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(e)
Allowing humanitarian organizations and humanitarian personnel to carry out
their activities in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea for the delivery of urgently
required humanitarian goods, such as food and agricultural supplies;
(f)
Cooperating with the international community to respond constructively to all
offers of assistance to ensure the timely delivery and equitable distribution of medicines and
sufficient vaccine doses, and recognizing the right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable
standard of physical and mental health and that access to vaccines is essential, including
through the entry of international staff and the prioritization of the shipment of life-saving
humanitarian assistance, in accordance with guidance and best practice provided by the
World Health Organization;
(g)
Halting immediately all human rights violations in the entire penal system and
in all places of detention, including in prison camps, re-education camps, labour training
camps, labour training centres, detention centres, holding centres and waiting rooms,
including the practice of forced labour and the use of torture and other cruel, inhuman or
degrading treatment or punishment and sexual and gender-based violence, dismantling all
political prison camps and releasing all political prisoners, immediately ceasing the practice
of the arbitrary and summary execution of persons in custody, including public executions,
immediately halting the arbitrary detention of forcibly repatriated citizens, including women
and girls, and ensuring that justice sector reforms provide for protections for fair trials and
due process;
(h)
Urgently resolving the issue of all persons who have been abducted or
otherwise forcibly disappeared and their descendants by clarifying their fate and
whereabouts, in good faith and with credibility and transparency, including by taking
concrete measures towards the realization of their immediate return, and engaging in
constructive dialogue with the parties concerned;
(i)
Ensuring the immediate resumption of the reunions of separated families
across the border, considering the advanced age of the family members concerned;
(j)
Abolishing immediately the practice of guilt-by-association punishment;
(k)
Ensuring that everyone within the territory of the Democratic People’s
Republic of Korea enjoys the right to liberty of movement and is free to leave the country,
including for the purpose of seeking asylum outside the Democratic People’s Republic of
Korea, without interference by the authorities of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea,
and also ensuring the enjoyment of the related right to be free from arbitrary detention,
including for women and girls who are forcibly repatriated;
(l)
Providing nationals of other States Members of the United Nations detained in
the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea with protections, including freedom of
communication with and access to consular officers, in accordance with the Vienna
Convention on Consular Relations, 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, and immediately releasing those who are arbitrarily detained in the
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea;
(m) Ensuring that citizens of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea who have
been expelled or repatriated to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea are able to return
in safety and dignity, are treated humanely and are not subjected to any kind of human rights
violation, including enforced disappearance, arbitrary execution, torture and other cruel,
inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, and sexual and gender-based violence, and
providing information on their status and treatment, in particular of women, children and
persons with disabilities in detention;
3.
Recalls General Assembly resolution 79/181, in which the Assembly
expressed its very serious concern about the widespread use of forced labour and violations
of workers’ rights, including the right to freedom of association and effective recognition of
the right to collective bargaining, the right to strike and the prohibition of the economic
exploitation of children and of any harmful or hazardous work of children, and about the
exploitation of workers sent abroad from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to work
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