Democratic People's Republic of Korea

• Annual Reports 73

• Abduction 3
• Access to procedures 1
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 23
• Asylum policy 1
• Asylum-seekers 1
• Border controls 1
• Buddhist 9
• Catholic 9
• Child labour 6
• Child prostitution 5
• Children's rights 19
• Children-at-risk 14
• Christian 10
• Confucianist 1
• Contemporary forms of slavery 1
• Corruption 3
• Crimes against humanity 2
• Criminal justice 6
• Democracy 3
• Deportation / Forcible return 1
• Disappeared persons 21
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 14
• Domestic violence 1
• Economic, social and cultural rights 13
• Effective protection 1
• Effective remedy 1
• Elections 5
• Emigrants 1
• Evangelical 1
• Exiles 1
• Extrajudicial executions 20
• Forced labour 29
• Forced marriage 5
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 17
• Freedom of assembly and association 23
• Freedom of expression 21
• Freedom of information 9
• Freedom of movement 21
• Freedom of religion 38
• Freedom of speech 21
• Gender discrimination 16
• Gender-based persecution 1
• Gross, systematic and large-scale 1
• HIV and AIDS 1
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 15
• Human rights monitors 4
• Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 2
• Immigration Detention 1
• Impunity 4
• Independence of judiciary 6
• International protection 3
• Japanese 1
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 1
• Minorities 5
• Orthodox Christian 9
• Persecution based on political opinion 10
• Persecution of family members 6
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 3
• Persons with disabilities 6
• Police 5
• Political parties 1
• Presbyterian 8
• Prison or detention conditions 10
• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 9
• Protestant 9
• Refugees 7
• Religious discrimination 20
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 15
• Return conditions 1
• Returnees 4
• Right to education 1
• Right to registration at birth 1
• Right to self-determination 4
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 5
• SGBV 15
• Security forces 5
• Sexual and reproductive rights 1
• Shamanism 1
• Smuggling of persons 3
• Social group discrimination 13
• Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 4
• Terrorism 19
• Threats / Intimidation 3
• Torture 5
• Trafficking in persons 37
• Unification Church 2
• Women's rights 18
• 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