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Dying for rights putting North Korea's human rights abuses on the record Sandra Fahy

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: New York Columbia University Press 2019.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 374 pages) illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780231548991
Other title:
  • Putting North Korea's human rights abuses on the record
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • JC599 .D956 2019
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Contents:
1. The history of human rights violations in North Korea -- 2. Famine and hunger -- 3. Discrimination and religious persecution -- 4. Information control -- 5. Forbidding the foreign -- 6. Control of movement -- 7. Prison camps, torture, and execution -- 8. Exporting rights violations -- 9. From the mouths of foreign nationals -- 10. The state news strikes back -- 11. North Korea's rhetoric of denial at the United Nations -- 12. Broadcasting denial -- Conclusion : Ascent
Summary: North Korea's human rights violations are unparalleled in the contemporary world. In Dying for Rights, Sandra Fahy provides the definitive account of the abuses committed by the North Korean state, domestically and internationally, from its founding to the present. Dying for Rights scrutinizes North Korea's treatment of its own people as well as foreign nationals, how violations committed by the state spread into the international realm, and how North Korea uses its state media and presence at the United Nations. Fahy meticulously documents the extent of arbitrary detention, torture, executions, and the network of prison camps throughout the country. The book details systematic and widespread violations of freedom of speech and of movement, freedom from discrimination, and the rights to food and to life. Fahy weaves together public and private testimonies from North Koreans resettled abroad, as well as NGO reports, the stories and facts brought to light by the United Nations Commission of Inquiry into North Korea, and North Korea's own state media, to share powerful personal narratives of human rights abuses. A compassionate yet objective investigation into the factors that sustain and perpetuate the flouting of basic rights, Dying for Rights reveals the profound culpability of the North Korean state in the systematic denial of human dignity
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Introduction : Descent -- 1. The history of human rights violations in North Korea -- 2. Famine and hunger -- 3. Discrimination and religious persecution -- 4. Information control -- 5. Forbidding the foreign -- 6. Control of movement -- 7. Prison camps, torture, and execution -- 8. Exporting rights violations -- 9. From the mouths of foreign nationals -- 10. The state news strikes back -- 11. North Korea's rhetoric of denial at the United Nations -- 12. Broadcasting denial -- Conclusion : Ascent

North Korea's human rights violations are unparalleled in the contemporary world. In Dying for Rights, Sandra Fahy provides the definitive account of the abuses committed by the North Korean state, domestically and internationally, from its founding to the present. Dying for Rights scrutinizes North Korea's treatment of its own people as well as foreign nationals, how violations committed by the state spread into the international realm, and how North Korea uses its state media and presence at the United Nations. Fahy meticulously documents the extent of arbitrary detention, torture, executions, and the network of prison camps throughout the country. The book details systematic and widespread violations of freedom of speech and of movement, freedom from discrimination, and the rights to food and to life. Fahy weaves together public and private testimonies from North Koreans resettled abroad, as well as NGO reports, the stories and facts brought to light by the United Nations Commission of Inquiry into North Korea, and North Korea's own state media, to share powerful personal narratives of human rights abuses. A compassionate yet objective investigation into the factors that sustain and perpetuate the flouting of basic rights, Dying for Rights reveals the profound culpability of the North Korean state in the systematic denial of human dignity

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