The North Korean Refugee Crisis: Human Rights
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Report on The North Korean Refugee Crisis:
Human Rights and International Response.
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Failure to Protect: A Call to the UN Security
Council to Act in North Korea
[2006] The report makes the argument that North Korea is in breach of
meeting its international obligations as a state party to the main
human rights protocols of the UN system, and is committing crimes
against humanity. The report makes recommendations to the UN Security
Council under Chapter VI to look seriously at a strategy on human
rights.
Vaclav Havel (former President of the Czech Republic), Kjell Magne
Bondevik (former Prime Minister of Norway), and Elie Wiesel (Nobel
Peace Prize Laureate) are the report's co-commissioners.
Hunger and Human Rights: The Politics of
Famine in North Korea
[2005] North Korea is well into its second decade of chronic food
shortages. A famine in the 1990s killed as many as 1 million North
Koreans or roughly 5 percent of the population. Millions more were left
to contend with broken lives and personal misery. Particularly
worrisome are the long-term effects-including irreversible ones-on the
human development of infants and children. But North Korean claims that
the famine was due primarily to natural disasters and external shocks
are misleading in important respects. The decline in food production
and the deterioration of the public distribution system (PDS) were
visible years before the floods of 1995. Moreover, the government was
culpably slow to take the necessary steps to guarantee adequate food
supplies. With plausible policy adjustments-such as maintaining food
imports on commercial terms or aggressively seeking multilateral
assistance-the government could have avoided the famine and the
shortages that continue to plague the country.
This study has implications for four sets of actors: the North Korean
government itself; the donor community working through the WFP; the two
countries-China and South Korea-who extend aid bilaterally; and the
non-governmental organizations engaged in the country. [more...]
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The Hidden Gulag: Exposing North Korea's
Prison Camps Prisoners' Testimonies and Satellite Photographs
[2003] A report documenting that the government of North Korea (DPRK)
operates a vast and inhumane prison system for political prisoners.
Satellite photography and testimony from escaped former prisoners
reveal that North Korea has between 150,000 and 200,000 political
prisoners working as slave laborers in prison colonies known as
kwan-li-so. The kwan-li-so make up a considerable fraction of the North
Korean gulag, according to the report. [more...]
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