Introduction
National Human Rights Commission of Korea Annual Report 2016
Korean Human Rights Forum on timely topics, including arrivals of overseas North Korean
workers and defectors.
Efforts were also made to help North Korean defectors settle down in their new communities
in Korea. These include making recommendations to enhance public awareness of defectors and
institutional improvements to eliminate discrimination against them, policy reviews to promote
defectors’right to work, and surveys of defector’s human rights awareness.
The Commission interviewed newly arriving North Korean defectors to accumulate data on
human rights infringements in North Korea, and published a lexicon on North Korean human
rights in Korean and in English to support relevant research and activities.
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