North Korean defectors spoke at a United Nations event to expose human rights violations and to advocate for a strengthened U.N. mandate to investigate and document them.

Scholars and policy officials gathered at Monday’s conference criticized human rights abuses in North Korea, citing malnourishment of citizens and forced labor camps. Researchers also proposed ...

Miss Park suggested that North Korea’s human rights violation is no longer an issue only between North Korea and the Korean Peninsula, but instead has become a global issue that international ...

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 ...

The U.N. General Assembly recommended that the U.N. Security Council refer the multiple violations of human rights in North Korea by the regime to the International Criminal Court.

January 8 celebrations planned for the 33rd birthday of North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-Un, only spotlight the daily reality of terrible human rights abuses North Koreans face. The annual ...

On December 11, 2017, for the fourth consecutive year, the UN Security Council discussed North Korea’s egregious human rights violations as part of its formal agenda, addressing the widespread ...

North Korea routinely denounces any criticism of its human rights record, most recently a statement by the UN secretary general, Antonio Guterres, calling on North Korea to “investigate, prosecute and ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — North Korea's leadership has cracked down further on human rights as tensions have escalated over its nuclear and missile tests, including beefing up restrictions on ...

Additionally, a February 2014 UN Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in North Korea report states: “The gravity, scale and nature of these violations reveal a State that does not have any ...

President Trump said Tuesday that human rights abuses happen in “a lot of places” when asked if he would reverse his previous criticism of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s government. “I ...

ON TUESDAY at the United Nations, an official from North Korea said something that perked up ears. Choe Myong-nam, a Foreign Ministry official in charge of U.N. affairs and human rights issues ...