South Korea on Friday welcomed the recent adoption of a U.N. resolution condemning human rights violations in North Korea and urged the regime to immediately release South Koreans held in the country.

Mass starvation, hundreds of thousands of people ‘disappearing’, and horrific tales of widespread public execution, torture and slavery – all at the hands of the North Korean government have been ...

In the wake of the U.S. withdrawal of support, North Korean human rights activists may also soon experience a similar ...

Human Rights Watch welcomes the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea)’s acceptance ... which found widespread and systematic violations constituting crimes against humanity ...

South Korea committed to peaceful reunification through a ‘people-centered approach,’ says unification minister ...

The South Korean government’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission ... These rushed procedures, focusing on achieving targeted results, resulted in fundamental human rights violations in the process.

A recent study by an independent commission exposes decades of abuse in international adoption practices, with minors taken from their families and sent abroad by private agencies (which made huge ...

Greg Scarlatoiun, director of the US-based Committee for Human Rights in North Korea ... In 2023, South Korea's Ministry of Unification compiled reports of such violations in a mammoth 450 ...

The commission determined “the state violated the human rights of adoptees ... which constituted a violation of their rights under the South Korean constitution as well as international conventions.