Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Abduction 45
Access to procedures 8
Access to water 3
Adoption 1
Aliens 1
Anglican 1
Anti-terrorism law 1
Appeal / Right to appeal 1
Arbitrary arrest and detention 54
Armed attacks on camps 2
Armed forces / Military 53
Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 27
Asylum policy 5
Asylum-migration nexus 1
Asylum-seekers 29
Baha'i 1
Baptist 1
Border conflict 35
Border controls 20
Border crossers 18
Buddhist 22
Catholic 12
Ceasefire 9
Child labour 13
Child prostitution 8
Child soldiers 6
Children's rights 63
Children-at-risk 38
Chinese 3
Christian 50
Citizenship / Nationality law 19
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 4
Conflict resolution 3
Conflict situation 7
Confucianist 1
Constitutional law 2
Contemporary forms of slavery 4
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) 3
Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 5
Copts 1
Corruption 24
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 9
Deportation / Forcible return 31
Disappeared persons 51
Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 22
Domestic violence 4
Drug trafficking 3
Economic, social and cultural rights 33
Effective protection 4
Effective remedy 6
Elections 43
Embargo 3
Emigrants 2
Entry / Exit 2
Equal opportunities 1
Evacuation 2
Evangelical 1
Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 1
Exclusion clauses 1
Exiles 2
Expulsion 3
Extradition 1
Extrajudicial executions 54
Extreme poverty 3
False documents 4
Falun Gong 1
Family reunification 4
Female genital mutilation (FGM) 3
Flight by land, air or sea 2
Forced labour 90
Forced marriage 13
Forced relocation 1
Forced sterilization / Abortion 4
Foreign occupation 3
Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 56
Freedom of assembly and association 65
Freedom of conscience 4
Freedom of expression 192
Freedom of information 120
Freedom of movement 65
Freedom of religion 90
Freedom of speech 56
Gender discrimination 28
Gender-based persecution 4
Genocide 1
Good governance 7
Gross, systematic and large-scale 14
HIV and AIDS 3
Honour killings 1
Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 2
Human Rights Council 23
Human rights activists 13
Human rights and fundamental freedoms 152
Human rights law 1
Human rights monitors 39
Humanitarian assistance 34
Illegal entry 1
Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 7
Immigration Detention 7
Immigration control after entry 2
Immigration law 2
Impunity 11
Independence of judiciary 16
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 5
International protection 3
Involuntary repatriation 3
Japanese 3
Jehovah's Witness 1
Jew 1
Kachin 1
Koreans 18
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
Maternal and child health care 1
Medical screening 1
Migrant rights 8
Migrants 14
Military operations 33
Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 9
Minorities 14
Minority rights 3
Multiple nationality 9
Muslim 25
Naturalization 1
Non-refoulement 7
Older persons 2
One-child policy / Family planning 3
Opposition 9
Orthodox Christian 15
Palestinian 9
Passports 3
Peace agreements 15
Peace process 19
Peacekeeping 12
Persecution based on political opinion 40
Persecution of family members 8
Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 14
Persons not in need of international protection 2
Persons with disabilities 20
Police 16
Political asylum 4
Political groups 4
Political parties 15
Political situation 54
Polygamy 2
Pre-trial detention 2
Presbyterian 8
Prison or detention conditions 53
Proof of nationality 2
Prostitution / Commercial sex work 13
Protection of civilian persons in time of war 6
Protestant 13
Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 12
Public health 11
Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 3
Reconciliation 4
Referendum 4
Refoulement 7
Refugee / Asylum law 3
Refugee camps 2
Refugee identity documents 2
Refugee travel documents / CTDs 2
Refugees 62
Refugees sur place 7
Rejected asylum-seekers 2
Rejection at border 1
Religious discrimination 37
Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 32
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 11
Right to employment 7
Right to family life 1
Right to food 75
Right to health 11
Right to justice 13
Right to liberty and security 6
Right to life 12
Right to registration at birth 2
Right to seek asylum 8
Right to self-determination 5
Rights of non-citizens 2
Rohingya (Arakanese) 2
Roma 3
Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 27
Safe country of origin 2
Safe third country 8
Salafi 2
Sale of children 1
Sanctions 50
Security forces 16
Security situation 60
Serious non-political crime 1
Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 32
Sexual and reproductive rights 5
Shamanism 4
Shia 9
Small arms 2
Smuggling of persons 7
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 7
Tamil 1
Tatars 2
Terrorism 57
Threats / Intimidation 6
Torture 28
Trafficking in persons 55
Transit 1
Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 3
Travel documents 3
Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 5
Uighur 11
Unaccompanied / Separated children 9
Unification Church 2
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 9
Unlawful departure 1
Visas 3
Voluntary repatriation 4
War crimes 2
Well-founded fear of persecution 2
Women's rights 45
Women-at-risk 16
Work permits 2
Yazīdī 2

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China: Redoubling Crackdowns on Fleeing North Koreans 3 September 2017 \| Publisher: Human Rights Watch \| Document type: Country News
North Korea's state-run firms create 'new' smaller entities to evade UN sanctions 21 August 2017 \| Publisher: Radio Free Asia \| Document type: Country News
North Korean gangsters extort 'fees' from truckers, merchants 16 August 2017 \| Publisher: Radio Free Asia \| Document type: Country News
2016 Report on International Religious Freedom - Democratic People's Republic of Korea 15 August 2017 \| Publisher: United States Department of State \| Document type: Annual Reports
China: Protect 15 Detained North Koreans 8 August 2017 \| Publisher: Human Rights Watch \| Document type: Country News
UN Security Council toughens sanctions on DPR Korea over ballistic missile launches 5 August 2017 \| Publisher: UN News Service \| Document type: Country News
Security Council resolution 2371 (2017) [on strengthening sanctions against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and condemning the ballistic missile launches of 3 and 28 July 2017] 5 August 2017 \| Publisher: UN Security Council \| Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations
Situation of human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea 3 August 2017 \| Publisher: UN General Assembly \| Document type: Country Reports
Drought in DPR Korea threatens food supply during ongoing lean season 20 July 2017 \| Publisher: UN News Service \| Document type: Country News
Human Rights and Democracy Report 2016 - Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) 20 July 2017 \| Publisher: United Kingdom: Foreign and Commonwealth Office \| Document type: Annual Reports

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