The forgotten many : Nombreux oubliés : droits de la personne et transfuges Nord-Coréens

Charles Robert Clerk of the Senate 5 6 THE FORGOTTEN MANY: HUMAN RIGHTS AND NORTH KOREAN DEFECTORS INTRODUCTION On 9 March 2016, the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights (the Committee) undertook to study the human rights situation in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the treatment of North Korean defectors, under its general order of reference: To monitor issues rel [...] Alex Neve emphasized that this causes North Koreans to be “deprived of the chance to learn about and from the outside world while at the same time being suppressed from telling the outside world about the grim human rights situation in the 6 country.”. [...] That is why there is a lot of 8 domestic violence against women.” A. International response to the human rights situation in North Korea In March 2013, the United Nations Human Rights Council passed a resolution establishing a commission of inquiry on the situation of human rights in North Korea and renewed the 9 mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in North Korea. [...] Christopher Kim, Executive Director of the Canadian advocacy organization HanVoice, stated that the Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (COI) “found that some of the most egregious human rights violations reached the level of ‘crimes against humanity’… [and] urged the international community to 11 refer this situation to the International Criminal Cou [...] In November 2014, Canada co-sponsored a resolution in the UN General Assembly that took note of the COI’s report, urged North Korea to respect the human rights of its citizens and emphasized the need for accountability for human rights abuses.