Violation of women's rights denounced
KCNA
Pyongyang, March 15 (KCNA) -- The DPRK maintains the consistent stand of strongly condemning the sexual abuses and traffic in women and girls, regarding them as a most serious violation of women's rights as it has a bitter history in which a great many Korean women and teenage girls were forced into sexual slavery for the Japanese imperial army during the Second World War, Japan's crimes against humanity.
A DPRK delegate to the 47th meeting of the un commission on women's status said this in a speech made on March 6.
Women still remain the first target of human rights violation, the delegate said, and continued:
The appalling poverty of women, a negative aftereffect of "globalization", an unbalanced distribution of wealth and benefits and women's marginalization resulting from the rapid progress made in information and communication technology, and the violation of women's rights caused by the misuse of information and communication technology -- all these new challenges arouse the international community's due concern and urgently call for immediate measures to address them.
In order to put an end to the traffic in women and girls, a major form of violence against women in several regions of the world at present, it is necessary to incriminate sexual abuses and wage a government-sponsored well-conceived, sustained struggle on a regional and worldwide scale.
There are no such evils as sexual abuses and traffic in women in the DPRK guided by the man-centered Juche idea. Its women are fully granted by law the same rights with men to freely participate in all fabrics of social life including politics, economy and culture. All the Korean women make a great contribution to the building of a powerful nation free from any legal or administrative restrictions.
