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Tragedy facing North Koreans, painstakingly documented in a UN Commission of Inquiry report a decade ago, must not be forgotten

On January 4, 2024, Secretary Blinken announced that he designated Burma, the People’s Republic of China, Cuba, the DPRK, Eritrea, Iran, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Russia...

On October 5, coinciding with the fifty-fourth session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, an important conference was held to address the severe human rights situation in Iran under

Coinciding with the fifty-fourth session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, a conference was held on October 5, to examine the human

Kosovo says group behind deadly clash with local police was armed by Serbia and sought to provoke partition

We are writing to express our concern about the resumption of forcible returns of North Koreans detained in the People’s Republic of China to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea), which had stopped since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.

Human rights advocates are joining international efforts to step up pressure on Beijing ahead of the Asian Games in Hangzhou to cease its practice of forcibly repatriating North Ko...

It is time for a new approach, one that has accountability at its heart

This report documents torture, killings, rapes, forced expulsions, and other war crimes committed by Serbian and Yugoslav government forces against Kosovar Albanians between March 24 and June 12, 1999, the period of NATO's air campaign against Yugoslavia. The report reveals a coordinated and systematic campaign to terrorize, kill, and expel the ethnic Albanians of Kosovo that was organized by the highest levels of the Serbian and Yugoslav governments in power at that time.

There is enough evidence that some of these acts amount to crimes against humanity.