South Korea to back U.N. resolution condemning North Korea rights abuses

South Korea will again co-sponsor a United Nations resolution condemning North Korea's human rights violations, a document ...

South Korea to maintain backing for UN resolution on North Korea human rights

By Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea will co-sponsor an annual U.N. resolution that raises concerns over North Korea's ...
The Japan Times

U.N. adds 12 more Japanese people to North Korea abduction list

Earlier this month, the working group told the Tokyo-based commission that the 12 people not officially recognized would be ...
Opinion

Regime fears the truth: how HRNK gives world Its most powerful weapon against North Korea

The U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea has become one of the most credible institutions documenting the human rights situation there.
Yahoo

North Korean human rights a global issue, speakers tell U.N. General Assembly

North Korean escapee Kim Eun-joo spoke at a high-level U.N. General Assembly meeting on North Korean human rights Tuesday, warning that "silence is complicity." Screenshot/UN Web TV May 21 (UPI) ...

Seoul’s backing of UN resolution on North Korea’s rights abuses tests limits of dialogue push

Lee Jae-myung’s liberal government defies expectations of a retreat, in a move likely to trigger an angry reaction from ...
CounterPunch

North Korea’s Window on the World is Closing

Security experts, United Nations officials, and congressional leaders have for years insisted that in dealing with North Korea, its government’s systemic human rights abuses need to be addressed ...
Jurist

UN reports North Korea human rights worsened over past decade

North Korea’s human rights situation has deteriorated over the past decade, with capital punishment broadened and increasingly enforced for offenses such as distributing foreign media, according to a ...
Newsday

North Korean defectors urge the UN to hold the country's leader accountable for rights abuses

UNITED NATIONS — Eunju Kim, who escaped starvation in North Korea in 1999, was sent back from China and fled a second time, told the United Nations on Tuesday that the country’s leader must be held ...
The Atlantic

UN: North Korea's Human Rights Abuses Have 'No Parallel'

The United Nations wants to remind everyone that while the world was busy worrying about North Korea's terrible nuclear missiles they were ignoring North Korea's even more terrible human rights abuses ...