After removing his name from last year’s statement, Ahn Chang-ho appears to have done a 180 on the issue only a month out from a special review by GANHRI
2025-09-29
Marking International Safe Abortion Day on Sunday, Ahn Chang-ho, the head of South Korea’s human rights watchdog, issued a statement saying that Korea can “no longer neglect the legislative vacuum regarding guarantees for the right to a safe abortion.”
The statement called for guarantees for abortion rights and for the country to make abortion pills available. But only a year earlier, Ahn called for his name to be removed from a press release making similar demands, raising suspicions about his sudden about-face.
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