GENEVA, May 7 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations Human Rights Council announced Tuesday the appointment of two more members of the commission of inquiry to investigate human rights violations in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).
Former Justice of the High Court of Australia Michael Donald Kirby will serve as chair of the three-person commission, and the other member appointed is Sonja Biserko, founder and president of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia, according to the council.
They will join Marzuki Darusman, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the DPRK, to investigate the "systematic, widespread and grave violations of human rights" in the DPRK, mandated by the council at its 22nd session on March 21.
The tenure of the commission of inquiry will be one year, according to the resolution, which also authorized a one-year extension of the mandate of Darusman as the special rapporteur and decided that he should serve as one of the members of the three-person commission.
The commission was requested to present an oral update to the Human Rights Council at its 24th session in September and to the General Assembly at its 68th session, and a written report to the council at its 25th session in March 2014.
