This photograph offered by South Korea’s unification ministry exhibits the poster of the 2024 Worldwide Dialogue on North Korean Human Rights, Oct. 27. Yonhap
The unification ministry mentioned Monday it is going to maintain a two-day discussion board on North Korea’s human rights scenario in Switzerland this week forward of the United Nations’ assessment of the North’s human rights report subsequent month.
The 2024 Worldwide Dialogue on North Korean Human Rights will probably be held Monday and Tuesday (native time) in Geneva in a bid to assist bolster worldwide solidarity over the difficulty forward of the U.N. Human Rights Council’s common periodic assessment (UPR) of North Korea on Nov. 7, in accordance with the ministry.
The UPR is a mechanism that requires every U.N. member state to undergo a peer assessment of its human rights report each 4 and a half years.
On the primary day of the discussion board, Unification Minister Kim Yung-ho will ship his congratulatory remarks by way of video. Panelists will talk about the UPR of North Korea in addition to the North’s overseas coverage and human rights.
Ri Il-gyu, a former counselor of political affairs on the North Korean Embassy in Cuba, will be part of the discussion board on Monday as a panelist in his first look on the worldwide stage since his defection to South Korea in November 2023.
On the second day, about 10 civic teams devoted to enhancing the North’s human rights and North Korean defectors dwelling in Europe will talk about Pyongyang’s human rights scenario.
Households of victims of North Korea’s abduction and detention may even participate within the discussion board to name for worldwide assist for confirming the destiny of these kidnapped by the North and bringing them again house, the ministry mentioned. (Yonhap)
