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How the new UN human rights envoy can make a difference for North Koreans
Elizabeth Salmón will need to both engage Pyongyang and hold the regime accountable to succeed in difficult role
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The U.N. Human Rights Council has just approved its fourth special rapporteur on the human rights situation in the DPRK: Dr. Elizabeth Salmón. The first woman to be chosen for the position, the Council’s President selected her from a list of eight applicants ranked by a group of ambassadors from different geographic regions. Salmón will begin Aug. 1 and will serve for a maximum of six years without remuneration. During that time she should emerge as the principal voice on the international stage for North Korea’s human rights situation.
Like her predecessors, Salm
