North Korean defectors urge the UN to hold the country’s leader accountable for rights abuses

Pyongyang decries U.N. General Assembly meeting on N.K. human rights as 'provocation'

SEOUL, May 23 (Yonhap) -- North Korea on Friday decried a recent high-level U.N. Assembly ...

North Korean defectors call on UN to try Kim Jong-un for crimes against humanity - The Mirror

Eunju Kim and Gyuri Kang both gave evidence to the United Nations general assembly with horrific stories of deaths and starvations inside the secretive state of North Korea

Rare UN meeting spotlights North Korea’s human rights abuses, support for Russia

Activists, diplomats and North Korean escapees took to the podium at the U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) to testify about Pyongyang’s systematic abuse of human rights on Tuesday, including its dispatch of soldiers to fight Ukraine, in the first-ever meeting of its kind devoted to addressing the Kim regime’s record. The gathering at the U.N. Headquarters […]

North Korean human rights a global issue, speakers tell U.N. General Assembly

Activists, officials and defectors highlighted human rights violations in North Korea at a high-level meeting of the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday, with many directly tying Pyongyang's systemic abuses to its gr

‘My friends were executed’: North Koreans tell UN of regime’s brutal reality

One escaped North Korea only to be sold to a Chinese man for less than US$300. Another was banished to the countryside aged 5.

North Korean defectors urge the UN to hold the country's leader accountable for rights abuses

Two women who fled North Korea have been telling the United Nations about the plight of people still living in the country and urging the world body to hold North Korea’s leader accountable for gross human rights violations.