Oct. 27 (UPI) --At a time when authoritarian regimes are advancing, democracies are wavering and human rights are increasingly treated as optional rather than essential, one small organization ...

North Korean defectors underscored that human rights weren’t an abstract ideal but the ability to speak, make choices and imagine a future in everyday life during a panel in Seoul on Monday to mark ...

It’s been ten years since a United Nations report concluded that North Korea committed crimes against humanity. But this week, a U.N. official told Reuters that many abuses continue and things have ...

Security experts, United Nations officials, and congressional leaders have for years insisted that in dealing with North Korea, its government’s systemic human rights abuses need to be addressed ...

South Korea has joined a United Nations (UN) General Assembly resolution as a co-sponsor condemning North Korea’s human rights violations, shown here. [SCREEN CAPTURE] South Korea has joined a United ...

A human rights organization documents the journey of two minors living in occupied Ukraine to a North Korean camp ...

A human rights campaigner calls the alleged transfer of two Ukrainian children to a North Korean camp a "war crime," accusing Moscow of exploiting minors for propaganda and alliance-building.

South Korea is a confident democracy. It should act like one. That means it must not fear information about North Korea. It ...

The European Union Delegation in Seoul hosted an event to mark International Human Rights Day in Seoul, in partnership with ...

(Seoul) – South Korea’s new government should adopt measures to address human rights problems in the country and abroad, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to President Lee Jae-myung. It is ...

SEOUL, June 20 (Reuters) - A decade after a landmark U.N. report concluded North Korea committed crimes against humanity, a U.N. official investigating rights in the isolated state told Reuters many ...