The World's Top Executioners
Posted by dreamgirl, Sep 27 2011, 11:47 PM in Human rights
Foreign Policy, an American foreign policy media, selected the nations with the most executions done : China, Iran, and North Korea.
North Korea is on the 3rd with approximately 60 executions done.
However, this was only done with official records, but considering all the human rights abuse and secret abusing that go on in North Korea, North Korea practically and easily tops the list, I believe.
North Korea, where dictatorship has been passed down to the third generation, has been proven to be the land of human rights abuse by the testimonies of the defectors. Political prisons inside are full of violence and public executions, and the agents that look over these facilities rape, torture, and abuse the prisoners as if they were nothing.
North Korean citizens' rights and lives are nothing more than a piece of trash on the street.
Although North Korea may be the third on the official list, they sure are qualified to be the first unofficially.
'Daughter of Tongyong'.. We must not leave North Korea's Human Rights Issues as They Are
Posted by dreamgirl, Sep 26 2011, 01:49 AM in Human rights
Rescue for Sook-Ja Shin, also known as 'daughter of Tongyong', is becoming an international issue as the top three world human rights advocates and a German human rights activist are campaigning for the issue.
Last week, a woman who has been 'protesting in silence for the improvement of human rights in North Korea' in front of North Korea's Embassy in Berlin for the past 2 years, called for Shin Sook-Ja's rescue. Many human rights organizations are also mobilizing to sue and criticize Kim Jong-Il's regime for the inhumane crimes and to rescue Shin Sook-Ja.
Besides Shin Sook-Ja case, which has only shown the tip of the iceberg, North Korea has built a 'murder factory', political prison where human rights abuse is beyond imagination for anybody.
We cannot just let North Korea commit whatever human rights absue they want. The international body of human rights activists must altogether criticize and act against North Korea's human rights abuse in order to save the countless citizens of North Korea. North Korea's human rights abuse must end, and their crimes must be punished.
No Future For North Korea
Posted by dreamgirl, Sep 20 2011, 02:49 AM in Human rights
A while ago, a group of North Korean defectors were rescued near Japan's Ishikawa area, and they talked about the harsh reality they faced in North Korea.
The man that led the escape said, "there was no future there, so we decided to escape."
As the number of defectors has been increasing, North Korean authorities have tightened the border security as well.
The fact that North Korean citizens are escaping from all sides despite the tight security really shows how much of an empty promise North Korea's military-first policies and 3-generation inheritance are, and the severity of the food shortage, economic problems, and general uneasiness.
Now NGOs, religious organizations and tourists are telling the 'real' stories about North Korea, but these defectors really showed how bad the situation is, especially when a military fund manager escaped.
What North Korea's 3 Kim's have been advertising as "2012 Greatest Nation" and nice food and housing all turned out to be a blatant lie.
The Face of Hunger in DPR Korea
Posted by dreamgirl, Sep 16 2011, 02:38 AM in Human rights
World Food Programme(WFP) released videos showing the reality of starving North Korean children and the aftermath of flooding.
This video shows the starved and malnourished children of a nursery of Hwanghaedo area, and flood-destroyed bridges, roads, and rice paddies.
The children of the nursery have no focus in their eyes due to the malnutrition, and skin diseases all over them due to unsanitary water. With just skin and bones, they don't even have the strength to stand; the whole nursery is full of children just sitting like living corpse. It is an extraordinarily saddening scene.
The food shortage of North Korea only worsened after the recent flooding. European Union and the USA have been showing willingness to provide food aids, but it is unclear whether the government of North Korea will actually and honestly deliever the food to the starving citizens.
Little children who should be playing outside innocently are dying helplessly because of a flawed society. We can only hope for North Korea's willingness to solve this food shortage problem.
EU urged to continue 'restrictive' sanctions against North Korea
Posted by dreamgirl, Sep 7 2011, 01:08 AM in Human rights
A human rights expert has called on the EU to continue strictly implementing the UN sanctions and its own restrictive measures against North Korea.
Speaking on Tuesday at a conference in Tokyo, Willy Fautre, of the Brussels-based NGO Human Rights Without Frontiers, also welcomed apparent improvements in the country's human rights record.
Fautre said that no comprehensive study has ever been carried out to assess the efficiency of the UN and the US sanctions, of the EU restrictive measures and of the overall "naming and shaming" policy by various human rights NGOs and institutions around the world.
However, he added, "It seems that North Korea has partly curbed its repression policy on some issues that have been highly publicised around the world.
"On the basis of fragmented information it seems that the number of executions has diminished, that the imprisonment periods of the repatriated defectors are now reduced, that forced abortions of repatriated pregnant defectors and killings of newborn children are less practiced during their detention.
"It means that North Korea is not totally deaf to pressure of the international community.
"This should be both an encouragement and a source of inspiration for the shaping of EU policies concerning North Korea."
In his speech to the conference, Fautre addressed a number of recommendations to the EU in its dealings with the North Korean regime which he said has the poorest human rights record in the world.
He said, "The EU should go on strictly implementing the UN sanctions and its own restrictive measures, and annually report on them.
"It should also go on pressuring the North Korean leadership through its own mechanisms, including the European parliament delegation for relations with the Korean peninsula to abide by the international human rights standards and to respect its UN commitments."
He said the EU should also press the countries in which defectors have taken refuge to apply the principle of "non-refoulement" and press China to allow the international community to provide direct and unhindered assistance to North Korean defectors.
Fautre told the conference that up to now, North Korea has demonstrated an "extraordinary" ability to survive the UN sanctions of which the EU is part of.
In 2006, sanctions under UN resolution 1718 imposed an embargo on heavy armaments and on material that can be used for ballistic purposes; an assets freeze and a ban on technical assistance, on travels of persons involved in DPKR's nuclear and ballistic programme, as well as on the transfer of luxury goods to North Korea.
"Enforcement of the sanctions is however difficult as it requires intrusive inspections of all cargo entering North Korea, which the main neighbouring country, China, will not do," he added.