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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is seen delivering a virtual address to the UN Human Rights Council from Washington on Tuesday in this image captured from the State Department website. (Department of State) |
WASHINGTON — Human rights crises in countries like North Korea require efforts by the United Nations and its member states to address them, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday while urging the community international community to condemn what it called the illegal and unprovoked invasion of Russia. Ukraine.
“While we are focused on the crisis in Ukraine, it is far from the only part of the world where the Council’s attention is needed,” Blinken said during a virtual meeting with the Human Rights Council. United Nations man.
“The human rights crises in Burma, Cuba, DPRK, Iran, Nicaragua, South Sudan, Syria, Venezuela and Yemen, among others, also require the continued attention of this council. “, he added, referring to North Korea by its official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
The United States regularly denounces what it calls “gross” human rights violations in North Korea.
Washington named the North Korean regime as one of 11 governments with a human trafficking policy or pattern in its annual human trafficking report, released in July 2021.
North Korea was also named as one of 10 states violating religious freedom in November. (Yonhap)
