Life and Human Rights Spring 2010.pdf

Vol.55 | Spring 2010

Life & Human Rights

in North Korea

Citizens’ Alliance for North Korean Human Rights (NKHR)

Life & Human Rights in North Korea

Citizens’ Alliance for North Korean Human Rights (NKHR)

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March 30, 2010

Contents

4 ESSAY

Improvement of North Korean Human Rights and the Roles of Lawyers

Benjamin H. Yoon

12 FORUM

North Korea and Applications of International Human Rights Law

Jae-Chun Won

39 WITNESS ACCOUNT

Unforgettable Misery in North Korea

Myungsook Lee

48 DOCUMENT

Memorandum of Understanding of the Cooperation for Improving Human Rights

in North Korea and Protecting the Rights of Victims

NKHR, Korean Bar Association

51 DOCUMENT

Draft Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

99 DOCUMENT

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and North Korea

North Korea Freedom Coalition

*This quarterly is published in Korean and English.

All expenses were paid by voluntary contributions from Korean citizens.

Essay

Improvement of North Korean

Human Rights

and the Roles of Lawyers *

The KBA and Korean lawyers’ active role in North Korean human rights are the

needs of the times and a historical calling.

I would like to express my deepest gratitude that the Korean Bar

Association (KBA) has made a huge step forward to improving

human rights situation in North Korea.

I, as a civic activist, would like to share my experience of working

with other congenial friends since 1970 with the vocation of human

rights activists. I was informed that my duty in this conference today

Benjamin H. Yoon

Chairman of the

Board, NKHR

is to introduce the history and the achievements of the North

Korean human rights movement, the issues facing the international

community, and the challenges for the future and that is what I am

going to outline.

It is commonly known that the international community begun

to pay attention to North Korean human rights in the mid/late

This is a Keynote Speech of

the 1st Conference on

Human Rights and

Environment of the Korean

Bar Association on

February 21~23, 2010.

1990s. However, the problem of the political prison camps in North

Korea was known to the international community at least 30 years

ago because ‘A Personal Account of the Experience of a Prisoner of

Conscience in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’ was

published by Amnesty International in 1979. Ali Lameda, a

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