Commision of Inquiry appointed to investigate DPRK abuses

by admin
May 12, 2013

The United Nations Human Rights Council, announcedlast week the appointment of a commission of inquiry to investigate alleged  “systematic, widespread and grave violations of human rights” in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).

 

The three-member commission will  include Marzuki Darusman, the former Attorney General of Indonesia and the current UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in DPRK, Michael Donald Kirby, a retired judge from Australia; Sonja Biserko, founder and president of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia. 

 

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