Event on North Korea Human Rights

Event entitled “North Korea Human Rights: The Terrifying Experiences of Forcibly Repatriated North Korean Women" will shed light on the DPRK’s gross human rights violations committed against North Korean asylum seekers, particularly women, as they are forcibly returned and then subjected to torture and other forms of abuse in inhumane detention facilities.

• Categories: Meetings & Events / Side Events
• Video Length: 01:19:23
• Production Date: 11 December 2017
• Asset Language: English; Original
• Personal Subject: NIKKI R. HALEY
• Subject Topical: HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS; REPATRIATION; GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE; TORTURE AND OTHER CRUEL TREATMENT
• Geographic Subject: DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA
• MAMS Id: 2057244
• Parent Id: 2056837

Description

The event features testimony from a North Korean survivor, who describes her ordeals and the chilling experiences she endured when repatriated multiple times to North Korea; Michael Kirby, former Justice of the Australian High Court and former Chair of the Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the DPRK; and David Hawk, former Executive Director of Amnesty International and North Korea human rights expert.

(Organized by the Missions of the United States, Australia, Canada, France, Japan, the Republic of Korea, and the United Kingdom)