Title 22 — Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-73

§7815 United Nations Commission on Human Rights

Title 22 › Chapter CHAPTER 85— - NORTH KOREAN HUMAN RIGHTS › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER I— - PROMOTING THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF NORTH KOREANS › § 7815

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Congress says the United Nations should play a major role in improving human rights in North Korea. It notes the UN Commission on Human Rights passed resolutions 2003/10 and 2004/13 and asked for a Special Rapporteur on North Korea. Congress also says the serious abuses there need country-specific reports from UN working groups and special rapporteurs on detention, disappearances, extrajudicial killings, the right to food, expression, religion, and violence against women.

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Title 22, §7815

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It is the sense of Congress that the United Nations has a significant role to play in promoting and improving human rights in North Korea, and that—

(1)the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) has taken positive steps by adopting Resolution 2003/10 and Resolution 2004/13 on the situation of human rights in North Korea, and particularly by requesting the appointment of a Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in North Korea; and

(2)the severe human rights violations within North Korea warrant country-specific attention and reporting by the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, the Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances, the Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary, or Arbitrary Executions, the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, the Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression, the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, and the Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women.

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22 U.S.C. § 7815

Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73