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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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Video: North Korea: The Human Rights and Security Nexus, a conference commemorating the second anniversary of the publication COI report; The Commission's Public Hearings (Programs, Videos, Transcripts) North Korea's rebuttal report on its human rights record Archived 2015-06-29 at the Wayback Machine (Archived here, here, and here
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 ...