GENEVA (25 March 2022) - Access to food, water, sanitation, medicine, vaccines, and other necessary goods and services for maintenance of critical infrastructure and survival of the population should...

Korean version GENEVA (11 August 2017) – A United Nations human rights expert has welcomed the release of Canadian Pastor Hyeon Soo Lim, who had been detained in North Korea since February 2015. 　 “I...

President, High Commissioner, Distinguished members of the Human Rights Council, Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen, Last century, the world was faced with the Nazi ideology that sought to relegate...

GENEVA (18 February 2014) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Tuesday welcomed the report of the independent UN Commission of Inquiry on human rights in the Democratic People’s...

GENEVA (17 February 2014) – A wide array of crimes against humanity, arising from “policies established at the highest level of State,” have been committed and continue to take place in the Democratic...

GENEVA (11 February 2014) – The United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) will hold a press conference on Monday 17 February, at 14:00...

UN Commission on Inquiry on Human Rights in the DPRK wraps up Global Tour of public hearings Washington, D.C., 1 November 2013 -- Victims of human rights violations in North Korea now residing in the...

MEDIA ADVISORY 28 October 2013 PUBLIC HEARINGS : The UN-mandated commission investigating the human rights situation in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) will hold public hearings on...

Conclude London Visit; travel to New York then Washington DC next week London, 25 October 2013 -- Former prisoners, military officers and a human trafficking victim shared shocking testimony with a...

UN Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea 21 October 2013 PUBLIC HEARINGS : The UN-mandated commission investigating the human rights situation in the...