Human Rights and Religious Liberty

UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Article 18 "Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance."

Saturday, January 24, 2004

North Korea Executing Starving People For Stealing Food. Actually, executions for stealing food are nothing new, as most of our visitors must realize. What has changed is the polarization of society, as conditions worsten for the still-surviving people in the closed areas and improve for the elite in Pyongyang and other cities. In North Korea, appearances are all-important. For example, Pyongyang is regularly purged of the handicapped, the aged, and everyone who is not part of the core hereditary group. by Jim Lobe North Korea has been using food as an instrument of political and economic control, says a major new report by Amnesty International (AI). While the country has been unable to produce enough food for all of its citizens since the collapse of the Soviet... [Free North Korea!]
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