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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.
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 ...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Koreans working in hundreds of thriving markets that sprung up with the failure of the country's public system for distributing basic goods are often abused and ...
The United Nations Security Council will meet publicly to discuss human rights abuses in North Korea next week, a move requested by the United States, Albania and Japan that is likely to anger ...
China and Russia argue that the Geneva-based U.N. Human Rights Council is the appropriate venue for discussions on human rights. China, Russia fail to stop UN meeting on North Korea rights abuses ...
Between 2014 and 2017 the council held annual public meetings on human rights abuses in North Korea. A landmark 2014 U.N. report on North Korean human rights concluded that North Korean security ...
National Association for the Rescue of Japanese Kidnapped by North Korea; Network for North Korean Democracy and Human Rights; North Korea Strategy Center; North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004; North Korean Human Rights Act of 2016; North Korean migrant workers; North Korean People's Liberation Front