Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Abduction 44
Access to procedures 7
Access to water 3
Adoption 1
Aliens 1
Anglican 1
Anti-terrorism law 1
Appeal / Right to appeal 1
Arbitrary arrest and detention 53
Armed attacks on camps 2
Armed forces / Military 48
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 35
Border controls 14
Border crossers 12
Buddhist 22
Catholic 12
Ceasefire 9
Child labour 10
Child prostitution 7
Child soldiers 6
Children's rights 56
Children-at-risk 33
Chinese 3
Christian 47
Citizenship / Nationality law 7
Civil and political rights 14
Civil war 5
Climate change (including environmental migrants) 1
Combatants / Former combatants 2
Communal conflict / Social conflict 9
Complementary forms of protection 2
Conflict prevention 3
Conflict resolution 3
Conflict situation 6
Confucianist 1
Constitutional law 2
Contemporary forms of slavery 3
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) 1
Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 1
Copts 1
Corruption 19
Country of origin information (COI) 3
Coup d'état 1
Crimean Tatars 2
Crimes against humanity 39
Criminal justice 15
Cumulative grounds of persecution 1
Death in custody 2
Death penalty 68
Demobilization / Disarmament 7
Democracy 7
Deportation / Forcible return 27
Disappeared persons 50
Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 21
Domestic violence 3
Drug trafficking 2
Economic, social and cultural rights 33
Effective protection 3
Effective remedy 6
Elections 41
Embargo 3
Emigrants 1
Entry / Exit 2
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 29
Extreme poverty 3
False documents 4
Falun Gong 1
Family reunification 3
Female genital mutilation (FGM) 2
Flight by land, air or sea 2
Forced labour 83
Forced marriage 11
Forced relocation 1
Forced sterilization / Abortion 4
Foreign occupation 3
Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 54
Freedom of assembly and association 60
Freedom of conscience 4
Freedom of expression 183
Freedom of information 104
Freedom of movement 59
Freedom of religion 84
Freedom of speech 53
Gender discrimination 24
Gender-based persecution 3
Genocide 1
Good governance 7
Gross, systematic and large-scale 13
HIV and AIDS 2
Honour killings 1
Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 2
Human Rights Council 20
Human rights activists 13
Human rights and fundamental freedoms 144
Human rights law 1
Human rights monitors 34
Humanitarian assistance 29
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
Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 1
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 10
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) 2
Legal representation / Legal aid 1
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 19
Livelihoods 1
Mass exodus 1
Medical screening 1
Migrant rights 7
Migrants 13
Military operations 32
Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 7
Minorities 14
Minority rights 3
Multiple nationality 9
Muslim 25
Naturalization 1
Non-refoulement 7
Older persons 2
One-child policy / Family planning 2
Opposition 9
Orthodox Christian 15
Palestinian 9
Passports 3
Peace agreements 15
Peace process 19
Peacekeeping 12
Persecution based on political opinion 39
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 19
Police 15
Political asylum 4
Political groups 4
Political parties 13
Political situation 53
Polygamy 2
Pre-trial detention 2
Presbyterian 8
Prison or detention conditions 48
Proof of nationality 2
Prostitution / Commercial sex work 13
Protection of civilian persons in time of war 6
Protestant 12
Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 12
Public health 11
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 36
Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 31
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 9
Right to employment 7
Right to food 68
Right to health 10
Right to justice 13
Right to liberty and security 5
Right to life 11
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 24
SGBV 27
Safe country of origin 2
Safe third country 7
Salafi 2
Sale of children 1
Sanctions 43
Security forces 14
Security situation 58
Sexual and reproductive rights 4
Shamanism 4
Shia 9
Small arms 2
Smuggling of persons 6
Social group discrimination 15
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 6
Tamil 1
Tatars 2
Terrorism 55
Threats / Intimidation 5
Torture 26
Trafficking in persons 51
Transit 1
Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 3
Travel documents 3
Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 5
Uighur 11
Unaccompanied / Separated children 8
Unification Church 2
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 9
Unlawful departure 1
Visas 3
Voluntary repatriation 3
War crimes 2
Well-founded fear of persecution 2
Women's rights 37
Women-at-risk 14
Work permits 1
Yazīdī 2

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North Korea's youth grow increasingly critical of socialist system 28 April 2017 \| Publisher: Radio Free Asia \| Document type: Country News
Korean Peninsula: Conflict prevention 'our collective priority' but onus also on DPRK, says UN chief 28 April 2017 \| Publisher: UN News Service \| Document type: Country News
USCIRF Annual Report 2017 - Tier 1: USCIRF-recommended Countries of Particular Concern (CPC) - North Korea 26 April 2017 \| Publisher: United States Commission on International Religious Freedom \| Document type: Annual Reports
North Korea security personnel run protection racket amid tightened border controls 25 April 2017 \| Publisher: Radio Free Asia \| Document type: Country News
North Korea detains US citizen following Pyongyang teaching stint 24 April 2017 \| Publisher: Radio Free Asia \| Document type: Country News
China: Don't Force 8 Refugees Back to North Korea 23 April 2017 \| Publisher: Human Rights Watch \| Document type: Country News
North Korea: Kim Il-Sung's Birthday No Celebration for Women 13 April 2017 \| Publisher: Human Rights Watch \| Document type: Country News
Post latest missile test, Security Council condemns DPRK's 'highly destabilizing behaviour' 6 April 2017 \| Publisher: UN News Service \| Document type: Country News
North Korea rolls out trial of GPS devices to monitor border guards 5 April 2017 \| Publisher: Radio Free Asia \| Document type: Country News
China formally arrests South Korean pastors for helping North Koreans flee regime 5 April 2017 \| Publisher: Radio Free Asia \| Document type: Country News

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