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United Nations Urges North Korea Prosecutions 
Date : November 20, 2014
United Nations members voted decisively on Tuesday for a groundbreaking resolution that condemns North Korea for human rights abuses and for the first time recommends the…
U.N. resolution on NK human rights may easily pass panel: official 
Date : November 18, 2014
A United Nations resolution calling for the referral of North Korea's dismal human rights situation to the International Criminal Court (ICC) may easily pass through a U.…
China likely to veto North’s referral to ICC: envoy 
Date : November 8, 2014
A month after Japan and the European Union disseminated a draft resolution in the United Nations calling for the North Korean regime to be referred to the International C…
EU, Japan calls for UN vote on N. Korea war crimes probe 
Date : November 8, 2014
The European Union and Japan yesterday presented a United Nations resolution calling for a probe of the Pyongyang regime for crimes against humanity. “We cannot ign…
North Korea Tries on the Charm to Avoid ICC Referral 
Date : October 31, 2014
Earlier this year, international pressure on North Korea began to increase, when a U.N. report by a commission of inquiry laid out widespread abuses, including a harsh sy…
UN investigator, North Korea meet again on visit 
Date : October 31, 2014
A U.N. human rights investigator met for a second time Wednesday with a North Korean official on a possible groundbreaking visit and the North's demand that a U.N. effort…
U.N. human rights rapporteur calls for referring N. Korea to ICC 
Date : October 29, 2014
The U.N. special rapporteur on North Korea's human rights situation called Tuesday for referring the communist nation to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to show th…
At U.N., China asked to back rights case against North Korea 
Date : October 27, 2014
The chief U.N. investigator into human rights cases in North Korea said on Wednesday he has appealed to China to support calls to refer Pyongyang's actions to The Hague o…
North Korea Challenges U.N. Report on Violations 
Date : October 23, 2014
One of North Korea's most senior diplomats, U.N. envoy Jang Il-hun, warned that if any effort was made to charge the country's leader, Kim Jong-un, with crimes against hu…
N. Korean defectors to testify at U.N. on gulags 
Date : October 21, 2014
Two North Korean defectors said Tuesday they will visit the United Nations next week to join a forum on political prison camps in the communist nation.The forum to be hos…
Defectors call NK rights draft 'lies, hypocrisy' 
Date : October 17, 2014
In February of this year, the U.N. Commission Of Inquiry released a report detailing the North Korean government's numerous human rights violations against its citizens. …
N. Korea circulates its own draft U.N. resolution on human rights 
Date : October 16, 2014
North Korea circulated its own draft resolution on the country's human rights record at the United Nations on Wednesday in an effort to counter a separate proposal aimed …
North Korea Mentions Its Labor Camps 
Date : October 15, 2014
For the first time, a North Korean official publicly acknowledged the existence of his country's "reform through labor" camps. This mention appeared to come in response t…
N. Korea asked EU to soften resolution on human rights 
Date : October 14, 2014
North Korea asked the European Union to soften its resolution on human rights violations in the North, sources said Sunday, as the international community steps up pressu…
North Korea Defends Rights Record at UN Briefing 
Date : October 10, 2014
North Korea is defending its human rights record, even while acknowledging it runs labor camps that have been slammed by rights groups as inhumane.The comments came Tuesd…
 
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