• Implementation of the North Korean Human Rights Act

    Committee on Foreign Affairs U.S. House of Representatives

    I thank the Committee for its invitation to testify on the implementation of the North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004, re-authorized in 2008. I represent, as Executive Director, the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, a bi-partisan, Washington-based research and advocacy organization devoted to the advancement of the human rights of the people […]

  • Human Rights in North Korea: Challenges and Opportunities

    House Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights

    Please see the video gallery for a live recording of the hearing. Good afternoon, Chairman Smith, Mr. Payne, and members of the Subcommittee. Thank you for inviting me to speak with you today about the human rights situation in North Korea, as that country prepares for a second hereditary transmission of top leadership, and about […]

  • China’s Repatriation of North Korean Refugees

    Hearing of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China , United States

    Please see the video gallery for a live recording of this hearing. Good afternoon, Chairman Smith, Cochairman Brown, and members of the Commission. On behalf of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, thank you for inviting me to speak with you at this hearing today. Our Committee considers it essential to draw attention to the […]

  • China’s Repatriation of North Korean Refugees

    Hearing of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China , United States

    Please see the video gallery for a live recording of this hearing. Unable to Attend in Person Statement of Roberta Cohen, Chair, Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, and Non-Resident Senior Fellow, the Brookings Institution, on China’s Repatriation of North Korean Refugees, at the Hearing of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, March 5, 2012 On behalf […]