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Women’S Rights In The Dprk: Discrepancies Between International And Domestic Legal Instruments In Promoting Women’S Rights And The Reality Reflected By North Korean Defectors, Jina Yang
Cornell International Law Journal
It is commendable that the DPRK has ratified the CEDAW and has established legislative measures to protect women from violence and guarantee equal protection. However short of internationally accepted human rights standard the DPRK may fall, such actions show that the DPRK is nonetheless trying to be a responsible member of the international community. However, many findings show that women’s rights are far from reaching the international standards, because of patriarchal traditions that are entrenched to the North Korean society and the national institutions related to women’s rights, which are used to mobilize women to work for the state, rather …
Labor And Human Rights Conditions Of North Korean Workers Dispatched Overseas: A Look At The Dprk’S Exploitative Practices In Russia, Poland, And Mongolia, Teodora Gyupchanova
Labor And Human Rights Conditions Of North Korean Workers Dispatched Overseas: A Look At The Dprk’S Exploitative Practices In Russia, Poland, And Mongolia, Teodora Gyupchanova
Cornell International Law Journal
The Database Center for North Korean Human Rights (NKDB) has so far dedicated over three years to a focused research on the human rights conditions of North Korean laborers overseas. In this amount of time NKDB researchers have only managed to uncover a small fraction of the abuses endured by the North Korean citizens dispatched overseas to earn revenue for the North Korean regime. There is a lot of work that still needs to be done, which should involve investigation of the working and living conditions of North Korean laborers residing in different countries, seeking accountability from the entities, government …