U.N. rights expert to seek engagement at start of N. Korea mandate

U.N. rights expert to seek engagement at start of N. Korea mandate

Tomas Ojea Quintana, the new U.N. special rapporteur on North Korea, gives an interview to Kyodo News at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Oct. 27, 2016. Oreja Quintana, an Argentinian lawyer with extensive human rights experience, said that he will try to engage with North Korea from the outset of his mandate aimed at addressing Pyongyang's human rights record. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

  • Product Code
  • ILEA000098515
  • Registered date
  • 2016/10/28 09:35:46
  • Credit
  • Kyodo / Kyodo News Images
  • Media source
  • 2016 Kyodo News
  • Media size
  • 1599 × 2128 pixel
  • Resolution
  • 240 dpi
  • Deployment size
  • 306.93(KB)*
  • Special instruction

*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.

Similar Images & Videos
    U.N. special rapporteur Quintana

    U.N. special rapporteur Quintana

    Tomas Ojea Quintana, U.N. Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in North Korea, speaks at a press conference in Seoul on July 10, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
      International symposium on abduction issue

      International symposium on abduction issue

      Tomas Ojea Quintana, U.N. special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in North Korea, delivers a speech at an international symposium on North Korea's abduction of Japanese nationals in Tokyo on Dec. 16, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
        U.N. rapporteur on N. Korea in Tokyo

        U.N. rapporteur on N. Korea in Tokyo

        Tomas Ojea Quintana (R, standing), the U.N. special rapporteur on North Korean human rights, addresses a meeting with Shigeo Iizuka (4th from L, front), who heads a group representing families of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea in the 1970s and 1980s, and others in Tokyo on Dec. 15, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
          N. Korean pleads to return at U.N. event

          N. Korean pleads to return at U.N. event

          North Korean national Kim Ryon Hui speaks at a press conference given by U.N. human rights official Tomas Ojea Quintana in Seoul on Dec. 14, 2017. Kim said her passport had been seized by a broker in South Korea and called for U.N. help so she can return home. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
            U.N. rapporteur on N. Korea in Seoul

            U.N. rapporteur on N. Korea in Seoul

            Tomas Ojea Quintana, the U.N. special rapporteur on North Korean human rights, holds a press conference in Seoul on Dec. 14, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
              U.N. rights expert vows efforts to resolve N. Korea abduction issue

              U.N. rights expert vows efforts to resolve N. Korea abduction issue

              Tomas Ojea Quintana (R), the U.N. special rapporteur on North Korea's human rights, meets with Katsunobu Kato (L), a Cabinet minister in charge of North Korea's past abductions of Japanese nationals, in Tokyo on Nov. 24, 2016. Ojea Quintana, an Argentinian lawyer who assumed the post in August, is on a four-day visit to Japan from Nov. 23. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
                U.N. special rapporteur on N. Korean human rights in Seoul

                U.N. special rapporteur on N. Korean human rights in Seoul

                Tomas Ojea Quintana, the United Nations special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in North Korea, speaks at a press conference in Seoul on Nov. 22, 2016. Quintana, an Argentine lawyer who took office in August, discussed North Korean human rights issues with South Korean officials and met with North Korean defectors. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
                  U.N. committee passes resolution on N. Korea's rights

                  U.N. committee passes resolution on N. Korea's rights

                  Japanese Ambassador Koro Bessho meets with reporters at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Nov. 15, 2016, after a resolution denouncing the widespread human rights violations in North Korea and expressing concern at the lack of progress in investigation over Japanese abductees was adopted by a U.N. committee. "The human rights situation in the DPRK remains as critical as ever," Bessho said. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
                    Ex-U.N. panel on N. Korea human rights speaks in Tokyo

                    Ex-U.N. panel on N. Korea human rights speaks in Tokyo

                    Michael Kirby, former chairman of the U.N. Commission of Inquiry on human rights in North Korea, speaks at a news conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Oct. 20, 2016. Kirby urged the international community to take action against North Korea's human rights abuses. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
                      U.N. rights expert sees engagement with N. Korea as important

                      U.N. rights expert sees engagement with N. Korea as important

                      Tomas Ojea Quintana, new U.N. special rapporteur on North Korea, gives an interview to Kyodo News on Sept. 23, 2016, in Geneva. Ojea Quintana said engagement with Pyongyang is crucial for addressing human rights violations in the reclusive country, while emphasizing the importance of holding its government to account. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo