North Korean Women Suffer Discrimination, Rape, Malnutrition: UN

North Korean Women Suffer Discrimination, Rape, Malnutrition: UN
Women wearing traditional clothes walk past North Korean soldiers after an opening ceremony for a newly constructed residential complex in Ryomyong street in Pyongyang, North Korea, on April 13, 2017. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj
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GENEVA—North Korean women are deprived of education and job opportunities and are often subjected to violence at home and sexual assault in the workplace, a U.N. human rights panel said on Monday.

After a regular review of Pyongyang’s record, the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women also voiced concern at rape or mistreatment of women in detention especially those repatriated after fleeing abroad.