Situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
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(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 to humanitarian aid, as well as
to critical data, and take measures to allow humanitarian agencies to secure the
impartial delivery of such aid to all parts of the country, including detention facilities,
on the basis of need in accordance with humanitarian principles, as it pledged to do,
to ensure access to adequate food 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
ensure 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; 10
(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;
16. Urges the Government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to
implement the recommendations of the commission of inquiry without delay;
17. Encourages all Member States, the General Assembly, the Human Rights
Council, the Office of the High Commissioner, the United Nations Secretariat,
relevant specialized agencies, regional intergovernmental organizations and for ums,
civil society organizations, foundations and engaged business enterprises and other
stakeholders towards which the commission of inquiry has directed recommendations
to implement or take forward those recommendations;
18. Encourages the United Nations system as a whole to continue to address
the grave human rights situation in the Democratic People ’s Republic of Korea in a
coordinated and unified manner;
19. Encourages the relevant United Nations programmes, funds, specialized
agencies and other related organizations to assist the Government of the Democratic
People’s Republic of Korea in the implementation of recommendations stemming
from the universal periodic review and from the report of the commission of inquiry;
20. Calls upon the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to engage
constructively with international interlocutors with a view to promoting concrete
improvements in the human rights situation on the ground, including through human
rights dialogues, official visits to the country that include adequate access to fully
assess human rights conditions, cooperation initiatives and more people -to-people
contact as a matter of priority;
21. Decides to continue its examination of the situation of human rights in the
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea at its seventy-third session, and to this end
requests the Secretary-General to submit a comprehensive report on the situation in
the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, and requests the Special Rapporteur to
continue to report his findings and recommendations, as well as to report on the
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