Forced labour is widespread and institutionalized across the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), maintained through violence and recrimination, the UN human rights office OHCHR said on Tuesday.
In a report based on 183 interviews with victims and witnesses of forced labour who managed to escape DPRK and now live abroad, the UN human rights office OHCHR cited one person’s testimony that if a daily work quota was not met, workers would be beaten and have their food ration cut.
“These people are forced to work in intolerable conditions – often in dangerous sectors without pay, freedom of choice, the ability to leave, protection, medical care, time off, food, and shelter,” said OHCHR spokesperson Liz Throssell.
“They are placed under constant surveillance, regularly beaten, while women are exposed to continuing risks of sexual violence.”
Tankies do like to pretend that they don’t support fascism, but they really just ignore it and enjoy their brunches. Forced labour and other human rights violations in autocracies don’t effect them personally, therefore it doesn’t exist at all.
Maybe we should acknowledge that neither North Korea nor the USA are without fault and that in some aspects they are similar enough that they would be confused with each other in a blind test.
The main difference for the vast majority here is that public outrage and votes in elections for their respective governments won’t change a thing in North Korea.
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Tankies do like to pretend that they don’t support fascism, but they really just ignore it and enjoy their brunches. Forced labour and other human rights violations in autocracies don’t effect them personally, therefore it doesn’t exist at all.
Maybe we should acknowledge that neither North Korea nor the USA are without fault and that in some aspects they are similar enough that they would be confused with each other in a blind test.
The main difference for the vast majority here is that public outrage and votes in elections for their respective governments won’t change a thing in North Korea.