Lina Yoon

Senior Researcher @HRW. Mostly North Korea. Opinions my own, RTs not endorsements. Mom. She/her. // 휴먼라이츠워치 한반도 특히 북한 전문 선임연구원.

[Lina Yoon @linayp]

It is vitally important for the world to remember the people of North Korea, not just its nuclear weapons.
https://t.co/wvAsKdhGWm

[Human Rights Watch @hrw]

North Korea in Crisis: Food Shortages and Information Lockdown https://t.co/hRv9t7wAey by @linayp

[Lina Yoon @linayp]

My colleague @heatherbarr1 writes about #SouthKorea's latest digital sex crimes crisis, with deepfake porn images targeting hundreds of thousands of women and girls. South Korea must address its deep misogynistic culture, reforming its education, justice & policy systems.

[Human Rights Watch @hrw]

South Korea is facing its latest crisis of digital sex crimes.

Social media users took photos and videos of women and girls, manipulated them into sexual deepfakes, and posted them online for hundreds of thousands of people to watch. https://t.co/htMGWBuHRV

[Human Rights Watch @hrw]

This week the International Court of Justice found serious international law violations by Israel toward Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

@TiranaHassan explains the Court's historic opinion ⤵️

[Lina Yoon @linayp]

Great news! Landmark ruling by South Korea's Supreme Court that protects same-sex couple's right to equality, dignity, and to be free of discrimination. @minhee_ryu @ryanthoreson

[Raphael Rashid @koryodynasty]

BREAKING: South Korea's Supreme Court rules in favour of same-sex couple's right to health insurance dependency benefits. The court found excluding same-sex partners violates the constitutional principle of equality, discriminating without reasonable justification.

[Lina Yoon @linayp]

#SouthKorea must leverage the #UN General Assembly, to create a new reporting monitoring body on #NorthKorea, integrating human rights and efforts to address its weapons proliferation and threats to international peace and security. @koreatimescokr @hrw https://t.co/I9iduPqgZf

[The Daily NK @The_Daily_NK]

The number of copies of the Rodong Sinmun circulated to businesses in rural #NorthKorea has dropped significantly due to the country's economic troubles. https://t.co/AJSXzph9gT

[Elaine Pearson @PearsonElaine]

A group of NGOs including @hrw @amnesty @ISHRglobal release translations of @UNHumanRights's Xinjiang report + urge @volker_turk to give a public update of measures taken by the Chinese government & his office to address the rights situation in Xinjiang👇 https://t.co/EWEKS0V0Jy

[Lina Yoon @linayp]

My colleague @hrw John Sifton writes for @Diplomat_APAC on the Security Council's deadlock on #NorthKorea, and the need for the UN General Assembly to create a new body to monitor and report on #HumanRights and security, and ensuring accountability. https://t.co/nSCrKhwVyr

[Human Rights Watch @hrw]

North Korea is continuing to use Covid-19 as an excuse to seal off the country from the rest of the world, and civilians are paying the price.

Here's how ⤵️

[Maya Wang 王松蓮 @wang_maya]

Chinese govt has been systematically changing hundreds of village names with religious, historical, or cultural meaning for Uyghurs into names reflecting recent Chinese Communist Party ideology, @hrw + Uyghur Hjelp's analysis of Chinese govt data shows https://t.co/CWohzCnTBK

[Raphael Rashid @koryodynasty]

Hyundai's rainbow Pride cars, never to be seen in home market South Korea.

[Fereshta Abbasi @FereshtaAbbasi]

Human Rights Watch is hiring for Kenneth Roth Practitioner-In-Residence. Apply if you are passionate about human rights and want to work with us. https://t.co/f7jVNTSnuI

[Elaine Pearson @PearsonElaine]

My colleague @hrw's @linayp writes for @Newsweek how North Korea is the world's forgotten human rights crisis and what foreign government's need to do about it. https://t.co/kTPVWQgNhb

[Lindsey Hilsum @lindseyhilsum]

Last night ⁦@TiranaHassan⁩ ⁦@hrw⁩ told me how seeing the atrocities in #Darfur in the early 2000s made her pivot from humanitarian to human rights work. She values facts and demands accountability. After a year she’s emerging as a great Executive Director.

[Elaine Pearson @PearsonElaine]

The Chinese government is doing all it can to suppress, censor & erase memory of the Tiananmen Massacre 35 years ago.

It's gotten so Orwellian that the Hong Kong government refers to arrests regarding "an upcoming sensitive date" - they won't say June 4 or Tiananmen anymore.

[Lina Yoon @linayp]

#NorthKorea's systemic #HumanRights abuses fuel its weapons programs. Recent forced returns highlight the China and North Korea's brutality. The UN must integrate human rights monitoring with efforts to curb North Korea's nuclear threats. @hrw @Newsweek https://t.co/Y6lyYjhaHJ

[The Daily NK @The_Daily_NK]

Daily NK contributor Fyodor Tertitskiy analyzes the impact of Kim Jong Un's new "anti-unification" policy. #NorthKorea #unification https://t.co/bjjqHpEiZo

[Maya Wang 王松蓮 @wang_maya]

Look at these smiling faces 3 years ago, now behind bars awaiting their "verdicts" today. All they--and Hong Kong people-- wanted was a chance to decide their own fate. Democracy is not a crime, regardless of Beijing--and its controlled courts--may say.

[The Daily NK @The_Daily_NK]

Corn prices in #NorthKorea's markets have recently fallen after skyrocketing for some time. Moreover, with the market price of rice fluctuating from region to region, provincial price gaps have widened. https://t.co/vDDRc18Hpl

[Maya Wang 王松蓮 @wang_maya]

Chinese govt has used extreme forms of pressure to coerce rural Tibetans to relocate their long-established villages, Human Rights Watch @hrw said in a *new* report released today https://t.co/Gl7W4dMpRW.

[The Daily NK @The_Daily_NK]

Daily NK recently interviewed a North Korean worker in Russia to better understand the current atmosphere in Russia and the situation facing North Korean workers in the country. #NorthKorea https://t.co/pdieunXslY