N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Allow all persons of foreign origin who have been abducted, as well as their descendants, to return freely to their countries of origin
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Enforced disappearances
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Abolish its political prison camps, where grave human rights violations are ongoing, and release all political prisoners
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Dismantle the "inminban" neighbourhood watches, and citizen registration and denunciation systems
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Justice
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Close immediately all political prison camps and unconditionally release all political prisoners detained
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Immediately close down all political prison camps, and release all prisoners of conscience, including relatives being held on the basis of guilt-by association
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Acknowledge the existence of human rights violations taking place in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and act immediately on the recommendations of the COI
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Justice
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Set a specific timeframe and take concrete action to resolve the issue of abductions as soon as possible, including by repatriating the abductees
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Enforced disappearances
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Immediately dismantle all political prison camps and abolish the practice of forced labour
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Labour rights
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Acknowledge the human rights violations in the country and take steps to end such violations and abuses by implementing the recommendations in the COI's final report and cooperating with the Special Rapporteur and OHCHR
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Justice
- Special procedures
- Technical assistance and cooperation
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Cooperate fully with the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and other United Nations human rights mechanisms and grant them unrestricted access to the country
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Special procedures
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take immediate measures to end discrimination against its citizens for the alleged sins of their grandparents under the songbun system, ensure gender equality in practice, and address violence against women and girls
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Justice
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement the recommendations of the COI
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Justice
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Close down the political prison camps and release all political prisoners
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Cooperate with the Special Rapporteur, in particular to allow him immediate and unrestricted access to the country, camps of ordinary prisoners and political prisoners, and implement the recommendations of the COI
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Special procedures
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Provide international humanitarian organisations and human rights monitors access to the camps and their surviving victims
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Provide a fair public trial to all political prisoners and prohibit and penalize torture in the detention centers
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Justice
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure access of the International Humanitarian Organization to the prison camps and to other detention centers
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Grant free and unfettered access to the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and to all special procedures mandate-holders
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Special procedures
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
End immediately reprisals against persons on the basis of "guilt by association" and the collective punishment of families of convicted criminals
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Justice
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Provide the families of those abducted with full information on their fate and whereabouts
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Enforced disappearances
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Cooperate fully with the human rights mechanisms of the United Nations and with the special procedures of the Human Rights Council, including with the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Special procedures
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Fully cooperate with all the United Nations human rights mechanisms and special procedures, particularly the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and engage with OHCHR
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Special procedures
- Technical assistance and cooperation
- Treaty bodies
- UPR process
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Abolish all unconstitutional discriminatory practices connected with the songbun system and terminate the punishment based on collective guilt
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Justice
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Cooperate fully with the COI as well as with the United Nations special procedures and with the humanitarian international organizations
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Justice
- Special procedures
- Technical assistance and cooperation
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Acknowledge the existence of political prison camps, and take immediate steps to close them
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Guarantee the right to food for its citizens on an equal basis and put an end to discriminatory food rationing as a tool to control and exert pressure on its people
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Right to food
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Heed the calls of the COI and Human Rights Council resolution 25/25 to end human rights violations, in particular, those that amount to crimes against humanity, and bring perpetrators to justice
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Justice
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Make all the necessary political reforms in order to ensure the emergence of a government through free and fair elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Elections
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Immediately dismantle all political prison camps, release all political prisoners, and institute protections against arbitrary detention that guarantee due process and fair trial
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Justice
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Stop violating the right to food and using starvation, hunger and malnutrition as a means to ensure its control over the population
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Right to food
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019