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(c)
Violations of all aspects of the right to freedom of movement, including forced
assignment to State-designated places of residence and employment, often based on the
songbun system, and denial of the right to leave one’s own country;
(d)
Systematic, widespread and grave violations of the right to food and related
aspects of the right to life, exacerbated by widespread hunger and malnutrition;
(e)
Violations of the right to life and acts of extermination, murder, enslavement,
torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment, imprisonment, rape
and other grave forms of sexual and gender-based violence and persecution on any grounds,
including on the grounds of political opinion, religion or belief and sexual orientation and
gender identity in political prison camps and ordinary prisons, and the widespread practice
of collective punishment, with harsh sentences imposed on innocent individuals;
(f)
Persistent violations of all rights of women and girls, who remain the most
vulnerable to trafficking for the purposes of prostitution, domestic servitude or early, child
and forced marriage, and of other forms of sexual and gender-based violence;
(g)
The enforced and involuntary disappearance of persons by arrest, detention or
abduction against their will, the refusal to disclose the fate and whereabouts of the persons
concerned, and the refusal to acknowledge the deprivation of their liberty, which places
persons subjected thereto outside the protection of the law and which has had the effect of
inflicting severe suffering on them and their families;
(h)
Systematic abduction, denial of repatriation and subsequent enforced
disappearance of persons, including those from other countries, on a large scale and as a
matter of State policy;
2.
Urges the Government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to
acknowledge its crimes and human rights violations and abuses in and outside of the country,
and to take immediately all steps necessary to end all such crimes and violations through,
inter alia, the implementation of relevant recommendations in the report of the commission
of inquiry and General Assembly resolution 74/166, including, but not limited to, the
following steps:
(a)
Ensuring the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion or belief, 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 women’s and girls’ full enjoyment of human rights and the protection of women
from sexual and 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 humanitarian access to all
people in need and 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 other cruel, inhuman and
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, 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;
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(g)
Ensuring the reunion of separated families across the border;
(h)
Abolishing immediately the practice of guilt-by-association punishment;
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