Over 20 North Korean human rights organizations and activists have called on Seoul to co-sponsor a U.N. resolution on Pyongyang’s human rights abuses, publishing an open letter to South Korean President Lee Jae-myung.

In the letter released on Tuesday, the signatories express concern that efforts to promote North Korean human rights appear to be retreating under the Lee administration.

They cite the unification ministry’s decision not to release its annual report on DPRK human rights abuses, its dismantling of a division that supports defector employment and the disbandingof the “North Korean human rights and humanitarian office” and “abductees response