The UN COI report on North Korea, five years later - NKNews Podcast Ep.102 Michael Kirby discusses what has and hasn't changed in DPRK human rights since the landmark document in 2014 00:0000:00 12 Nov 2019 Last updated at 01:57 Tags #foreign-relations#human-security-human-rights The United Nation’s Report of the Commission of Inquiry (COI) on Human Rights in North Korea was a landmark document that detailed and codified the horrors the Kim Jong Un regime and its forebears inflict upon its people. Crimes against humanity, torture, rape, religious and racial persecution – these are but some of the gross human rights abuses that the North Korean people must endure on an everyday basis. Michael Kirby led the commission and report, and he joins the NK News podcast to discuss his findings five years later, how things have changed (and haven’t), and what mechanisms exist to place human rights at the center of engagement with North Korea. The Honourable Michael Kirby is a retired judge, formerly a Justice of the High Court of Australia serving from 1996 to 2009. In 2013 he was appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council to lead an inquiry into human rights abuses in the DPRK.

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The UN COI report on North Korea, five years later - NKNews Podcast Ep.102

Michael Kirby discusses what has and hasn't changed in DPRK human rights since the landmark document in 2014

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12 Nov 2019 Last updated at 01:57

The United Nation’s Report of the Commission of Inquiry (COI) on Human Rights in North Korea was a landmark document that detailed and codified the horrors the Kim Jong Un regime and its forebears inflict upon its people.

Crimes against humanity, torture, rape, religious and racial persecution – these are but some of the gross human rights abuses that the North Korean people must endure on an everyday basis.

Michael Kirby led the commission and report, and he joins the NK News podcast to discuss his findings five years later, how things have changed (and haven’t), and what mechanisms exist to place human rights at the center of engagement with North Korea.

The Honourable Michael Kirby is a retired judge, formerly a Justice of the High Court of Australia serving from 1996 to 2009. In 2013 he was appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council to lead an inquiry into human rights abuses in the DPRK.

Michael Kirby discusses what has and hasn't changed in DPRK human rights since the landmark document in 2014



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00:0012 Nov 2019 Last updated at 01:57






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The United Nation’s Report of the Commission of Inquiry (COI) on Human Rights in North Korea was a landmark document that detailed and codified the horrors the Kim Jong Un regime and its forebears inflict upon its people.


Crimes against humanity, torture, rape, religious and racial persecution – these are but some of the gross human rights abuses that the North Korean people must endure on an everyday basis.


Michael Kirby led the commission and report, and he joins the NK News podcast to discuss his findings five years later, how things have changed (and haven’t), and what mechanisms exist to place human rights at the center of engagement with North Korea.


The Honourable Michael Kirby is a retired judge, formerly a Justice of the High Court of Australia serving from 1996 to 2009. In 2013 he was appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council to lead an inquiry into human rights abuses in the DPRK.