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  Press Release: Investigate slavery and mass abuses in supply chain and export of goods and minerals, including coal from North Korea Investigate slavery and mass abuses in supply chain and export of goods and minerals, including coal from North Korea [Seoul] The Citizens’ Alliance for North Korean Human Rights’ (Citizen...

  

  Press Briefing: What Happened to Ethnic Koreans Displaced from Japan to North Korea? - Deception of "Paradise on Earth" and Enforced Disappearance   On November 9, NKHR held a press briefing to announce a new report release. The present report "What Happened to Ethnic Koreans Displaced from Japan to North Korea? - Deception of 'Para...

  

  The Official Launch of Yoon Hyun Institute  This year January, the Yoon Hyun Institute was found to commemorate Benjamin H. Yoon, Founder of the Korean chapter of Amnesty International and Citizens’ Alliance for N...

  

  Winners of the 2020 End Enforced Disappearances Poster-Making Contest NKHR presents your winning entries for the 2020 End Enforced Disappearances Poster-Making Contest Congratulations to all our winners!  1st place goes to "Caged Birds" by Kang Sa...

  

  Joint Statement on Deportation of Two North Korean Fishermen by 20 CSOs  

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  Blood Coal Production in North Korea  

  VOA) Mass Displacement of Ethnic Koreans in Japan to North Korea Amounting to "Slave Trade," Requires UN Investigation  

  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  

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  NPR) North Korea's Network Of Prison Camps Funds Weapons Programs, Rights Group Says North Korea's Network Of Prison Camps Funds Weapons Programs, Rights Group SaysFebruary 26, 20219:00 AM ETNorth Korea is using forced labor from its network of prison camps to mine coal and other minerals to boost exports and earn foreign currency, using the cash to support its nuclear weapons pr...

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  Bloomberg) North Korea Using Prison Labor to Defy Sanctions, Group Says       - Satellite images show prison expansion near mines: report      - Pyongyang accused by UN of sanctions-busting moves to get cash North Korea has stepped up its use of forced labor from prison camps to mine coal for export so it ca...

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  AFP) North Korea exploited South Korean POWs 'for decades': report  Seoul (AFP)North Korea used South Korean prisoners of war and their descendants through several generations as slave labour in a vast network of coal mines, a rights group said Thursday.Tens of thousands of South Korean prisoners of war were never returned by Pyongyang after the 1950-53 Kor...

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  Reuters) North Korea enslaving political prisoners to fund weapons programme: South Korea rights group