Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Abduction 43
Access to procedures 7
Access to water 3
Adoption 1
Aliens 1
Anglican 1
Anti-terrorism law 1
Arbitrary arrest and detention 51
Armed attacks on camps 2
Armed forces / Military 42
Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 26
Asylum policy 4
Asylum-migration nexus 1
Asylum-seekers 29
Baha'i 1
Baptist 1
Border conflict 31
Border controls 11
Border crossers 12
Buddhist 21
Catholic 11
Ceasefire 9
Child labour 9
Child prostitution 7
Child soldiers 6
Children's rights 51
Children-at-risk 28
Chinese 3
Christian 46
Citizenship / Nationality law 7
Civil and political rights 15
Civil war 5
Climate change (including environmental migrants) 1
Combatants / Former combatants 2
Communal conflict / Social conflict 9
Complementary forms of protection 1
Conflict prevention 2
Conflict resolution 3
Conflict situation 6
Constitutional law 2
Contemporary forms of slavery 3
Copts 1
Corruption 17
Country of origin information (COI) 3
Coup d'état 1
Crimean Tatars 2
Crimes against humanity 32
Criminal justice 14
Cumulative grounds of persecution 1
Death in custody 2
Death penalty 68
Demobilization / Disarmament 7
Democracy 6
Deportation / Forcible return 27
Disappeared persons 48
Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 21
Domestic violence 3
Drug trafficking 2
Economic, social and cultural rights 33
Effective protection 2
Effective remedy 5
Elections 40
Emigrants 1
Entry / Exit 1
Equal opportunities 1
Evacuation 2
Evangelical 1
Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 1
Exiles 1
Expulsion 1
Extradition 1
Extrajudicial executions 28
Extreme poverty 3
False documents 4
Falun Gong 1
Family reunification 1
Female genital mutilation (FGM) 2
Flight by land, air or sea 1
Forced labour 77
Forced marriage 10
Forced relocation 1
Forced sterilization / Abortion 2
Foreign occupation 3
Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 53
Freedom of assembly and association 57
Freedom of conscience 4
Freedom of expression 169
Freedom of information 101
Freedom of movement 55
Freedom of religion 81
Freedom of speech 52
Gender discrimination 22
Gender-based persecution 3
Genocide 1
Good governance 7
Gross, systematic and large-scale 11
HIV and AIDS 2
Honour killings 1
Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 2
Human Rights Council 19
Human rights activists 13
Human rights and fundamental freedoms 136
Human rights law 1
Human rights monitors 30
Humanitarian assistance 25
Illegal entry 1
Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 7
Immigration Detention 6
Immigration control after entry 2
Immigration law 2
Impunity 9
Independence of judiciary 14
Indigenous persons 2
Integration 2
Internal armed conflict 19
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 9
International armed conflict 16
International courts and tribunals 7
International criminal law 4
International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 4
International protection 3
Involuntary repatriation 3
Japanese 3
Jehovah's Witness 1
Kachin 1
Koreans 15
Kurd 7
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 6
Migrants 13
Military operations 30
Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 5
Minorities 14
Minority rights 3
Multiple nationality 9
Muslim 25
Naturalization 1
Non-refoulement 8
Older persons 1
One-child policy / Family planning 2
Opposition 8
Orthodox Christian 14
Palestinian 9
Passports 3
Peace agreements 15
Peace process 19
Peacekeeping 12
Persecution based on political opinion 37
Persecution of family members 8
Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 13
Persons not in need of international protection 2
Persons with disabilities 17
Police 14
Political asylum 3
Political groups 4
Political parties 13
Political situation 51
Polygamy 2
Pre-trial detention 2
Presbyterian 8
Prison or detention conditions 45
Proof of nationality 2
Prostitution / Commercial sex work 13
Protection of civilian persons in time of war 6
Protestant 11
Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 12
Public health 10
Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 3
Reconciliation 4
Referendum 4
Refoulement 6
Refugee / Asylum law 3
Refugee camps 2
Refugee identity documents 2
Refugee travel documents / CTDs 2
Refugees 56
Refugees sur place 5
Rejected asylum-seekers 2
Rejection at border 1
Religious discrimination 35
Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 29
Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 1
Resettlement 2
Residence permits / Residency 8
Return conditions 2
Returnees 7
Right to a nationality 3
Right to development 1
Right to education 8
Right to employment 7
Right to food 66
Right to health 9
Right to justice 7
Right to liberty and security 4
Right to life 10
Right to registration at birth 1
Right to seek asylum 7
Right to self-determination 5
Rights of non-citizens 2
Rohingya (Arakanese) 2
Roma 3
Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 22
SGBV 26
Safe country of origin 2
Safe third country 7
Salafi 2
Sale of children 1
Sanctions 33
Security forces 14
Security situation 55
Sexual and reproductive rights 4
Shamanism 3
Shia 9
Small arms 1
Smuggling of persons 5
Social group discrimination 14
Somalis 1
State of emergency 2
State protection 2
Statelessness 1
Sunni 3
Sur place persecution 1
Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 5
Tamil 1
Tatars 2
Terrorism 55
Threats / Intimidation 4
Torture 25
Trafficking in persons 50
Transit 1
Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 3
Travel documents 3
Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 4
Uighur 11
Unaccompanied / Separated children 8
Unification Church 2
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 9
Unlawful departure 1
Visas 1
Voluntary repatriation 3
War crimes 2
Well-founded fear of persecution 2
Women's rights 36
Women-at-risk 14
Work permits 1
Yazīdī 2

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North Korea: No Justice Five Years After Kim Jong-Il's Death 16 December 2016 \| Publisher: Human Rights Watch \| Document type: Country News
Security Council resolution 2321 (2016) [on strengthening sanctions against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and condemning the nuclear test of 9 Sept. 2016] 13 December 2016 \| Publisher: UN Security Council \| Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations
Human rights violations in DPR Korea 'warning signs of instability and conflict,' Security Council told 9 December 2016 \| Publisher: UN News Service \| Document type: Country News
UN Security Council: Translate Words on North Korea to Action 8 December 2016 \| Publisher: Human Rights Watch \| Document type: Country News
New UN report urges action to end 'unimaginable suffering' for separated families on Korean peninsula 7 December 2016 \| Publisher: UN News Service \| Document type: Country News
Torn Apart - The Human Rights Dimension of the Involuntary Sepertation of Korean Families December 2016 \| Publisher: UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) \| Document type: Country Reports
Security Council strengthens measures against DPRK's nuclear, ballistic missile activities 30 November 2016 \| Publisher: UN News Service \| Document type: Country News
Limits on North Korean fishing zones lead to clashes at sea 30 November 2016 \| Publisher: Radio Free Asia \| Document type: Country News
DPR Korea: With victims' suffering 'enormous,' urgent solution needed –UN rights expert 25 November 2016 \| Publisher: UN News Service \| Document type: Country News
Real estate brokers seize opportunity in North Korea's housing market 23 November 2016 \| Publisher: Radio Free Asia \| Document type: Country News

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