 

인도의 전국도시빈민 포럼은 코레일에게 강제퇴거조치를 즉각 철회할 것을 요구합니다. 또한 시민사회조직과 코레일, 관련정부기관들이 연계하여 민관 파트너쉽을 구축하여 홈리스들을 위한  우호적이고  지속가능한 해결책을 제시하도록 요구합니다.

 

 
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