UN goes after North Korea on children’s rights and child labour
Geneva — A UN panel for child rights said on Wednesday that North Korea was punishing children for their "parents’ crimes" or political views by discrimination, and urged Pyongyang to end child labour. The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, which reviewed Pyongyang’s record last month, also voiced deep concern about what it said was the "ideological indoctrination" in its education system. Tension in the region and beyond, especially with the US, has spiked considerably in recent months as North Korea conducted a series of tests of its medium- and long-range ballistic missiles, some of which flew over Japan, as well as its sixth nuclear test on September 3. In its findings, the panel said it remained concerned that North Korea did not "adequately guarantee the right to freedom from torture and other cruel or degrading treatment or punishment, in law and in practice, in particular of children forced to return to [North Korea], children living in street situations, and children ...
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