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Saturday 26 November 2011
North Korea urged to improve human rights record
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Marzuki Darusman, U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in North Korea
Reuters/Jo Yong-Hak
By Jan van der Made

Marzuki Darusman, a UN envoy, urged North Korea on Friday to end torture and other, degrading" treatment of detainees. Meanwhile, United Nations agencies say some six million North Korean people urgently need food. The South provided some 400,000 tons of rice a year until relations worsened when a conservative administration took office in Seoul in 2008.
 

tags : Human rights - North Korea
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