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N. Korea seeks key parts dropped in U.N. human rights resolution: envoy

NEW YORK, United States - Marzuki Darusman, a special rapporteur of human rights in North Korea, holds a press conference at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Oct. 28, 2014. Darusman recounted his "unexpected" meeting the previous day with four officials from North Korea, who suggested changes in a draft U.N. resolution on human rights in North Korea in exchange for an offer to visit the secluded country. Darusman has been barred from doing so for his human rights investigations.

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U.N. official on N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - U.N. representative Marzuki Darusman holds a press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on April 10, 2014. He said a U.N. commission that released a scathing report in February on North Korea's human rights abuses will push for Kim Jong Un's regime to be brought before the International Criminal Court.

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U.N. rep meets Japan minister on N. Korea's abductions

TOKYO, Japan - U.N. Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in North Korea Marzuki Darusman (R) meets with Keiji Furuya, Japan's minister in charge of the issue of Japanese nationals abducted to North Korea, in Tokyo on April 9, 2014.

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U.N. human rights envoy

NEW YORK, United States - Marzuki Darusman, the United Nations special rapporteur on the human rights situation in North Korea, speaks during a press conference at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Nov. 2, 2012.

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U.N. special rapporteur Darusman

TOKYO, Japan - Marzuki Darusman, the U.N. human rights investigator on North Korea, speaks at a press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Jan. 20, 2012. He expressed hope that the new regime in the North will engage with the international community to improve its human rights situation, while urging the reclusive state to reinvestigate cases of abductions of Japanese nationals.

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U.N. examiner speaks on Korean separated families

SEOUL, South Korea - Marzuki Darusman, U.N. special rapporteur on North Korea's human rights situation, speaks at a press conference in Seoul on Nov. 25, 2011. Darusman urged Pyongyang to make efforts toward an early resumption and expansion of a reunion program for separated families and relatives in North and South Korea.

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U.N. urges Pyongyang to reinvestigate abduction cases

TOKYO, Japan - Marzuki Darusman, the U.N. special rapporteur on North Korea's human rights situation, attends a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 28, 2011. Darusman urged Pyongyang to fulfill its promise made in August 2008 to reinvestigate its past abductions of Japanese nationals, stressing the need to swiftly resolve the issue as the victims and their families get old.

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U.N. expert discusses N. Korea abductions with Japan minister

Katsunobu Kato (L), state minister in charge of the issue of North Korea's past abductions of Japanese nationals, shakes hands with Marzuki Darusman, U.N. special rapporteur on human rights issues in North Korea, at the Cabinet Office in Tokyo on Jan. 18, 2016. "Japan does not intend to close the window for dialogue with North Korea," Kato said in his meeting with Darusman, which was open to media. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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N. Korea alleged to send thousands abroad as forced laborers

North Korea's Geneva-based Deputy U.N. Ambassador Choe Myong Nam (L) attends a meeting at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Oct. 29, 2015. He rejected an assessment and report by Marzuki Darusman, the U.N. special investigator on the situation of human rights in North Korea, that North Korea has more than 50,000 nationals engaged in what amounts to forced labor abroad to earn foreign currency. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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N. Korea alleged to send thousands abroad as forced laborers

Marzuki Darusman, the U.N. special investigator on the situation of human rights in North Korea, makes remarks during a meeting at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Oct. 29, 2015. Darusman reported that North Korea has more than 50,000 nationals engaged in what amounts to forced labor abroad to earn foreign currency, mostly working on construction sites in Russia and China. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Trilateral summit expected to address N. Korean human rights issue

Marzuki Darusman, U.N. special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in North Korea, attends a press conference at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Oct. 28, 2015. He urged leaders of China, Japan and South Korea to address the North Korean human rights issue at the Nov. 1 trilateral summit. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.N. rapporteur on N. Korea's human rights issues speaks in Tokyo

Marzuki Darusman, U.N. special rapporteur on the human rights situation in North Korea, speaks to Kyodo News during an interview in Tokyo on Jan. 23, 2015. Darusman said family members of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea decades ago may testify at the U.N. Security Council over the abduction issue. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.N. envoy on N. Korea human rights visits Japan

Marzuki Darusman (R), the U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in North Korea, and Eriko Yamatani, a Japanese minister in charge of the abduction issue, shake hands in Tokyo on Jan. 22, 2015, prior to their talks. Darusman is visiting Japan from Jan. 19 to 23 to discuss the issue of North Korea's abductions of Japanese nationals in the 1970s and 1980s. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.N. envoy on N. Korea human rights visits Japan

Marzuki Darusman (R), the U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in North Korea, addresses a meeting in Tokyo on Jan. 22, 2015, with relatives of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea in the 1970s and 1980s. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.N. urges Pyongyang to reinvestigate abduction cases

TOKYO, Japan - Marzuki Darusman, the U.N. special rapporteur on North Korea's human rights situation, attends a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 28, 2011. Darusman urged Pyongyang to fulfill its promise made in August 2008 to reinvestigate its past abductions of Japanese nationals, stressing the need to swiftly resolve the issue as the victims and their families get old. (Kyodo)

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N. Korea seeks key parts dropped in U.N. human rights resolution: envoy

NEW YORK, United States - Marzuki Darusman, a special rapporteur of human rights in North Korea, holds a press conference at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Oct. 28, 2014. Darusman recounted his "unexpected" meeting the previous day with four officials from North Korea, who suggested changes in a draft U.N. resolution on human rights in North Korea in exchange for an offer to visit the secluded country. Darusman has been barred from doing so for his human rights investigations. (Kyodo)

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U.N. special rapporteur Darusman

TOKYO, Japan - Marzuki Darusman, the U.N. human rights investigator on North Korea, speaks at a press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Jan. 20, 2012. He expressed hope that the new regime in the North will engage with the international community to improve its human rights situation, while urging the reclusive state to reinvestigate cases of abductions of Japanese nationals. (Kyodo)

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U.N. examiner speaks on Korean separated families

SEOUL, South Korea - Marzuki Darusman, U.N. special rapporteur on North Korea's human rights situation, speaks at a press conference in Seoul on Nov. 25, 2011. Darusman urged Pyongyang to make efforts toward an early resumption and expansion of a reunion program for separated families and relatives in North and South Korea. (Kyodo)

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Rohingya issue

Marzuki Darusman (C), head of the U.N. Independent International Fact-Finding Mission, and other investigators Radhika Coomaraswamy (L) and Christopher Sidoti hold a press conference over Rohingya-related issues on Sept. 18, 2018, in Geneva. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.N. fact-finding mission on Myanmar still denied access: chief

Marzuki Darusman, Indonesian chairman of a U.N. fact-finding mission set up to probe alleged human rights abuses by Myanmar security forces against Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State, gives a speech in Jakarta on Nov. 21, 2017. Darusman said his team continues to be denied access from the Myanmar government. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ruling Golkar party proposes hou

A faction of Indonesia's ruling Golkar party in the People's Consultative Assembly proposes Saturday Nov. 21 that former President Suharto be put under house arrest and an independent body be established to investigate his personal wealth. ''We propose that an independent body be set up to examine policies taken by former President Suharto under his government and his personal wealth,'' Marzuki Darusman (R), chairman of the party's faction in the country's highest constitutional body, said at a news conference in Jakarta. ==Kyodo