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Congressional Hearings
September 18, 2015
The Hidden Gulag IV
Gender Repression & Prisoner Disappearances
&
Camp 15 Imagery Update
Friday, September 18, 2015
9:30a.m. – 11:30a.m.
Also Featuring
No Chain: The Association of North Korean Political Victims and Their Families
Knight Studio at the Newseum
June 25, 2015
THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF
THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL ON KOREAN STUDIES
Jointly with
April 27, 2015
Introductory Remarks:
Suzanne Scholte
President, North Korea Freedom Coalition
Vice-Co-Chair of the Board of Directors, HRNK
Presenter:
Joshua Stanton
Author, Arsenal of Terror: North Korea, State Sponsor of Terrorism
Discussants:
Nicholas Eberstadt
Harry Wendt Chair in Political Economy, American Enterprise Institute
Board of Directors, HRNK
Marcus Noland
Executive Vice President and Director of Studies, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Board of Directors, HRNK
Moderator:
Greg Scarlatoiu
Executive Director, HRNK
Space is limited. Please RSVP to Rosa Park, HRNK Director of Programs, at [email protected] by Thursday, April 23, 2015.
Hors d’oeuvres will be served and a cash bar will be available. Complimentary copies of the report will
February 25, 2015
This event, hosted by The War Crimes Research Office will feature David Mandel-Anthony, Senior Policy Advisor at the Office of Global Criminal Justice of the U.S. Department of State, leading the discussion. For more information, please see the attached flyer, and RSVP to [email protected]
February 17, 2015
The CSIS Office of the Korea Chair, the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, the George W. Bush Institute, and the Yonsei University Center for Human Liberty invite you to a special conversation:
North Korean Human Rights:
The Road Ahead
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
November 11, 2014
HRNK, NYU School of Law, the Hurford Foundation, CFR's Winston Lord Roundtable on US Foreign Policy and the Rule of Law in Asia, Humanity in Action, and The New York Democracy Forum will co-sponsor an event on November 11, 2014 at the NYU School of Law's Greenberg Lounge from 1:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Speakers will include Jerome Cohen, Greg Scarlatoiu, Stephen Bosworth, Charles Armstrong, Myung-Soo Lee, Roberta Cohen, Melanie Kirkpatrick, Philip Alston, David Hawk, Ryan Goodman, Donald Gregg, and Winston Lord.
October 17, 2014
The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea and the Korea Economic Institute of America Present:
The North Korea Human Rights Act:
A Decade Later
July 30, 2014
You are cordially invited to a special lecture organized by2014 International Summer Session at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies called "The North Korean Human Rights Conundrum: Is There a Way Forward?" This event is being held at the Main Conference Hall at Cyber Building, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (located at the left side of university main gate) on July 30, 2014 from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. The lecture will be hosted by HRNK Executive Director Greg Scarlatoiu with the keynote speech by ROK government’s Ambassador for Human Rights Jung-Hoon Lee. Speakers will include:
Young-Soon Kim, Choreographer, Political Prison Camp Survivor
Dong-Hyuk Shin, Political Prison Camp Survivor and Executive Director, Inside North Korea
Tim A. Peters, Founder-Managing Director, Helping Hands Korea (HHK)
Kwang-Jin Kim, Senior Researcher, ROK Institute for National Security Strategy (INSS)/HRNK
June 24, 2014
You are invited to attend a meeting of the Korea Club on Tuesday, June 24, 2014. The event will feature Jérome Sauvage who will give a presentation entitled “Working with North Korea: Experiences and Perspectives".
April 17, 2014
On April 17, 2014, from 8:45 am to 6:00 pm, HRNK, KEI, and the International Council on Korean Studies (ICKS) will co-host the 2014 Annual Conference of the International Council on Korean Studies. The human rights panel discussion, held from 9:00 to 11:45 am, will be moderated by Greg Scarlatoiu, HRNK executive director. The panelists will include: Roberta Cohen (HRNK co-chair and senior non-resident fellow, The Brookings Institution), who will address the forcible repatriation of North Korean refugees by China; Robert Collins (author of HRNK’s report “Songbun, North Korea’s Social Classification System”), who will address the human rights implications of the succession process in North Korea; and Bruce Bechtol (Angelo State University), who will address the impact of proliferation and illicit activities on the North Korean human rights situation. The discussants will be Amanda Mortwedt Oh (HRNK) and Soon Paik (U.S. Department of Labor and ICKS).
To register for this event, please click on this link.
Embargoed until 12:01 a.m. February 25, 2021. South Africa’s Apartheid and North Korea’s Songbun: Parallels in Crimes against Humanity by Robert Collins underlines similarities between two systematically, deliberately, and thoroughly discriminatory repressive systems. This project began with expert testimony Collins submitted as part of a joint investigation and documentation project scrutinizing human rights violations committed at North Korea’s short-
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This report is part of a comprehensive long-term project undertaken by HRNK to use satellite imagery to shed light on human suffering in the DPRK (more commonly known as North Korea) by monitoring activity at political prison and detention facilities throughout the nation. This study endeavors to both establish a preliminary baseline report and detail activities observed during 2002–2020 at a detention facility variously identified by former prisoners and researchers as the “Chŭngsan No. 11
The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK), a non-governmental organization based in Washington, D.C., has launched a report entitled North Korea: Imagery Analysis of Kyo-hwa-so No. 12, Jŏngŏ-ri - Update 3. The report methodology comprises satellite imagery analysis and former prisoner testimony. This kyo-hwa-so detention facility was first featured in the September 2015 report The Hidden Gulag IV: Gender Repression and Prisoner Disappearances by David Hawk. HRNK re
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Sep 18, 2019
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