North Korea "concerned about human rights in Australia", said UN representative

[Velasco]

I think you are exaggerating a bit. Certainly it's embarrasing to see North Korea stating concern about human rights in other countries, bit that's not the statement of the UNHRC

https://twitter.com/UN_HRC/status/1351844099259838464?s=09

[Velasco]

There are UN reports concerning North Korea, in case you are curious to know

https://www.ohchr.org/en/hrbodies/hrc/coidprk/pages/commissioninquiryonhrindprk.aspx

The United Nations Human Rights Council has established a Commission of Inquiry (COI) to investigate systematic, widespread and grave violations of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

[Velasco]

There are UN reports concerning North Korea, in case you are curious to know

https://www.ohchr.org/en/hrbodies/hrc/coidprk/pages/commissioninquiryonhrindprk.aspx

The United Nations Human Rights Council has established a Commission of Inquiry (COI) to investigate systematic, widespread and grave violations of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

Well that is (genuinely) nice to know.

It'd be nicer that the UNHCR was properly funded, ln order to develop its work better

https://www.unhcr.org/underfunding-2020/

UNHCR is mandated to provide protection, assistance and solutions for refugees, asylum-seekers, returnees, stateless persons, internally displaced people and others of concern to the Office, of whom there were 86.5 million at the end of 2019.

(...)

The COVID-19 crisis has exacerbated the already dire humanitarian needs globally, particularly in low and middle-income countries, which currently host more than 85% of the world’s refugees. The pandemic is destabilizing entire sectors of the economy, with millions depending on fragile incomes that are now at risk. More generally, violence, persecution and civil strife continue to uproot millions. Few conflicts have abated in recent months, while some, such as in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Libya, the Sahel and the Syrian Arab Republic, have gotten worse. Driven in part by the effects of the pandemic on livelihoods, gender inequality and gender-based violence have increased, internal displacement has been exacerbated, and freedom of movement and access to asylum reduced.

(...)

 The effects of this underfunding are felt across the range of UNHCR’s activities and around the world. Ten situations—the primary subject of this report—are particularly affected

(...)

The "ten situations" are: South Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo,  Somalia, Central African Republic,  Iraq, Burundi, Syria, Afghanistan, Venezuels and the Central Mediterranean Route

The reactionaries who want to abolish supra-national institutions simply don't care about humanitarian disasters, because they only believe in the Law of the Jungle. Despite many problems and malfunctions, the UN agencies play a role in alleviating these situations that cannot be replaced

[Velasco]

There are UN reports concerning North Korea, in case you are curious to know

https://www.ohchr.org/en/hrbodies/hrc/coidprk/pages/commissioninquiryonhrindprk.aspx

The United Nations Human Rights Council has established a Commission of Inquiry (COI) to investigate systematic, widespread and grave violations of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

It's been eight years. Are they done inquiring?

You are badly informed



https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/07/1069131

  28 July 2020
Human Rights
Women forcibly returned to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) are subjected to torture, ill treatment, sexual abuse, and other violations, according to a report published on Tuesday by the UN Human Rights office.   

You should have used Google to find an answer to your ill-intentioned question

I doubt very much that reactionaries who don't care about humanitarian crises, advocating the abolishment of the UN agencies, have a real concern about human rights anywhere in the world

[Velasco]

So we have the report. The inquiry started 2 months into Obama's second term and finished when Trump was running for reelection against Obama's then Vice President. That's 7 years, 4 months.

What? This report was published in July 2020

https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Countries/KP/HR_Violations_against_Women_DPRK_EN.pdf

 This report is based on various sources of information, including in-depth interviews conducted by OHCHR with over 100 women who were subjected to forced repatriation and subsequent detention in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea from 2009 to 2019. These are women who had eventually managed  to  escape  and  whom  OHCHR  interviewed  outside  of  the  Democratic  People’s  Republic  of  Korea. OHCHR also obtained information from former officials of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea who left the country, as well as organizations and individuals working with women from the Democratic  People’s  Republic  of  Korea  who  have  settled  in  the  Republic  of  Korea.  In  addition,  the  analysis draws from publicly available information such as reports from institutes, think tanks and non-governmental  organizations.8  OHCHR  has  assessed  the  information  collected  for  its  compliance  with  the Democratic Republic of Korea’s national legal framework and international human rights standards, including the Mandela and Bangkok Rules

Were they kicked off the Human Rights Council?

Have you checked the composition of the Human Rights Council? I'm looking for the Asia-Pacific members and see a "Republic of Korea", but possibly this is the country located in the southern part of the Korean peninsula. Actually the DPRK does not appear in the list of 117 countries serving between 2006 and 2020

https://www.ohchr.org/en/hrbodies/hrc/pages/membership.aspx

To be honest, I didn't notice before but the OP must be fake news.

The author should apopogize, imo

[Velasco]

For the record not a tankie, and the comical hypocrisy here is obvious, but that hypocrisy doesn't necessarily make the UNHRC wrong in its assessment. It might be, I don't know, but you can't prove that one way or the other by shouting hypocrisy, since, true or not, it's still just a tu quoque fallacy.

North Korea is not a member country of the Human Rights Council and it has bever been. I said already the OP is fake news, but people is still discussing this nonsense