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The North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004 was originally sponsored by U.S. Senator Sam Brownback in response to "one of the worst human rights disasters in the world." According to the Department of United States, the Government of North Korea is "a dictatorship under the absolute rule of Kim Jong Il" that continues to commit numerous, serious ...
The North Korean Human Rights Act (NKHRA) [1] was passed on March 3, 2016, by the Seoul National Assembly in the Republic of Korea. The act sets clear guidelines for the protection and advancement of human rights for current and former North Korean citizens in accordance with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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 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 ...
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 ...
The U.N. Security Council will hold its first open meeting on North Korea’s dire human rights situation since 2017 next week, the United States announced Thursday. U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas ...
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
North Korea hurled misogynistic insults Wednesday at a newly confirmed United States special envoy to monitor the country’s human rights issues and warned of unspecified security consequences if ...