Situation of human rights in the Democratic
People’s Republic of Korea
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access to, consular officers in accordance with the Vienna Convention on Consular
Relations, 26 to which the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is a party, and any
other necessary arrangements to confirm their status and to communicate with their
families;
(h) To extend its full cooperation to the Special Rapporteur, including by
granting him full, free and unimpeded access to the Democratic People ’s Republic of
Korea, and to other special procedures of the Human Rights Council as well as to
other United Nations human rights mechanisms so that a full needs assessment of the
human rights situation may be made;
(i) To engage in technical cooperation activities in the field of human rights
with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and he r Office,
including the field-based structure in the region, as pursued by the High
Commissioner in recent years, with a view to improving the situation of human rights
in the country;
(j) To implement the accepted recommendations stemming from the univer sal
periodic reviews and to consider positively those recommendations which are still
under consideration from the third review cycle, and to submit a midterm voluntary
report to detail progress on the implementation of recommendations accepted from
the third cycle;
(k) To become a member of the International Labour Organization, to enact
legislation and adopt practices to comply with international labour standards and to
consider ratifying all the relevant conventions, in particular the core labour
conventions of the International Labour Organization;
(l) To continue and reinforce its cooperation with United Nations
humanitarian agencies;
(m) To ensure full, safe and unhindered access of persons in vulnerable
situations to humanitarian aid, and take measures to allow humanitarian agencies to
survey the needs of persons belonging to vulnerable groups, to obtain critical baseline
data and to enable the unhindered and impartial delivery of such humanitarian aid to
all parts of the country, on the basis of need in accordance with humanitarian
principles, as it pledged to do, to furthermore ensure access to adequate basic services
and implement more effective food security and nutrition policies, including through
sustainable agriculture, sound food production and distribution measures and the
allocation of more funds to the food sector, and to allow adequate monitoring of
humanitarian assistance;
(n) To further improve cooperation with the United Nations country team
members and development agencies so that they can directly contribute to improving
the living conditions of the civilian population, including progress towards the
achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals; 12
(o) To consider ratifying and acceding to the remaining international human
rights treaties, which would enable a dialogue with the human rights treaty bodies, to
resume reporting to monitoring bodies on treaties to which it is a party, to participate
meaningfully in treaty body reviews, and to give consideration to the concluding
observations of such bodies in order to improve the human rights situation in the country;
18. Urges the Government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to
implement the recommendations of the commission of inquiry, the group of
independent experts, and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for
Human Rights without delay;
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