The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea

Research ServicesDistrict of Columbia, United States11-50 Employees

The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea is the leading U.S.-based bipartisan, non-governmental organization in the field of North Korean human rights research and advocacy, tasked to focus international attention on human rights abuses in that country. It is HRNK’s mission to persistently remind policy makers, opinion leaders, and the general public in the free world and beyond that more than 20 million North Koreans need our attention. Since its establishment in 2001, HRNK has played an important intellectual leadership role on North Korean human rights issues by publishing eighteen major reports (available on our website at http://hrnk.org/publications/hrnk-publications.php). “The Hidden Gulag” (2003) put the North Korean political prisoner camp system on the map internationally. In our 2006 report, “Failure to Protect: A Call for the UN Security Council to Act in North Korea,” HRNK became the first organization to propose the establishment of a UN Commission of Inquiry (CoI) on the human rights situation in North Korea. “Lives for Sale” (2010) brought to light the trafficking and forced marriages endured by North Korean women who fled to China and the brutal treatment to which they were subjected upon forced return to North Korea. “Taken” (2011) brought international attention to the decades-long practice of abduction of South Korean and foreign nationals by the North Korean regime. In the past four years, HRNK has been invited four times – June 2011, September 2011, March 2012, and March 2014 – to provide expert testimony before the U.S. Congress. HRNK has also played a major role in the findings of the UN Commission of Inquiry on human rights in North Korea. For media inquiries please contact Executive Director Greg Scarlatoiu at executive.director@hrnk.org or (202) 499-7973. For additional information on HRNK, please refer to our website at hrnk.org and follow us on Facebook at facebook.com/committeehrnk and on Twitter @committeehrnk.

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