https://padlet.com/avmartinez18/e5t47et93x9k Next Steps for Human Rights in North Korea - article en-us 2016-11-18 02:58:06 UTC 2026-01-10 04:37:40 UTC hello@padlet.com avmartinez18 https://padlet.com/avmartinez18/e5t47et93x9k/wish/138605423 2016-11-18 03:01:26 UTC https://padlet.com/avmartinez18/e5t47et93x9k/wish/138605423 avmartinez18 https://padlet.com/avmartinez18/e5t47et93x9k/wish/138605506 2016-11-18 03:03:01 UTC https://padlet.com/avmartinez18/e5t47et93x9k/wish/138605506 avmartinez18 https://padlet.com/avmartinez18/e5t47et93x9k/wish/138854721 "Human rights abuse is...linked to... stability of ... Kim regime."]]> 2016-11-19 03:21:39 UTC https://padlet.com/avmartinez18/e5t47et93x9k/wish/138854721 avmartinez18 https://padlet.com/avmartinez18/e5t47et93x9k/wish/138854797 "commission estimates that there are currently between 80,000 to 120,000 individuals imprisoned in political prison camps."]]> 2016-11-19 03:25:47 UTC https://padlet.com/avmartinez18/e5t47et93x9k/wish/138854797 avmartinez18 https://padlet.com/avmartinez18/e5t47et93x9k/wish/138854859 As a result of not being considered under the protections of the law, many women were/are raped or sexually exploited in order to receive food from guards, and if a women becomes pregnant in prison she is usually forced to abort the child and if she gives birth in prison she is either forced to kill the child or watch guards kill the child.]]> 2016-11-19 03:28:39 UTC https://padlet.com/avmartinez18/e5t47et93x9k/wish/138854859 avmartinez18 https://padlet.com/avmartinez18/e5t47et93x9k/wish/139004746 "The U.S. should develop long-term whole-of government plans with South Korea to effectively assimilate North Korean defectors... [and] should commission a study of defector assimilation and use it to inform policy and provision of humanitarian assistance following a North Korean collapse."]]> 2016-11-21 07:09:29 UTC https://padlet.com/avmartinez18/e5t47et93x9k/wish/139004746 avmartinez18 https://padlet.com/avmartinez18/e5t47et93x9k/wish/139004896 "South Korea should concurrently launch a comprehensive study of Hanawon to assess whether the needs of defectors are being met by Hanawon programming...[and] should pass its own North Korea Human Rights Act.  Passage of the NKHRA would send a strong message that the Republic of Korea government actively opposes the human rights abuses committed by the Kim regime."]]> 2016-11-21 07:11:40 UTC https://padlet.com/avmartinez18/e5t47et93x9k/wish/139004896 avmartinez18 https://padlet.com/avmartinez18/e5t47et93x9k/wish/139005112 "The U.S. and South Korea should use every opportunity to get outside information into North Korea. Providing information to North Koreans "could influence political change in North Korea that leads to respect for basic rights. They "should [also] pressure China, Laos, and others to discontinue the forcible repatriation of North Korean defectors.""]]> 2016-11-21 07:14:07 UTC https://padlet.com/avmartinez18/e5t47et93x9k/wish/139005112 avmartinez18 https://padlet.com/avmartinez18/e5t47et93x9k/wish/139005363 "The U.S. should partner with the NGO community to streamline assistance for defectors...The U.S. has funds through the NKHRA that it could allocate to better
support NGO programming for North Korean
defectors and ensure that current efforts are
effective rather than duplicative."]]> 2016-11-21 07:16:59 UTC https://padlet.com/avmartinez18/e5t47et93x9k/wish/139005363 avmartinez18 https://padlet.com/avmartinez18/e5t47et93x9k/wish/139005448 "The U.S. should implement stronger sanctions
to hold North Korea accountable for its human
rights violations...[and]  identify and sanction Kim
Jong-un and other known top officials in the
North Korean government for their involvement
in crimes against humanity."]]> 2016-11-21 07:17:52 UTC https://padlet.com/avmartinez18/e5t47et93x9k/wish/139005448