The anticipated opening of the UN Human Rights Office took place in Seoul's Jongo district today amid rising tensions between North and South Korea.
The new office is to function as “a field-based structure to strengthen monitoring and documentation of the situation of the human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea,” according to the 2014 report by the UN Commission of Inquiry (COI) on North Korea’s human rights violations.
The anticipated opening of the UN Human Rights Office took place in Seoul's Jongo district today amid rising tensions between North and South Korea.
The new office is to function as “a field-based structure to strengthen monitoring and documentation of the situation of the human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea,” according to the 2014 report by the UN Commission of Inquiry (COI) on North Korea’s human rights violations.
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