Sixty-seventh session
Item 70 (c) of the provisional agenda
Promotion and protection of human rights: human rights
situations and reports of special rapporteurs and representatives
Summary
The present report is submitted pursuant to General Assembly resolution 66/174 on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. It provides an overview of the human rights and humanitarian situation in the country from September 2011 to August 2012. The report also provides information on the level of engagement of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea with the United Nations human rights mechanisms during the reporting period.
The report refers to humanitarian assistance programmes of United Nations entities, such as the World Food Programme, the World Health Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the United Nations Children’s Fund and the United Nations Development Programme. The report briefly touches upon the work of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in monitoring the protection concerns of persons fleeing the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
Finally, the report contains recommendations, addressed to the Government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the international community, aimed at improving the human rights and humanitarian situation.