A/HRC/RES/40/20
(a)
Ensuring the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, and the
rights to freedom of opinion, expression and association, both online and offline, including
by permitting the establishment of independent newspapers and other media;
(b)
Ending discrimination against citizens, including State-sponsored
discrimination based on the songbun system, and taking immediate steps to ensure gender
equality and to protect women from gender-based violence;
(c)
Ensuring the right to freedom of movement, including the freedom to choose
one’s place of residence and employment;
(d)
Promoting equal access to food, including through full transparency
regarding the provision of humanitarian assistance so that such assistance is genuinely
provided to vulnerable persons, including individuals in detention;
(e)
Halting immediately all human rights violations relating to prison camps,
including the practice of forced labour and the use of torture 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, and
ensuring that justice sector reforms provide protections for fair trials and due process;
(f)
Resolving the issue of all persons who have been abducted or otherwise
forcibly disappeared and their descendants, in a transparent manner, including by ensuring
their immediate return;
(g)
Ensuring the reunion of separated families across the border;
(h)
Abolishing immediately the practice of guilt-by-association punishment;
(i)
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;
(j)
Providing nationals of other countries 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;
3.
Recalls General Assembly resolution 73/180, in which the Assembly
expressed its very serious concern at the 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, as well as the exploitation of workers sent abroad
from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to work under conditions that reportedly
amount to forced labour;
4.
Also recalls paragraph 11 of Security Council resolution 2371 (2017),
paragraph 17 of Council resolution 2375 (2017) and, in particular, paragraph 8 of Council
resolution 2397 (2017), in which the Council decided that Member States shall repatriate to
the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea all nationals of the Democratic People’s
Republic of Korea earning income in their jurisdictions and all Democratic People’s
Republic of Korea government safety oversight attachés monitoring Democratic People’s
Republic of Korea workers abroad immediately but no later than 24 months from 22
December 2017, unless the particular Member State determines that the national is a
national of that Member State or is prohibited from repatriation under applicable national
and international law, including international refugee law and international human rights
law, the Agreement between the United Nations and the United States of America
regarding the Headquarters of the United Nations or the Convention on the Privileges and
Immunities of the United Nations, and urges the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to
promote, respect and protect the human rights of workers, including workers repatriated to
the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea;
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