This 19-page briefing paper provides an overview of labor conditions at the KIC, an industrial complex located in North Korea. It documents the KIC Labor Law’s shortcomings in the areas of the freedom of association, the right to collective bargaining, the prohibitions on sex discrimination and harassment and harmful child labor, among others.
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Background Briefing
North Korea: Workers’ Rights at the Kaesong Industrial Complex
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