United Nations Urges North Korea Prosecutions By Rick Gladstone, The New York Times 18 November 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 prosecution of its leaders for crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court. Outraged and humiliated in a vote that was shown live on the United Nations website, North

UN Investigator, North Korea Meet Again on Visit By Cara Anna, Associated Press 29 October 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 to refer the country's situation to the International Criminal Court be dropped. Marzuki Darusman met with a councilor from the North's Geneva office. He said nothing was decided but

North Korea Agrees to Weigh Steps on Human Rights By Nick Cumming-Bruce, The New York Times 19 September 2014 More than half a year after a landmark report by a United Nations commission of inquiry pinned responsibility for crimes against humanity on North Korea’s leadership, the North’s ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva said Friday that the North had accepted a wide range of recommendations for improving its human rights record.

North Korea To Publish Human Rights Report To Refute 'Lies And Fabrications' By Avaneesh Pandey, International Business Times August 11, 2014   North Korea’s Association For Human Rights Studies said that it would release its own human rights report in an attempt to counter the “lies and fabrications” spread by “hostile forces,” Agence France-Presse, or AFP, reported Monday. “The report will show the true picture of the people (of

By Roberta Cohen The Washington Post 25 July, 2014  Since the U.N. Commission of Inquiry issued its report on North Korea in February, U.N. bodies, human rights organizations, governments and think tanks have been working to respond to the crimes against humanity it documented, including the systematic abuse of prisoners and food policies that lead to starvation. But the report’s most chilling section rarely gets discussed: standing orders at

S. Sudan Bumps Somalia as Most 'Fragile' State By Catherine Maddox, Voice of America June 25, 2014 Every year for the past 10 years, The Fund for Peace, in partnership with the Foreign Policy Magazine, has released an index of the world's most fragile states, based on the analysis of mountains of data. And if there is a headline to this year's index, it is that South Sudan is now the world's most fragile nation, displacing Somalia, which has held

By Becca Stanek TIME 19 June, 2014 A new report suggests that the current situation in North Korea may amount to genocide. Although the world has long been aware of potential human rights violations and crimes against humanity in North Korea, few have called the situation there an outright genocide. The report came to light at a House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing Tuesday, during which South Korea Human Rights Ambassador Lee Jong-hoon said

Independent report finds evidence of genocide in North Korea Human rights group Human Liberty releases independent legal opinion on UN COI By PRNewswire June 18, 2014 LONDON, June 18, 2014 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- A new independent legal opinion commissioned by human rights group Human Liberty (www.humanliberty.org) suggests that the current situation in North Korea may amount to genocide. The report recommends further action by the United Nations

By Jonathan Cheng The Wall Street Journal June 18, 2014 Three months ago, a United Nations commission of inquiry into human rights abuses in North Korea produced a 372-page document systematically detailing a litany of horrific charges, and recommending the U.N. refer the case to the International Criminal Court. Even the optimists don’t think that will happen — China, an ally of North Korea, holds a Security Council veto that would more or

North Korea: U.N. Attracts Threats for Plan to Monitor Human Rights By Choe Sang-Hun, The New York Times 9 June 2014 North Korea on Monday threatened “ruthless punishment” against South Korea for playing host to a United Nations office that will monitor the human rights situation in the North. In May, South Korea accepted a request from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to open a field office in Seoul. On Monday, North Korea