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SOLIDARITY MESSAGE by StreetNet International:

We send the warmest message of congratulations and solidarity to the Korean Street Vendors' Confederation (KOSC) on its 21st Anniversary Rally and Congress on the 13th June, 2008.

Street vendors in South Korea have been sending a clear message to the government that the right to earn a living is a right that should be recognised. There must be a halt to the harassment and intimidation that accompanies the economic injustices that comes from seeing informal economy workers as a short-term problem that can be "cleaned' from the street.

StreetNet calls on the S.K. government to engage with street vendors in social dialogue and to stop the practice of forced evictions without finding alternatives for them.

Street vendors, as much as other workers, deserve to earn a living with dignity in order to put food on the table to feed their families.

StreetNet Int'l
2008.6.10