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The Oslo Center for Peace and Human Rights - US Foundation is a Minnesota nonprofit corporation established to support the ideals and goals of The Oslo Center for Peace and Human Rights, in Oslo, Norway. The mission of the Foundation is to promote peace and human rights through support of particular projects and programs initiated by the Foundation, the Oslo Center, or other organizations or individuals.
| The EU requested to table UN proposal on North Korea |
| Tuesday, 04 November 2008 |
 - The humanitarian situation in North Korea is very serious. The UN should strengthen its annual resolution on North Korea by referring to the doctrine on the responsibility of every state to protect its population, says special adviser Hilde Salvesen at the Oslo Center for Peace and Human Rights. Jointly with Václav Havel, the Oslo Center has urged the EU Precidency to submit the proposal to the UN.
The Oslo Center also suggests that the UN Secretary General establish a committee to investigate the situation in North Korea in order to assess whether international law is being violated. The two recommendations to the UN are based on the report “Failure to Protect: The Ongoing Challenge of North Korea”, that was published last September. The report documents an extremely serious situation for the people of North Korea. |
In the course of a long political life, I have become increasingly convinced that the most important challenge facing us today is to fight for the poor and the oppressed. That is why I established The Oslo Center for Peace and Human Rights.