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United Nations General Assembly Resolution 62/167, titled "Situation of Human Rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea", is a resolution of the United Nations General Assembly about the situation in North Korea, which was adopted on December 18, 2007 at the 62nd session of the General Assembly.
With mounting evidence of human rights abuses in North Korea documented by NGOs and governments during the preceding three decades, since 2003 the UN General Assembly [21] and the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) [22] [23] [24] have repeatedly passed resolutions expressing their concerns about the violations of human rights in North Korea. [5] [25 ...
The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK), formerly known as the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, is a Washington, D.C.-based non-governmental research organization that "seeks to raise awareness about conditions in North Korea and to publish research that focuses the world's attention on human rights abuses in that country."
The Database Center for North Korean Human Rights (NKDB; South Korea-based nonprofit founded in 2003) [25] [26] [27] specializes in collecting and analyzing and maintaining a database of human rights abuses, which as of 2017 included the accounts of over 40,000 individuals and 60,000 cases of human rights violations.
[4] [5] In order to achieve this, the ICNK worked to raise public understanding and awareness of the human rights situation in North Korea. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ better source needed ] In 2013 the UN Human Rights Council did establish the Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the DPRK with resolution 22/13, [ 8 ] with a landmark report published in ...
The Database Center for North Korean Human Rights (commonly referred to as NKDB) is a nonprofit, non-governmental organization, headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, that conducts data collection, analysis, and monitoring of human rights violations experienced in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK, or North Korea). NKDB not only ...
Foreign relations of North Korea; Human rights in North Korea; Korea and the United Nations; North Korea and weapons of mass destruction; Report of the Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea; United Nations General Assembly resolutions – including those related to the Korean War
Human-rights discourse in North Korea has a history that predates the establishment of the state in 1948. Based on Marxist theory, Confucian tradition, and the Juche idea, North Korean human-rights theory regards rights as conditional rather than universal, holds that collective rights take priority over individual rights, and that welfare and subsistence rights are important.