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Earlier this year, A Woman's Voice invited another NGO, Jubilee Campaign, to attend the UN's Commission on Human Rights and consequently they were able to co-ordinate a resolution condemning human rights abuses in North Korea. Jubilee vigorously lobbied for the UN to take up the plight of North Korean refugees who were being forced back to that country by China.

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS Fifty-ninth session Agenda item 9    QUESTION OF THE VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND FUNDAMENTAL                                  FREEDOMS IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD         Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria*, Cyprus*, Czech Republic*, Denmark*, Estonia*,         Finland*, France, Germany, Greece*, Hungary*, Iceland*, Ireland, Italy*,         Latvia*, Lithuania*, Luxembourg*, Malta*, Monaco*, Netherlands*, Poland,         Portugal*, Romania*, Slovakia*, Slovenia*, Spain*, Sweden and         United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: draft resolution        2003/… Situation of human rights in the Democratic People´s Republic of Korea         The Commission on Human Rights,         Reaffirming that all States Members of the United Nations have the obligation to promote and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms and to implement the obligations they have assumed under the various international instruments,         Mindful that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a Party to the International Covenant on Human Rights, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, * In accordance with rule 69, paragraph 3, of the rules of procedure of the functional commissions of the Economic and Social Council. GE.03-13364 (E) 150403 Take me to page 2

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