UN Labor Agency Candidate Sees Room to Talk to China About Forced Labor
- South Korea’s first female foreign minister says in interview
- If elected, Kang would be first woman to be ILO leader
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The first woman to serve as South Korea’s foreign minister says there’s room for the United Nations’ workers’ rights agency to talk to China about its suspected use of forced labor, as Seoul seeks to have her lead the global organization.
Kang Kyung-wha told Bloomberg Television that “forced labor is fundamentally antithetical” to all that the International Labor Organization stands for. She is one of five candidates for the post of director general at the agency, and if selected, would be the first woman and the first Asian to assume the role at the ILO.