Number | Date added | Template | Cycle | Session | State under Review | Recommendation | Recommending State | Action Category | Response | Issues |
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126.2.2 | May 1, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 33 - May 2019 | Consider ratifying other core human rights instruments, to which it has not become a party | 3 - Considering action | Supported |
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126.2.1 | May 1, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 33 - May 2019 | Consider ratifying the international human rights instruments to which it is not yet a party | 3 - Considering action | Supported |
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127.22 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 33 - May 2019 | Reconsider the role of Christianity in the ideology and society of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea within the songbun system, in order to see the positive contributions of Christianity to the economic, social and political developments in the context of socialism | 3 - Considering action | Noted |
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127.3 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 33 - May 2019 | Consider allowing access to the United Nations special procedures requesting to visit the country, including the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea | 3 - Considering action | Noted |
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126.192 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 33 - May 2019 | Consider reviewing its national laws on child protection, in order to cover all children under the age of 18 years and raise the minimum age of marriage to 18 years | 3 - Considering action | Supported |
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126.183 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 33 - May 2019 | Review laws, including the Law on the Protection and Promotion of Women’s Rights, to include definitions of violence against women, including rape and trafficking of women | 3 - Considering action | Noted |
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126.181 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 33 - May 2019 | Review the Law on the Protection and Promotion of Women’s Rights to ensure that all forms of gender-based violence against women in all spheres are criminalized | 3 - Considering action | Supported |
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126.138 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 33 - May 2019 | Review the legislation and national policies in order to adapt them to the standards of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, in particular with regard to freedom of expression and access to information | 3 - Considering action | Supported |
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126.134 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 33 - May 2019 | Consider adopting policies to combat trafficking in persons, especially women and children | 3 - Considering action | Supported |
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126.123 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 33 - May 2019 | Reconsider abolishing the death penalty | 3 - Considering action | Noted |
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126.115 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 33 - May 2019 | Reduce the offences punishable by the death penalty and provide official figures regarding death sentences and executions, and consider introducing a moratorium on the death penalty | 3 - Considering action | Noted |
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126.99 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 33 - May 2019 | Consider increasing budget allocations to the health, education and social sectors, within the Five-Year Strategy for National Economic Development, to ensure improved access to services in rural areas | 3 - Considering action | Supported |
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126.74 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 33 - May 2019 | Undertake a comprehensive review of the national legislation with a view to further strengthening the legal framework for the promotion and protection of human rights as required by the international human rights treaties to which the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is a party | 3 - Considering action | Supported |
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126.69 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 33 - May 2019 | Consider seeking technical assistance from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights | 3 - Considering action | Noted |
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126.62 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 33 - May 2019 | Consider seeking technical cooperation and capacity-building support from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and other international bodies in the process of implementing the law on the protection of the rights of the child | 3 - Considering action | Supported |
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126.52 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 33 - May 2019 | Consider extending a standing invitation to all special procedure mandate holders of the Human Rights Council | 3 - Considering action | Noted |
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126.23 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 33 - May 2019 | Consider ratifying the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment | 3 - Considering action | Noted |
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126.7 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 33 - May 2019 | Consider acceding to the core international human rights treaties to which it is not yet a party | 3 - Considering action | Supported |
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126.3 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 33 - May 2019 | Consider ratifying the main international human rights instruments to which it is not yet a party | 3 - Considering action | Supported |
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126.1 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 33 - May 2019 | Continue to consider the possibility of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea acceding to other international human rights treaties | 3 - Considering action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 19 - May 2014 | Study and start implementing the recommendations included in the report of the COI | 3 - Considering action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 19 - May 2014 | Consider constructively the recommendations made during this UPR and made by the commission of inquiry on human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (COI) | 3 - Considering action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 19 - May 2014 | Consider further increase in state expenditures on the health sector with a view to meeting the demand for medical supplies, including essential drugs | 3 - Considering action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 19 - May 2014 | Consider putting a moratorium on capital punishment with the view to its ultimate abolishment | 3 - Considering action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 19 - May 2014 | Consider further legislative and administrative measures to encourage the increase of women's participation in public life | 3 - Considering action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 19 - May 2014 | Consider the request of the Special Rapporteur on the right to food to visit the country | 3 - Considering action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 19 - May 2014 | Review seriously all the comments and recommendations made during the review and clearly indicate in due time which recommendations it accepts and how it plans to implement them | 3 - Considering action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 19 - May 2014 | Consider promptly joining the International Labour Organization | 3 - Considering action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 19 - May 2014 | Consider establishing an NHRI in compliance with the Paris Principles | 3 - Considering action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 19 - May 2014 | Consider the possibility of acceding to ICERD and CAT | 3 - Considering action | Noted |
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