According to the UN, women, who are more likely to try to defect than men, are raped, beaten, forced to abort if pregnant, and sometimes starved
North Korean women face widespread sexual violations by state security and police officials if they are forcibly returned after a failed attempt to flee, the UN’s rights body said on Tuesday.
The vast majority of border-crossers are female as women have more freedom of movement than men, who are all allocated state jobs in a traditionally patriarchal society. “They were subjected to body searches which required them to strip naked and then to squat and jump repeatedly to check for hidden items in their body cavities,” Collinge told reporters in Seoul.
Rape by guards was widespread, the report said, but few talked about it as it would often lead to further punishment, including starvation.
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