Title 22, Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-102
§7815 United Nations Commission on Human Rights
Title 22 › CHAPTER 85 — NORTH KOREAN HUMAN RIGHTS › SUBCHAPTER I — PROMOTING THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF NORTH KOREANS › § 7815
Summary
Congress says the United Nations should help improve human rights in North Korea. It notes the UN Commission on Human Rights adopted Resolutions 2003/10 and 2004/13 and asked for a Special Rapporteur. Congress also says the serious abuses need country-specific reports from UN experts and groups on detention; disappearances; extrajudicial executions; the right to food; free 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
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102