Human rights are about 'having a dream,' North Korean defectors say at UN panel discussion in Seoul

North Korean defectors underscored that human rights weren’t an abstract ideal but the ability to speak, make choices and imagine a future in everyday life during a panel in Seoul on Monday to mark International Human Rights Day.

2025-12-15

Lee nominates human rights lawyer as chief state auditor

President Lee Jae Myung has nominated human rights lawyer Kim Ho-cheol as the new chief of the Board of Audit and Inspection (BAI), the presidential office said Sunday.

2025-12-07

Britain reviews human rights laws in major shake-up of asylum policy

Britain will overhaul its approach to human rights laws to make it easier to deport migrants who arrive in the country illegally as part of a major shake-up of asylum policy to be set out on Monday.

2025-11-17

U.S. lawmaker reintroduces North Korean human rights reauthorization act

A U.S. lawmaker has reintroduced a bill to reauthorize the North Korean Human Rights Act aimed at promoting rights and freedom in the reclusive state, Congress's website showed Monday, as the authorization of the act expired in 2022.

2025-11-11

'Koreans know what it means to be a refugee,' says UNHCR chief in Seoul

What Korea and Japan need is a sound asylum system allowing refugees to become self-reliant and gain better access to social resources and opportunities, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said.

2025-10-21

Korea renews call for Japan to squarely acknowledge wartime sexual slavery

Korea has renewed its call for Japan to squarely acknowledge its wartime sexual enslavement of Korean women during World War II in a letter to the U.N. human rights body, the document showed Tuesday.

2025-09-16

Unification Ministry not to publicly release annual report on human rights in North

The government will continue compiling its annual report on North Korean human rights conditions but will halt its public release this year, a Unification Ministry official said Tuesday.

2025-08-19

Gov't weighs scrapping annual report on North Korean human rights

The Unification Ministry is weighing a decision to discontinue its annual report on North Korean human rights conditions, an official said Tuesday, in what appears to be a conciliatory gesture to improve frayed ties with Pyongyang.

2025-08-12

FIFA moves ahead with new human rights strategy for World Cup games, but advocates are skeptical

Human rights scandals have marred World Cup tournaments for years, but FIFA is testing a new protocol requiring all host committees to develop action plans to protect human rights for the 2026 games in North America.