• Funding Repression in North Korea through Human Trafficking

    Please join Young Professionals in International Affairs for a presentation by Greg Scarlatoiu, Executive Director of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea. The session will focus on the trafficking of North Korean laborers by their government to work abroad. Despite multiple sets of sanctions, North Korea has sold its citizens to work internationally […]

  • Magna Carta 1215, North Korea 2015: Lessons from the idea of control of government power

    Australia’s longest-serving judge Justice Michael Kirby will be lecturing on the role of law in grave human rights abuses, and the new international system of accountability. Kirby is a renowned figure and recently chaired the United Nation’s Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Kirby afterwards wrote a letter […]

  • North Korean defector movie I am Sun Mu at Raindance

    Coming to the Raindance Film Festival on 3 October, the European premiere of a documentary about a North Korean artist defector. Tickets will be available from the Vue box office shortly.   'I am Sun Mu' Directed by Adam Sjöberg United States, China, South Korea | 86 minutes ‘I am Sun Mu’ is a documentary […]

  • Doing Business in North Korea

    On Thursday, October 8th, we will be co-hosting an event with the Asia Scotland Institute in Edinburgh about human rights and doing business in North Korea. Tickets are available now and can be purchased here: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/doing-business-in-north-korea-tickets-18393059135  The event starts at 6pm in the Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation. Tickets are available for £25 or £10 (for […]