UN expert urges North Korea to dismantle political prison camps
Geneva, Switzerland Reuters A UN human rights expert called on North Korea on Monday to release tens of thousands of people believed to languish in political prison camps, while urging regional and world powers to raise such issues with Pyongyang alongside nuclear concerns. Tomas Ojea Quintana said that a landmark UN investigation in 2014 had […]
World should send 60 million COVID-19 vaccines to North Korea, UN investigator says
Seoul, South Korea Reuters The international community should form a strategy to provide North Korea with at least 60 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to head off humanitarian disaster, an independent UN human rights investigator said on Wednesday. The vaccines could be a way to persuade the country to ease lockdowns that have left some […]
UN expert calls for North Korea sanctions to be eased as starvation risk looms
Geneva, Switzerland Reuters North Korea’s most vulnerable risk starvation after it slipped deeper into isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic and UN sanctions imposed for its nuclear and missile programs should be eased, a UN rights investigator said in report seen by Reuters. The worsening humanitarian situation could turn into a crisis and it is coinciding […]
Burma: Human rights gap remains serious, says UN special rapporteur
Tomás Ojea Quintana, UN Special Rapporteur on human rights situation in Burma, talks about what progress is – and isn’t – being made in the Asian nation in this report from Ekklesia…