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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797392803321

Titolo

North Korean human rights : the road ahead / / editors, Victor Cha, Marie DuMond

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, District of Columbia ; ; Lanham, Maryland : , : Center for Strategic & International Studies : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4422-4093-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (83 p.)

Collana

CSIS Reports

Disciplina

323.095193

Soggetti

Human rights - Korea (North)

Korea (North)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"May 2015."

"A Conference Report of the CSIS Korea Chair."

Nota di contenuto

North Korean Human Rights; Contents; Acknowledgments; Executive Summary; 1. Opening Ceremony; Greetings; Victor Cha, Senior Adviser and Korea Chair, CSIS;  and Director of Asian Studies, Georgetown University; Welcoming Remarks; Jung-Hoon Lee, Ambassador for Human Rights, Republic of Korea;  and Director, Yonsei Center for Human Liberty ; Amanda Schnetzer, Director, Human Freedom, George W. Bush Institute; Greg Scarlatoiu, Executive Director, Committee for Human Rights in North Korea; 2. Introductory Remarks; 3. Keynote Address; 4. UN COI Report in Perspective

Chair: Victor Cha, Senior Adviser and Korea Chair, CSIS and Director of Asian Studies, Georgetown University; Overview: Michael Kirby, Chair, United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in North Korea;  and former Justice of the Australian High Court; Sonja Biserko, President, Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia;  and Member, United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in North Korea; Robert King, Special Envoy for North Korean Human Rights Issues, U.S. Department of State; Jung-Hoon Lee, Ambassador for Human Rights, Republic of Korea

and Director, Yonsei Center for Human Liberty5. What Is the Road Ahead?; Chair: Greg Scarlatoiu, Executive Director, Committee for



Human Rights in North Korea; Jung-hyun Cho, Assistant Professor, Korea National Diplomatic Academy; John Sifton, Asia Advocacy Director, Human Rights Watch; Roberta Cohen, Cochair of the Board, Committee for Human Rights in North Korea; Lindsay Lloyd, Program Director, Freedom Collection, George W. Bush Institute; 6. Luncheon Keynote Address; 7. Luncheon Keynote Address; 8. Award Presentation and Congratulatory Remarks; Award Acceptance Remarks

Michael Kirby, Chair, United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in North Korea and former Justice of the Australian High Court; Marzuki Darusman, UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the DPRK;  and Member, United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in North Korea; Sonja Biserko, President, Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia;  and Member, United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in North Korea; 9. Testimonies: DPRK Human Rights Violations in Focus; Chair: Melanie Kirkpatrick, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute

and Author of Escape from North Korea: The Untold Story of Asia's Underground RailroadTestimonies; Gwang Il Jung, Representative, Association of North Korean Political Victims and their Families ; Soon Shil Lee, Honorary Ambassador, the World Peace Freedom United Foundation; DPRK Human Rights Violations in Focus; Joseph Bermudez Jr., Cofounder and Chief Analytics Officer, AllSource Analysis;  and Senior Adviser, Committee for Human Rights in North Korea; Blaine Harden, Journalist;  and Author of Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West

David Hawk, Author of The Hidden Gulag

Sommario/riassunto

<span><span>To commemorate the one-year anniversary of the report by United Nations Commission of Inquiry on human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, CSIS held an unprecedented gathering of policymakers, opinion leaders, and stakeholders on the topic of North Korean human rights. This report summarizes those proceedings.</span></span>