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  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  

  

  Visit to Netherlands and Germany through U-Bridge Program You are the Bridge for Unification! : Learning Transitional Justice from Netherlands and Germany  The NKHR's leadership program - “U-Bridge” (You are the Bridge for Unificat...

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  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  

  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...

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  133 North Korean Refugees Rescued in 2019  

  

  230 North Korean Refugees Rescued in 2018  

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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
  • The 9th International Conference on North Korea Human Rights & Refugees: Melbourne, Australia

  • Escaping the Paradise on Earth (3)
  • Escaping the Paradise on Earth (2)
  • Escaping the Paradise on Earth (1)
  • [NKHR and Conectas Joint Stakeholder's Submission] Third Cycle of the UPR of DPRK
  • [Resolution] 72nd Session, UN General Assembly

North Korea in the News

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  RFA) Interview: The World Has ‘Great Responsibility’ to Help the People of North Korea During Pandemic https://www.rfa.org/english/news/korea/hosaniak-12082020215543.html Ahead of Human Rights Day this week, RFA’s Korean Service interviewed Joanna Hosaniak, the Deputy Director General at the Citizens’ Alliance for North Korean Human Rights (NKHR), a South Korea-based NGO.Her interest in t...

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  KBS) S. Korean Group Calls for Investigation into N. Korean Repatriation of Korean Japanese A South Korean civic group is calling on the United Nations to investigate the mass repatriation to North Korea of ethnic Koreans living Japan that took place for several decades since 1959. The Citizens’ Alliance for North Korean Human Rights held a press conference in Seoul on Monda...

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  UPI) Activists call for U.N. probe of 'voluntary' North Korea repatriation from Japan Nov. 9 (UPI) -- The United Nations should investigate the historical repatriation of tens of thousands of ethnic Koreans from Japan for rights violations, a South Korea-based advocacy group says.Citizens' Alliance for North Korean Human Rights, or NKHR, said Monday at a press conference the ...

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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...