GENEVA
United Nations (UN) appointed a special team, comprising of an Austrian, a Serbian, and an Indonesian expert, for investigating human rights violations in North Korea.
UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) appointed Austrian retired judge Michael Donald Kirby as president for the special team.
Furthermore, Founder and President of Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia Sonja Biserko and Indonesian advocate Marzuki Darusman are also members of the special team.
The special team, which will inform the UNHRC in September 2013 in the first instance, will work for the human rights violations in North Korea for a year.
UNHRC had previously approved a yearlong investigation about suspicious fires and systematic human rights violations in North Korea.