Committee for Human Rights in North Korea
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The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK), formerly known as the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, is a Washington, D.C.-based non-governmental research organization that "seeks to raise awareness about conditions in North Korea and to publish research that focuses the world's attention on human rights abuses in that country."[1][2]
Founded | October 2001 |
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Type | Non-profit NGO |
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Key people | Gordon Flake (Co-Chair, Board of Directors) Katrina Lantos Swett (Co-Chair, Board of Directors) Roberta Cohen (Co-Chair Emeritus, Board of Directors) Andrew Natsios (Co-Chair Emeritus, Board of Directors) Greg Scarlatoiu (Executive Director) |
Website | www |
Founded in 2001 by a group of foreign policy and human rights specialists, HRNK has published reports on issues relevant to North Korean human rights today.[3] The committee's leadership has testified to Congress about North Korean human rights and China's forced repatriation of North Korean refugees.[4][5] In April 2012, HRNK held its first major conference on North Korean human rights to launch its publication, The Hidden Gulag, Second Edition, on North Korean political prison camps.[6]