Democratic People's Republic of Korea

• Amnesty International 29
• Child Soldiers International 3
• Committee to Protect Journalists 13
• Freedom House 44
• Human Rights Watch 13
• International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) 6
• International Trade Union Confederation 5
• Minority Rights Group International 5
• Reporters Without Borders 15
• United Kingdom: Foreign and Commonwealth Office 12
• United States Commission on International Religious Freedom 17
• United States Committee for Refugees and Immigrants 10
• United States Department of State 79

• Abduction 10
• Access to procedures 7
• Anglican 1
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 33
• Armed forces / Military 2
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 2
• Asylum policy 2
• Asylum-seekers 13
• Baha'i 1
• Border conflict 3
• Border controls 5
• Border crossers 1
• Buddhist 16
• Catholic 12
• Child labour 8
• Child prostitution 6
• Child soldiers 3
• Children's rights 27
• Children-at-risk 17
• Chinese 2
• Christian 23
• Civil and political rights 3
• Conflict situation 1
• Confucianist 1
• Contemporary forms of slavery 2
• Copts 1
• Corruption 10
• Crimes against humanity 4
• Criminal justice 8
• Death penalty 24
• Demobilization / Disarmament 4
• Democracy 9
• Deportation / Forcible return 4
• Disappeared persons 31
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 15
• Domestic violence 2
• Drug trafficking 1
• Economic, social and cultural rights 15
• Effective protection 2
• Effective remedy 1
• Elections 15
• Emigrants 2
• Equal opportunities 1
• Evangelical 1
• Exiles 2
• Extrajudicial executions 23
• Extreme poverty 1
• False documents 1
• Falun Gong 1
• Female genital mutilation (FGM) 3
• Forced labour 45
• Forced marriage 10
• Forced sterilization / Abortion 1
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 30
• Freedom of assembly and association 48
• Freedom of conscience 1
• Freedom of expression 98
• Freedom of information 47
• Freedom of movement 43
• Freedom of religion 72
• Freedom of speech 24
• Gender discrimination 17
• Gender-based persecution 1
• Gross, systematic and large-scale 8
• HIV and AIDS 2
• Human rights activists 7
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 36
• Human rights monitors 17
• Humanitarian assistance 1
• Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 2
• Immigration Detention 3
• Impunity 5
• Independence of judiciary 12
• Indigenous persons 2
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 1
• International courts and tribunals 2
• International criminal law 2
• International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 3
• International protection 3
• Involuntary repatriation 1
• Japanese 1
• Jew 1
• Koreans 3
• 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) 5
• Maternal and child health care 1
• Migrant rights 3
• Migrants 2
• Military operations 3
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 3
• Minorities 13
• Minority rights 3
• Muslim 2
• Non-refoulement 1
• One-child policy / Family planning 1
• Orthodox Christian 14
• Peace process 1
• Peacekeeping 2
• Persecution based on political opinion 13
• Persecution of family members 7
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 4
• Persons with disabilities 12
• Police 9
• Political parties 4
• Political situation 2
• Pre-trial detention 1
• Presbyterian 8
• Prison or detention conditions 28
• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 9
• Protection of civilian persons in time of war 1
• Protestant 12
• Public health 2
• Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 2
• Refoulement 1
• Refugee identity documents 2
• Refugee travel documents / CTDs 2
• Refugees 28
• Religious discrimination 31
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 24
• Return conditions 1
• Returnees 5
• Right to education 4
• Right to employment 7
• Right to food 21
• Right to health 1
• Right to justice 2
• Right to life 1
• Right to registration at birth 2
• Right to self-determination 4
• Roma 2
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 19
• Sanctions 5
• Security forces 6
• Security situation 1
• Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 16
• Sexual and reproductive rights 3
• Shamanism 3
• Shia 1
• Smuggling of persons 4
• Social group discrimination 14
• Sunni 1
• Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 5
• Terrorism 24
• Threats / Intimidation 4
• Torture 19
• Trafficking in persons 43
• Unaccompanied / Separated children 1
• Unification Church 2
• Unlawful departure 1
• Visas 1
• Voluntary repatriation 1
• Women's rights 27
• Women-at-risk 13
• Work permits 1

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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