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Date : January 25, 2018
CSW: Human rights in NK after a decade of change

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Human rights in North Korea after a decade of change

Monday 5th February, 5-7pm
Committee Room 12, Houses of Parliament

Speaking at the event will be:

       Lord Alton of Liverpool, All Party Parliamentary Group on North Korea
       Benedict Rogers, Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) East Asia Team Leader
       Jieun Baek, author of North Koreas Hidden Revolution: How the Information Underground is Transforming a Closed Society
       Timothy Cho, activist originally from North Korea

In 2007 Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) published a ground-breaking report on human rights violations in North Korea. The report, North Korea: A Case to Answer, A Call to Act, set out the case for urgent action to address human rights abuses and called on the UN General Assembly to establish a commission of inquiry (COI). Six years later, the UN commission of inquiry concluded that the gravity, scale and nature of violations in North Korea reveal a State that does not have any parallel in the contemporary world.

Ten years on from CSWs 2007 call for a COI, CSWs new report looks at what has changed in the last decade, both inside and outside the country. It covers several key areas, including changes in economic modes of survival, changes in information flows from outside North Korea, changes in defection patterns, freedom of __EXPRESSION__ and criticism of the state, and changes in human rights in law and practice.

The report finds that although the regime has not changed, the people have. In order to find new and effective ways of addressing the human rights situation in North Korea, stakeholders must understand these changes, and work together with North Koreans outside the country to bring about a brighter future.

To confirm your attendance please reply to Alice Braybrook at alicebraybrook@csw.org.uk

Fiona Bruce MP
Co-Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on North Korea






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