The United Nations Human Rights Council will consider new resolutions on Burma and North Korea next week, in which the mandate of the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Burma and the UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in North Korea will be reviewed.

Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) today urged the Human Rights Council to renew the mandates of both rapporteurs “without hesitation” and to support the calls for the establishment of a UN Commission of Inquiry to investigate crimes against humanity in both countries.

The current Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Burma, Tomás Ojea Quintana, noted in his report a year ago “a pattern of gross and systematic violation of human rights” which has been continuing “over a period of many years”.

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