Democratic People's Republic of Korea

• Annual Reports 69

• Abduction 3
• Access to procedures 1
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 22
• Asylum-seekers 1
• Border controls 1
• Buddhist 8
• Catholic 8
• Child labour 5
• Child prostitution 4
• Children's rights 18
• Children-at-risk 13
• Christian 9
• Contemporary forms of slavery 1
• Corruption 2
• Crimes against humanity 1
• Criminal justice 6
• Democracy 2
• Deportation / Forcible return 1
• Disappeared persons 20
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 14
• Economic, social and cultural rights 13
• Effective protection 1
• Effective remedy 1
• Elections 4
• Evangelical 1
• Extrajudicial executions 19
• Forced labour 27
• Forced marriage 5
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 17
• Freedom of assembly and association 22
• Freedom of expression 20
• Freedom of information 8
• Freedom of movement 20
• Freedom of religion 36
• Freedom of speech 20
• Gender discrimination 15
• Gender-based persecution 1
• Gross, systematic and large-scale 1
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 15
• Human rights monitors 3
• Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 2
• Immigration Detention 1
• Impunity 3
• Independence of judiciary 5
• International protection 2
• Japanese 1
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 1
• Minorities 5
• Orthodox Christian 8
• Persecution based on political opinion 9
• Persecution of family members 6
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 2
• Persons with disabilities 5
• Police 4
• Presbyterian 8
• Prison or detention conditions 9
• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 8
• Protestant 8
• Refugees 6
• Religious discrimination 20
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 14
• Return conditions 1
• Returnees 4
• Right to self-determination 4
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 4
• SGBV 14
• Security forces 4
• Smuggling of persons 3
• Social group discrimination 13
• Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 4
• Terrorism 18
• Threats / Intimidation 2
• Torture 4
• Trafficking in persons 35
• Unification Church 2
• Women's rights 17
• Women-at-risk 13

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• Amnesty International - North Korea
• Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)
• Committee for Human Rights in North Korea
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Democratic People's Republic of Korea
• Human Rights Watch (HRW) - North Korea
• International Committee of the Red Cross - The ICRC regional delegation in Beijing
• International Crisis Group (ICG) - North Korea
• Life Funds for North Korean Refugees
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) - Democratic People's Republic of Korea
• Radio Free Asia (RFA) - Korea
• ReliefWeb - Democratic People's Republic of Korea (the)
• UNHCR - Democratic People's Republic of Korea
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - Korea, Democratic People's Republic of
• United States Department of State - North Korea
• United States Department of State: Congressional Research Service Reports (CRS) and Issue Briefs
• World Food Programme (WFP) - Korea, Democratic People's Republic (DPRK)
• World Health Organization (WHO) - Democratic People's Republic of Korea