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  Commemorating Benjamin H. Yoon, Father of the North Korean Human Rights Movement, 1929~2019 Rest in Peace Benjamin H. Yoon, Founder of the Korean chapter of Amnesty International (1972) and Citizens’ Alliance for North Korean Human Rights (1996), passed away on June 3, 2019 in his 90th year. He worke...

  

  Press Briefing: the North Korean Archives Project  On January 31, NKHR organized a coffee briefing at the Seoul Press Center’s Foreign Correspondents Club. NKHR, in collaboration with the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) in Pola...

  

  Joint Letter to UN on Abduction Issue  

  

  2018 NED DEMOCRACY AWARD  Good morning. The day-to-day weather fluctuates tremendously these days.I hope everyone is safe and doing well.  The Citizens' Alliance for North Korean Human Rights received the De...

  

  Joint Letter to Kim Jong-Un JUNE 6, 2018 8:47PM EDTJoint Letter to Kim Jong-UnJune 6, 2018 Kim Jong UnChairman, State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of KoreaBuilding of the Central Committee of ...

• Multimedia

  Archives on U.S. and UK POWs and Korean War orphans  

  Arirang TV Interview  [Arirang TV, The Point : World Affairs] Ep.13 - Overseas perspectives on the 21st Inter-Korean Family Reunion

  Commemorating 2018 international day of victims of enforced disappearances  

  NKHR's 20th Anniversary! On May 4, 1996 few people gathered to establish the Citizens' Alliance for North Korean Human Rights (NKHR), an NGO that started the world North Korean human rights movement. Thank you for your sup...

  Head of OHCHR sends message to NKHR's event in Geneva Head of OHCHR sends message to NKHR's event in Geneva.Korea's separated families. The stories of thousands of families awaiting reunification.   ​On March 15, 2016 the Citizens' Al...

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  90 North Korean Refugees Rescued in 2017  

  

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  • International Conference on Enforced Disappearances: Solidarity, Strategies, and Solutions
  • The 12th International Conference on North Korean Human Rights & Refugees
  • The 11th International Conference on North Korean Human Rights and Refugees
  • 10th International Conference on North Korean Human Rights and Refugees
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  • [NKHR and Conectas Joint Stakeholder's Submission] Third Cycle of the UPR of DPRK
  • [Resolution] 72nd Session, UN General Assembly
  • The Life I Experienced in North Korea
  • North Korea’s Control over its People and the People’s Safety Agency
  • [Resolution] 31st Human Rights Council, North Korea

North Korea in the News

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  VOA) New Research on N. Korea’s Interaction with European Secret Police During Korean War SEOUL — A new research project examines the link between North Korea and various European Communist secret police agencies following the end of World War II, including documents recording the transport of Korean War orphans from the peninsula to Poland, as well as information on American a...

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  VOA NEWS: North Korean Human Rights Issue Remains Dire Experts: N. Korean Human Rights Issue Remains Dire, Must be Part of Ongoing TalksSEOUL — United Nations special rapporteur for human rights in North Korea, Tomas Quintana, visited South Korea last week to discuss the ongoing issues north of the demilitarized zone.Quintana told reporters in...

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  WSJ) Sex Abuse is Rampant in North Korea, Reports Say  

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  VOA) South Korea Proposes Reclassifying North Korean Abductees as Missing South Korea Proposes Reclassifying North Korean Abductees as MissingAugust 31, 2018 4:43 AMBrian Padden FILE - Members of the Korean Abductees to North Korea, the supporting group for those abducted by North Korea at the 1950-53 Korean War, participate at an anti-Koreas Summit candle rally i...