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What can you do to Help Improve Human Rights
In North Korea?
Donate
to the US Committee for Human Rights in North Korea. Your
tax-deductible donation will help sustain the Committee's critically
important projects that:
- Provide much-needed support for North Korean women
who have been trafficked inside China, and their children.
- Shine the spotlight on gross atrocities such as
torture inside North Korea's prison camps.
- Put human rights, not just nuclear weapons, on the
international agenda.
- Educate a broad general public, especially students,
about human rights conditions inside North Korea through
community-level seminars and international conferences.
- Promote corporate codes of conduct that protect
workers' rights among companies conducting business inside North Korea.
Contact Government Representatives
Don't be afraid to voice your concerns and urge your Congressional
representatives to focus more attention on human rights abuses in North
Korea. Your members of Congress represent your views-addresses and
telephone of numbers of congressional offices are easy to find on the
Internet at www.house.gov
and www.senate.gov.
Organized letter-writing campaigns are an effective means of
demonstrating that you and many others are aware of human rights abuses
in North Korea and would like your congressional representative to work
toward improving human rights conditions in North Korea through
Congressional hearings, for example. For sample letter, click
here (doc).
Organize Events
Campus and community organizations are often willing to host events
such as lectures, forums and meetings to raise awareness of human
rights abuse in North Korea and mobilize efforts to help alleviate the
suffering of North Korean people.
Donations/Volunteer
You may not have the financial resources to donate funds to human
rights organizations. However, you can urge family and friends to make
meaningful and tax-deductible contributions to organizations you think
can help to improve human rights in North Korea. Also, instead of money
you can always donate your time as a volunteer for human rights
organizations.
Stay Informed!
With access to the Internet, it is easy to stay informed about the
human rights situation in North Korea. Also, reviewing Internet
resources is an effective way to discover other opportunities, such as
internship openings, events in your area, and volunteer positions that
may allow you to make contributions in meaningful ways to help improve
the human rights situation in North Korea.
To get you started, here are a few suggestions:
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