11 Good Friends (2007) • • Changes in North • Korean Society and • • Human Rights • • • • UN Special Rapporteur on • Human Rights in the Muntarbhorn Report • Democratic People’s Republic • of Korea (2008) • Right to food Right to livelihood activities Right to health care Right to freedom of thought Right to personal liberty Women’s rights Children’s rights, etc. (7 areas altogether) Human Rights and the development process Access to food and other necessities Rights and freedoms Flight and asylum Concerns regarding vulnerable groups Violence and human rights violations, etc. (6 areas altogether) 2) Research conducted by individual researchers Since we cannot introduce here all the studies and research that have been carried out by individual researchers up to now, we will analyze and review only those studies that are relevant for the topical area of this report, i.e. the human rights situation of North Korean women and North Korean refugee women. First of all, when compared with research conducted by institutions and groups, the most distinctive feature of research carried out by individual researchers consists in the latter’s far more detailed descriptions of the analysis and their more precise composition of categories of human rights violations. Let us first take a look at research that inquires into issues of human rights abuses faced by North Korean women after their escape from North Korea and throughout their stay in a third country, particularly China. The study by Paek Youngok (2002)9 examined the situation of North Korean refugee women living in China and ways to support them. She analyzed, more specifically, the reality of refugee women’s sexual exploitation and their wage exploitation in China, as well as cases of forced repatriation to North Korea. 9 Baek, Yeongok. 2002. Research on the Situation of North Korean Refugee Women in China and Measures to Support Them. Journal of North Korean Studies, Vol. 6, No. 1. Association of North Korean Studies.