Many times it has become a matter of human rights violations in North Korea by Kim Jong Un. This time, UN committee complains that experiments are being carried out in people with disability.
There is reliable information that North Korea conducts medical experiments in people with disabilities, nearing them by force or killing newborns.
These practices appear to be used in pediatric hospitals and detention centers in North Korea according to the Rights Committee of people with disabilities.
“Reliable information suggests that medical and scientific experiments are carried out in people with psychological or mental disability,” the Commission said in its report, which appears anxious for information indicating that disabled women were neutered or underwent.
During the presentation of the report by reporters, Mara Gabrili, a member of the Commission, explained that she also heard that people with disabilities were used, without their consent, in clinical trials.
The Commission asked North Korea to immediately criminalize all these experiments, guarantee the independent supervision of these institutions, and establish mechanisms through which there will be compensation for victims.
“People with disabilities are not objects of experimentation but people who have the right to physical integrity, autonomy and respect,” Gabrili stressed.
The report is based on confidential information, in information from the UN Special Envoy on North Korea, who traveled to North Korea in 2017, as well as testimonies of people who managed to escape the country.
Gabrili regretted that Pyongyang did not give the committee official information and when they were conveyed her concerns “the state said it was a lie”.
According to the Commission, the North Korean Constitution does not explicitly prohibit disability discrimination.