Roseann Rife of Amnesty International said in a statement: “This is the first real test of the international community to show it is serious about acting on the Commission of Inquiry’s chilling findings. “It might be a long route but steps need to be taken.” “The fact that these violations are now deemed to be crimes against humanity triggers the responsibility of the international community to respond,” Julie de Rivero of Human Rights Watch told Reuters. The forum, which commissioned the unprecedented investigation a year ago, will decide on how to handle North Korea at a session lasting until March 28.Ĭampaigners want action. Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday. Michael Kirby, a former Australian judge who led the independent inquiry, will officially present the report to the U.N. They demanded closure of political prison camps believed to hold up to 120,000 people and action by the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Their findings, based on testimony from hundreds of victims, defectors and witnesses, were unequivocal. North Korean security chiefs and possibly even Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un should face international justice for ordering systematic torture, starvation and killings comparable with Nazi-era atrocities, U.N. 18, a gift made in December 2012 by survivor Kim Hye Sook, in this file picture taken in Geneva February 17, 2014. A United Nations Human Rights staff points to the title of a drawing describing North Korean labour camp no.

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