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Pyong Yang, Nov 28 (IANS): North Korea Friday lashed out at the US human rights record, saying the ongoing mass protests against racial discrimination exposed severe human rights abuse in the US.

Protests have taken place in about 170 US cities, including Boston, Los Angeles and New York, and at least 196 people have been arrested since a grand jury decided Monday not to indict white police officer Darren Wilson in the Aug 9 shooting death of Michael Brown, an 18-year-old African American.

"This is a clear proof of the real picture of the United States as tundra of human rights where extreme racial discrimination acts are openly practiced," Xinhua cited the official KCNA news agency a North Korean.

The wrongful US standards on human rights have provoked concerns all over the international community, including its allies, the spokesman said.

He added it was ironic that the US, despite being a human rights abuser itself, always gauges other countries' human rights records with its own problematic standards.

Tuesday, a mass rally of 100,000 soldiers and citizens was held on the Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang in protest against a UN human rights resolution on NortH Korea, which it claimed was part of a US-led human rights "racket" aimed to bring down its social system.

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Marrakech, Nov 28 (IANS): The 2nd World Forum on Human Rights has begun here with the participation of more than 6,000 people from a hundred countries.

The forum, which will last till Nov 30, is a platform to tackle several issues, including the rights of children, women, disabled people and migrants, in addition to other unresolved issues from the Vienna Conference on Human Rights and other issues related to the new generation of human rights, MAP news agency said.

The opening session Thursday was marked by the message of Morocco's King Mohammed VI, who is the patron of the conference. This is the first time that Morocco has hosted such a conference, a tribute to its progress on the human rights front.

The list of participants includes Nobel Peace Prize winners, heads of UN agencies, government representatives, NGOs, leading academics, human rights activists and international media.

The meeting will feature thematic forums that will be organized and managed by civil society stakeholders. The main conclusions of these forums will be presented at a final conference that will bring together civil society, representatives of the international system of human rights protection and international NGOs.

The 1st World Forum on Human Rights was held in 2013 in Brazil.

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