Inquiry on Crimes Against Humanity in North Korean Political Prisons

This Inquiry, which was organized by the War Crimes Committee of the International Bar Association (“IBA”) and supported by the IBA’s North America Office and numerous partner organizations, is an unofficial follow-up to the United Nations (“UN”) Human Rights Council’s Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the Democratic Republic of Korea (“Commission”). The Commission, chaired by former justice of the High Court of Australia, Michael Kirby, was charged with investigating “the systematic, widespread and grave violations of human rights”3 in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea