Saenuri Party lawmaker Hwang Woo Yea, co-chair of the International Parliamentarians\u2019 Coalition for North Korean Refugees and Human Rights (IPCNKR), has sent a letter to the 46 members of the UN Human Rights Council urging them to establish an inquiry to investigate North Korean human rights abuses. <\/p>\n
The letter, which is co-signed by U.S., Japanese and Polish lawmakers, was delivered to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday. <\/p>\n
The UN Human Rights Council is scheduled to meet in February, whereupon Japan is expected to submit a resolution calling for the inquiry to be established. Therefore, an official with Hwang Woo Yea\u2019s office told Daily NK, \u201cWe sent the letter to the 46 members to try and generate international support prior to the Japanese resolution.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEven though there is a new leader in North Korea, there is no sign that the human rights situation is going to improve,\u201d Hwang notes in the letter, citing forced labor, guilt-by-association, political prison camps, systematic torture and sexual abuse, starvation and abduction as some of the core human rights abuses committed by the North Korean regime. <\/p>\n
\u201cSince taking power in 2011, Kim Jong Eun has signaled that he will strengthen the military and the regime will continue systematically violating the people\u2019s human rights,\u201d it goes on.<\/p>\n
However, \u201cCountries that have for a long time been strongly against international pressure on North Korea are not part of the Human Rights Council this year, which means there is a golden opportunity to establish an inquiry this session.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Saenuri Party lawmaker Hwang Woo Yea, co-chair of the International Parliamentarians\u2019 Coalition for North Korean Refugees and Human Rights (IPCNKR), has sent a letter to the 46 members of the UN Human Rights Council urging them to establish an inquiry to investigate North Korean human rights abuses. The letter, which is co-signed by U.S., Japanese […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":22602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n