I was sent these articles, probably because of my section on human rights in the Wright Library. They are real eye-openers, worth reading. Many observers believe North Korea may be the world's worst abuser of human rights at present, but information may be harder to get or to verify than perhaps in any other country, as the government so tightly conrtols all aspects of life there.

• Human rights abuses in North Korea
  
  
• Doctors Without Borders / Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) withdraws from North Korea, citing the impossibility of of directing humanitarian assistance to those most in need
  
  
• Witness reveals horror of North Korean gulag

Read about a report about Arab societies written by Arab intellectuals warning that they are being crippled by a lack of political freedom and the repression of women.


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