{"id":116183,"date":"2023-08-18T07:40:51","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T04:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/increasing-militarisation-of-dpr-korea-fuelling-rise-in-human-rights-violations\/"},"modified":"2023-08-18T07:40:51","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T04:40:51","slug":"increasing-militarisation-of-dpr-korea-fuelling-rise-in-human-rights-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/increasing-militarisation-of-dpr-korea-fuelling-rise-in-human-rights-violations\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Increasing militarisation\u2019 of DPR Korea fuelling rise in human rights violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116183\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nContinuing \u2018severe, widespread and long-standing\u201d violations against citizens of the Democratic People\u2019s Republic of Korea (DPRK) by their own Government, must not be viewed in isolation from wider peace and security issues on the Peninsula, said the UN human rights chief on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Briefing the UN Security Council, Volker T\u00fcrk ran through a long list of rights abuses, saying that many \u201cstem directly from, or support, the increasing militarisation of the DPRK.&#8221; His argument was reinforced by the UN independent human rights expert Elizabeth Salm\u00f3n who told ambassadors that leaders of the DPRK \u2013 more commonly known as North Korea \u2013 have repeatedly demanded citizens \u201ctighten their belts\u201d to the point of starvation in some cases, \u201cso that the available resources could be used to fund the nuclear and missile programmes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>High Commissioner T\u00fcrk noted how the widespread use of forced labour, including in political prison camps, by children forced to collect harvests and the confiscation of overseas workers\u2019 wages, all support Pyongyang\u2019s imperative to \u201cbuild weapons.\u201d The Council met just over a month ago to discuss the \u201calarming and unsustainable\u201d situation across the Peninsula, which is also impacting nearby countries such as Japan, following what was DPRK\u2019s fourth intercontinental ballistic missile launch of the year. The UN rights chief began his briefing noting the dire state of human rights there, which underpin not only security, but humanitarian action and development. Rarely has DPRK been more \u201cpainfully closed\u201d to the outside world than it is today, triggered by border closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Information gathered by his office, OHCHR, \u201cincluding through interviews and from public information issued by the Government itself, indicates increasing repression of the rights to freedom of expression, privacy and movement; the persistence of widespread forced labour practices; and a worsening situation for economic and social rights due to the closure of markets and other forms of income generation.\u201d Since the shutdown, \u201conly a handful\u201d have managed to leave the North, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Although DPRK has said it is open to international cooperation to help end a food supply and nutrition crisis, offers of humanitarian support \u201chave been largely rebuffed\u201d said Mr. T\u00fcrk. The UN Country Team remains barred amid the border closures, along with almost all other foreign nationals. He said the return of the Country Team and new partnership framework, \u201cwould be crucial to advancing coordinated work to address the suffering of the people\u201d. He called for accountability for victims of rights abuses, both via the International Criminal Court and via \u201ctruth-telling, the recovery of remains and reparations programmes.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of North Koreans remain at risk of being repatriated involuntarily, he said, where they may face torture and arbitrary detention. He urged all States not to send citizens home, \u201cand to provide them with the required protections and humanitarian support.\u201d \u201cSustainable peace can only be built by advancing human rights, and its corollaries: reconciliation, inclusion and justice\u201d, he concluded.<\/p>\n<p>The UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in DPRK, Ms. Salm\u00f3n, highlighted the precarious situation of women and girls there, beginning with vulnerability to starvation, disease, and lack of available healthcare. \u201cWomen are detained in inhuman conditions and are subjected to torture and ill-treatment, forced labour and gender-based violence by State officials\u201d, she told ambassadors in the Council. She said they needed to consider peacemaking \u201cbeyond the absence of violence or fear of violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe preparation for any possible peacemaking process needs to include women as decisionmakers and this process needs to start now.\u201d She said \u201cclear benchmarks\u201d on human rights were an essential element of any negotiations. \u201cI call upon the Security Council to place the protection of human rights at the centre of a reinvigorated peace and security agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: The UN <\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/increasing-militarisation-of-dpr-korea-fuelling-rise-in-human-rights-violations\/\">\u2018Increasing militarisation\u2019 of DPR Korea fuelling rise in human rights violations<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[555,11115,383,7466],"class_list":["post-116183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-csr-news-en","tag-dpr-korea","tag-human-rights","tag-violations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}