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In 1991, future Filipino Foreign Affairs Secretary Domingo L. Siazon, Jr. visited North Korea as a guest of President Kim Il Sung. [3]In 1998, as chair of the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), the Philippines initiated the process of admitting North Korea as a member of the forum but the latter had stated that Southeast Asian countries, such as Brunei and the Philippines, should first establish ...
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.
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 International Coalition to Stop Crimes Against Humanity in North Korea (ICNK) was formed on September 8, 2011.It comprises Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the International Federation for Human Rights and has support from over 40 organizations worldwide.
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 ...
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 ...
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield said human rights abuses in North Korea were "inextricably linked" to Pyongyang's threats to international peace and security.
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 ...