A U.N. committee adopted a resolution condemning North Korea's human rights violations, Seoul said Thursday, with 61 ...

A report recently emerged that the government is considering a plan to scrap the establishment of the National Center for ...

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) ...

A U.N. committee has adopted by consensus a resolution condemning widespread human rights violations in North Korea, the ...

Former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday lauded South Korea's co-sponsorship of this year's U.N. resolution ...

(Geneva) – The North Korean government should urgently act on the recommendations from United Nations member states during the fourth Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of North Korea’s human rights ...

Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to assess the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) implementation of selected Universal Periodic Review (UPR) recommendations from the third (2019 ...

Oct. 1 (UPI) --North Korea remains one of the world's most repressive regimes, systematically violating the rights of its 26 million people. For decades, U.S. and allied policy has focused primarily ...

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 ...

At a crucial time in North Korea’s political climate and humanitarian crisis, Jung-Hoon Lee, the South Korean Ambassador for North Korean Human Rights, and Yosep Paek, North Korean refugee, spoke to ...

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 ...