Joint open letter concerning the UN Human Rights Council’s 2020 resolution on North Korean Human Rights
We are writing on behalf of 36 non-governmental organizations, coalitions, and concerned individuals from 10 different countries worldwide to urge the European Union to make every effort to highlight the on-going systematic, widespread and gross human rights violations, including those that amount to crimes against humanity, and appropriate actions to be taken by the stakeholders in the annual resolution on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea that is expected to be adopted by the 43rd UN Human Rights Council in March.
At the ...
Joint Statement on Deportation of Two North Korean Fishermen by 20 Human Rights and Civil Society Organizations for North Korean Human Rights
We, the signatories, jointly condemn the South Korean government and its hasty decision to repatriate two North Korean fishermen. Such a decision is a grave violation of international and domestic laws including Article 3 of the United Nations Convention against Torture (UNCAT), which forbids States Parties from returning persons to another State where there are substantial grounds for believing that they would be in danger of being subjected to torture.
We strongly urge the DPRK to disclose the current situation and future plans for the deported men.
We call upon ...
Letter to President Moon Jae-in RE: ROK’s stance on human rights in North Korea
December 16, 2019
Joint Letter
Joint call on North Korea’s anti-black hate speech and racist propaganda on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination: Recommendations for North Korea’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on 9 May 2019
Seoul, March 21, 2019
Today marks the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, which commemorates the 59th anniversary of the massacre of 69 peaceful anti-apartheid protesters in Sharpeville, South Africa on 21 March 1960. While humanity has made great progress in terms of ending institutional segregation and discrimination in the decades since that dark chapter in history, the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination remains a distant, unfulfilled dream.
The theme of this year’s International Day for the Elimination of Racial ...