North Korea submission to the 33rd UPR

Introduction

CSW is a human rights organisation specialising in the right to freedom of religion or belief (FoRB). This submission seeks to draw the Council’s attention to the ongoing grave human rights violations in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), between the period of 2014 and 2018.

Throughout the reporting period, the human rights situation has remained dire, with widespread systematic violations taking place on a daily basis. The breadth of which encompass torture, sexual violence, forced labour, public executions, arbitrary detention and mass arrests.

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