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• Copts 1
• Corruption 11
• Country of origin information (COI) 3
• Crimes against humanity 6
• Criminal justice 14
• Cumulative grounds of persecution 1
• Death in custody 1
• Death penalty 29
• Demobilization / Disarmament 5
• Democracy 1
• Deportation / Forcible return 8
• Disabled persons 11
• Disappeared persons 30
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 14
• Domestic violence 2
• Economic, social and cultural rights 24
• Effective protection 2
• Effective remedy 1
• Elections 9
• Equal opportunities 1
• Evacuation 2
• Evangelical 1
• Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 1
• Extrajudicial executions 21
• Extreme poverty 2
• False documents 1
• Falun Gong 1
• Female genital mutilation (FGM) 2
• Flight by land, air or sea 1
• Forced labour 42
• Forced marriage 5
• Forced sterilization / Abortion 2
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 37
• Freedom of assembly and association 36
• Freedom of conscience 2
• Freedom of expression 112
• Freedom of information 51
• Freedom of movement 37
• Freedom of religion 61
• Freedom of speech 34
• Gender discrimination 20
• Gender-based persecution 3
• Good governance 5
• Gross, systematic and large-scale 6
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• Human rights activists 8
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 78
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• Political situation 22
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• Presbyterian 6
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• Protestant 9
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• Refugees 33
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• SGBV 20
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• Security situation 18
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• Well-founded fear of persecution 2
• Women's rights 28
• Women-at-risk 13
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• AlertNet - North Korea
• Amnesty International - North Korea
• Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)
• Committee for Human Rights in North Korea
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Dem People's Rep of Korea
• Human Rights Watch (HRW) - North Korea
• International Committee of the Red Cross - The ICRC regional delegation in Beijing
• International Crisis Group (ICG) - North Korea
• Life Funds for North Korean Refugees
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) - Democratic People's Republic of Korea
• Radio Free Asia (RFA) - Korea
• ReliefWeb - Democratic People's Republic of Korea (the)
• UNHCR - Democratic People's Republic of Korea
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - Korea, Democratic People's Republic of
• United States Department of State - North Korea
• United States Department of State: Congressional Research Service Reports (CRS) and Issue Briefs
• World Food Programme (WFP) - Korea, Democratic People's Republic (DPRK)
• World Health Organization (WHO) - Democratic People's Republic of Korea