Democratic People's Republic of Korea

• Amnesty International 21
• Child Soldiers International 3
• Committee to Protect Journalists 12
• Freedom House 31
• Human Rights Watch 8
• International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) 2
• International Trade Union Confederation 5
• Minority Rights Group International 5
• Reporters Without Borders 14
• United Kingdom: Foreign and Commonwealth Office 5
• United States Commission on International Religious Freedom 12
• United States Committee for Refugees and Immigrants 10
• United States Department of State 59

• Abduction 5
• Access to procedures 3
• Anglican 1
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 24
• Armed forces / Military 1
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 2
• Asylum-seekers 11
• Baha'i 1
• Border conflict 2
• Border controls 3
• Buddhist 12
• Catholic 9
• Child labour 3
• Child prostitution 2
• Child soldiers 3
• Children's rights 21
• Children-at-risk 13
• Chinese 2
• Christian 16
• Civil and political rights 3
• Conflict situation 1
• Copts 1
• Corruption 3
• Criminal justice 8
• Death penalty 14
• Demobilization / Disarmament 1
• Democracy 1
• Deportation / Forcible return 3
• Disabled persons 5
• Disappeared persons 23
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 14
• Economic, social and cultural rights 14
• Effective protection 1
• Effective remedy 1
• Elections 5
• Equal opportunities 1
• Evangelical 1
• Extrajudicial executions 18
• Extreme poverty 1
• False documents 1
• Falun Gong 1
• Forced labour 27
• Forced marriage 3
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 25
• Freedom of assembly and association 33
• Freedom of conscience 1
• Freedom of expression 70
• Freedom of information 31
• Freedom of movement 28
• Freedom of religion 50
• Freedom of speech 19
• Gender discrimination 15
• Gender-based persecution 1
• Gross, systematic and large-scale 2
• Human rights activists 3
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 26
• Human rights monitors 9
• Humanitarian assistance 1
• Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 2
• Immigration Detention 3
• Impunity 1
• Independence of judiciary 7
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 1
• International courts and tribunals 1
• International protection 2
• Involuntary repatriation 1
• Japanese 1
• Koreans 2
• Labour law 1
• Legal representation / Legal aid 1
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 1
• Migrants 1
• Military operations 2
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 3
• Minorities 13
• Minority rights 3
• Muslim 2
• Non-refoulement 1
• Orthodox Christian 11
• Peace process 1
• Persecution based on political opinion 7
• Persecution of family members 3
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 2
• Police 4
• Political parties 1
• Pre-trial detention 1
• Presbyterian 6
• Prison or detention conditions 18
• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 4
• Protestant 9
• Public health 1
• Refoulement 1
• Refugee identity documents 2
• Refugee travel documents / CTDs 2
• Refugees 19
• Religious discrimination 25
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 18
• Return conditions 1
• Returnees 3
• Right to education 2
• Right to employment 7
• Right to food 16
• Right to health 1
• Right to justice 2
• Right to life 1
• Right to self-determination 3
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 6
• SGBV 14
• Security forces 3
• Sexual and reproductive rights 1
• Shamanism 2
• Shia 1
• Smuggling of persons 3
• Social group discrimination 14
• Sunni 1
• Terrorism 15
• Torture 8
• Trafficking in persons 32
• Unification Church 1
• Unlawful departure 1
• Visas 1
• Women's rights 21
• Women-at-risk 13
• Work permits 1

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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