In April 2024, the U.N. Human Rights Council, with European Union leadership and South Korea’s support, adopted a resolution boosting scrutiny of North Korea's rights record and highlighting the ...

South Korea’s new government should adopt measures to address human rights problems in the country and abroad.

South Korea's Deputy Ambassador to the U.N. Kim Sang-jin urged Pyongyang to heed the General Assembly's concerns over the human rights situation in the reclusive state and its calls for improvement.

Activists, officials and defectors highlighted human rights violations in North Korea at a high-level meeting of the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday, with many directly tying Pyongyang's ...

The council was last publicly briefed on the issue on August 17, 2023, by U.N. Human Rights chief Volker Türk, who said that many of the severe and widespread rights violations in North Korea are ...

South Korea and other governments should urgently present a U.N. General Assembly resolution that creates a new monitoring and reporting body on North Korea, integrating human rights and ...

The envoy on North Korean human rights issues, Julie Turner, visited Seoul and Tokyo in February to discuss North Korea. An annual report this week by the State Department described “significant ...

Despite U.S. legislation reauthorizing the North Korea Human Rights Act in June 2018, then-President Donald Trump never nominated a special envoy for North Korean human rights issues.

SEOUL — North Korea accused the US on Saturday (April 27) of politicising human rights in the East Asian country, denouncing what it called political provocation and conspiracy.

"The so-called human rights issue cannot exist in our country." The resolution will be sent to a full General Assembly session for approval in December. The committee has adopted the resolution ...

SEOUL, April 27 (Reuters) - North Korea accused the United States on Saturday of politicizing human rights in the East Asian country, denouncing what it called political provocation and conspiracy.