Freedom House hat seinen diesjährigen Bericht über die schlimmsten Regime auf unserem Planeten veröffentlicht:
The Worst of the Worst 2007
“This report from Freedom House to the United Nations focuses on states and regions that have seen some of the world’s most severe repression and most systematic and brutal violations of human dignity. Our report seeks to focus the attention of the United Nations Human Rights Council on states and territories that deserve investigation and condemnation for their widespread violations.”
Und hier gibts eine neue Studie zum nordkoreanischen Gulag:
Concentrations of Inhumanity (bzw. hier)
“It analyzes, according to the provisions of the international law defining crimes against humanity, the unique phenomena of repression associated with the core element of the North Korean gulag: the kwan-li-so political penal labor encampments where as many as 200,000 persons, including both suspected wrong-doers and wrong-thinkers, and up to three generations of their family members, are imprisoned without trial and subjected to forced labor under extremely severe conditions.”