Pathology politics: Human rights and health in North Korea



Analysis Pathology politics: Human rights and health in North Korea Examining the connection between the DPRK's health crises and human rights violations Sandra Fahy October 4, 2016 SHARE COPY LINK FACEBOOK X LINKEDIN MASTODON North Korea by Roman Harak on 2010-09-05 07:14:35 In North Korea, the right to health is directly linked to politics. This is well illustrated in the rights of migrants and prisoners, where the connection between TB and multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) and human rights is an underreported – and underexamined – issue. The most egregious of these violations is the system of prison camps throughout the country, and there exists a clear link between imprisonment, migration and poor health in North Korea. North Korea’s system of prisons and the movement of people within and beyond its borders create double trouble for health and human rights particularly in terms of TB and © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. No part of this content may be reproduced, distributed, or used for commercial purposes without prior written permission from Korea Risk Group. Get the Daily Update Start your day with the North Korea stories that matter most – as selected by Trending

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Pathology politics: Human rights and health in North Korea

Examining the connection between the DPRK's health crises and human rights violations

Sandra Fahy October 4, 2016

Pathology politics: Human rights and health in North Korea

North Korea by Roman Harak on 2010-09-05 07:14:35

In North Korea, the right to health is directly linked to politics. This is well illustrated in the rights of migrants and prisoners, where the connection between TB and multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) and human rights is an underreported – and underexamined – issue.

The most egregious of these violations is the system of prison camps throughout the country, and there exists a clear link between imprisonment, migration and poor health in North Korea. North Korea’s system of prisons and the movement of people within and beyond its borders create double trouble for health and human rights particularly in terms of TB and

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Sandra Fahy

Sandra Fahy earned her PhD in Anthropology at SOAS, University of London in 2009. She held post-doctoral fellowships at EHESS in Paris and USC in Los Angeles, before taking up a position in Anthropology at Sophia University in 2013. Her first book Marching through Suffering: Loss and Survival in North Korea (Columbia University Press, 2015) examines how North Korean famine survivors understood the food crisis and concomitant political violence. In addition to several peer-review academic articles, she also has also written policy recommendation pieces on humanitarian preparedness for internal migration in North Korea (Asia Policy, 2015) and rights-based approaches to health in the DPRK (Harvard Journal of Health and Human Rights, 2016). She is finishing a second book about Human Rights and North Korea.

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