Rights
About North Korean workers who recently occupied a factory last month to protest over unpaid wages took a monitoring officer hostage, media reports said. more
China's dark shadow: Forced repatriation of North Korean escapees sparks international outcry
In a recent meeting between South Korea's Foreign Minister, Park Jin, and the U.S. Special Envoy for North Korean Human Rights Issues, Julie Turner, a veiled warning was issued to Chi ...
‘Increasing militarisation’ of DPR Korea fuelling rise in human rights violations
Continuing ‘severe, widespread and long-standing” violations against citizens of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) by their own Government, must not be vi ...
COVID contributed to ‘starvation’, executions in DPR Korea, Rights Council hears
Disturbing reports have emerged from North Korea - officially known as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) - that people have starved or been executed because of COVID- ...
Human rights report details ‘heartbreaking’ accounts of women detained in DPRK
New York: Women forcibly returned to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) are subjected to torture, ill treatment, sexual abuse, and other violations, according to a rep ...
