Activists, officials and defectors highlighted human rights violations in North Korea at a high-level meeting of the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday, with many directly tying Pyongyang's ...

Congress should renew the North Korean Human Rights Act, but also urgently exert pressure on the State Department to preserve ...

A North Korean defector is filing civil and criminal charges against the country's leader Kim Jong Un for abuses she faced ...

Eritrea, often called "Africa’s North Korea," is one of the most brutal and isolated dictatorships in the world. With no ...

North Korea's embassy in London did not answer phone calls seeking comment. The government has in the past denied abuses and accused the U.N. and foreign countries of trying to use human rights as ...

North Korea’s U.N. Ambassador Kim Song called the allegations that his country violates human rights “a burlesque of intrigue and fabrication" and insisted that tens of millions of North ...

This week, the United Nations General Assembly met for its first-ever public high-level session devoted to North Korea's human rights situation. The meeting highlighted Pyongyang’s brutal ...

South Korea’s North Korean Human Rights Act makes a focus on human rights in Kim Jong-Un’s dictatorship a priority for Seoul, providing humanitarian assistance, support for documentation of human ...

Despite years of delays and a grand opening ceremony, the world's most controversial Benidorm-inspired seaside resort has ...

The South Korean government’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission admitted on Wednesday that the government had violated fundamental human rights in the intercountry adoption process due to a lack of ...

North Korea’s U.N. Ambassador Kim Song called the allegations that his country violates human rights “a burlesque of intrigue and fabrication” and insisted that tens of millions of North ...