Democratic People's Republic of Korea

• Annual Reports 221
• Commentaries 1
• Comments on Concluding Observations 2
• Concluding Observations 5
• Country Briefing Folders 1
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• Speeches/Statements 6
• States Parties Reports 12

• Abduction 33
• Access to procedures 6
• Access to water 3
• Aliens 1
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• Armed forces / Military 37
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 24
• Asylum-seekers 23
• Baha'i 1
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• Border conflict 30
• Border controls 10
• Border crossers 12
• Buddhist 21
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• Ceasefire 9
• Child labour 7
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• Children's rights 44
• Children-at-risk 23
• Chinese 2
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• Citizenship / Nationality law 2
• Civil and political rights 9
• Civil war 3
• Combatants / Former combatants 2
• Communal conflict / Social conflict 9
• Conflict prevention 1
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• Conflict situation 5
• Contemporary forms of slavery 3
• Copts 1
• Corruption 13
• Country of origin information (COI) 3
• Coup d'état 1
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• Crimes against humanity 25
• Criminal justice 14
• Death in custody 1
• Death penalty 59
• Demobilization / Disarmament 6
• Democracy 4
• Deportation / Forcible return 22
• Disappeared persons 41
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 19
• Domestic violence 2
• Drug trafficking 2
• Economic, social and cultural rights 25
• Effective protection 1
• Effective remedy 4
• Elections 36
• Entry / Exit 1
• Equal opportunities 1
• Evacuation 2
• Evangelical 1
• Expulsion 1
• Extrajudicial executions 25
• Extreme poverty 3
• False documents 3
• Falun Gong 1
• Family reunification 1
• Female genital mutilation (FGM) 2
• Flight by land, air or sea 1
• Forced labour 63
• Forced marriage 10
• Forced relocation 1
• Forced sterilization / Abortion 2
• Foreign occupation 3
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 46
• Freedom of assembly and association 50
• Freedom of conscience 3
• Freedom of expression 156
• Freedom of information 92
• Freedom of movement 48
• Freedom of religion 77
• Freedom of speech 49
• Gender discrimination 19
• Gender-based persecution 2
• Genocide 1
• Good governance 7
• Gross, systematic and large-scale 10
• HIV and AIDS 1
• Honour killings 1
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 2
• Human Rights Council 13
• Human rights activists 13
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 109
• Human rights law 1
• Human rights monitors 24
• Humanitarian assistance 19
• Illegal entry 1
• Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 6
• Immigration Detention 6
• Immigration control after entry 2
• Immigration law 1
• Impunity 6
• Independence of judiciary 12
• Indigenous persons 2
• Integration 2
• Internal armed conflict 16
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 7
• International armed conflict 15
• International courts and tribunals 7
• International criminal law 4
• International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 4
• International protection 2
• Involuntary repatriation 2
• Japanese 3
• Jehovah's Witness 1
• Kachin 1
• Koreans 13
• Kurd 5
• Labour law 1
• Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 1
• Legal representation / Legal aid 1
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 19
• Livelihoods 1
• Mass exodus 1
• Medical screening 1
• Migrant rights 5
• Migrants 11
• Military operations 29
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 5
• Minorities 14
• Minority rights 3
• Multiple nationality 1
• Muslim 22
• Non-refoulement 7
• Older persons 1
• One-child policy / Family planning 2
• Opposition 7
• Orthodox Christian 14
• Palestinian 8
• Passports 3
• Peace agreements 15
• Peace process 19
• Peacekeeping 12
• Persecution based on political opinion 28
• Persecution of family members 8
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 12
• Persons not in need of international protection 2
• Persons with disabilities 13
• Police 11
• Political asylum 2
• Political groups 4
• Political parties 9
• Political situation 47
• Polygamy 2
• Pre-trial detention 2
• Presbyterian 8
• Prison or detention conditions 36
• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 12
• Protection of civilian persons in time of war 3
• Protestant 11
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 11
• Public health 7
• Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 3
• Reconciliation 1
• Referendum 4
• Refoulement 5
• Refugee / Asylum law 2
• Refugee identity documents 2
• Refugee travel documents / CTDs 2
• Refugees 44
• Refugees sur place 2
• Rejected asylum-seekers 1
• Rejection at border 1
• Religious discrimination 33
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 27
• Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 1
• Resettlement 2
• Residence permits / Residency 8
• Return conditions 1
• Returnees 6
• Right to a nationality 1
• Right to development 1
• Right to education 7
• Right to employment 7
• Right to food 62
• Right to health 7
• Right to justice 4
• Right to liberty and security 2
• Right to life 7
• Right to seek asylum 6
• Right to self-determination 5
• Rights of non-citizens 2
• Rohingya (Arakanese) 2
• Roma 3
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 18
• SGBV 21
• Safe country of origin 2
• Salafi 2
• Sanctions 21
• Security forces 13
• Security situation 52
• Sexual and reproductive rights 3
• Shamanism 3
• Shia 6
• Small arms 1
• Smuggling of persons 4
• Social group discrimination 14
• Somalis 1
• State of emergency 2
• Sunni 3
• Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 4
• Tamil 1
• Tatars 2
• Terrorism 50
• Threats / Intimidation 3
• Torture 23
• Trafficking in persons 45
• Transit 1
• Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 3
• Travel documents 3
• Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 4
• Uighur 10
• Unaccompanied / Separated children 2
• Unification Church 2
• Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 9
• Unlawful departure 1
• Visas 1
• Voluntary repatriation 1
• War crimes 2
• Women's rights 32
• Women-at-risk 13
• Work permits 1
• Yazīdī 2

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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