Press Release Oct 13, 2023 The Governments of South Korea and the US Must Demand Xi Jinping to Stop Forcibly Repatriating North Korean Defectors On the evening of Oct. 9, Chinese officials swiftly repatriated North Korean defectors back to North Korea through Hunchun, Tumen, Changbai, Nanping, and Dandong.
Announcement Apr 24, 2023 Meet Oslo Freedom Forum Speaker Pastor Kim Meet Pastor Seungeun Kim (@Pastorkim_Caleb), a prominent human rights advocate, the head of the Caleb Mission, a Christian church based in South Korea, and a 2023 Oslo Freedom Forum speaker.
Press Release Feb 22, 2023 HRF Announces New Grants for North Korean Human Rights The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) is pleased to announce five grants to help strengthen the work of civil society organizations in South Korea focused on improving North Korean human rights, education, and resettlement.
Press Release Jun 14, 2021 HRF Urges G7 to Address Human Rights Violations in North Korea During Cornwall Summit Since the spread of the Covid-19 virus, North Korea has enacted the strictest and most brutal restrictions of any country.
Press Release May 24, 2021 Biden and Moon Administrations Must Prioritize North Korean Human Rights NEW YORK (May 24, 2021) — Last Friday, President Joseph Biden held his first summit with South Korean president Moon Jae-in.
Press Release Feb 3, 2021 HRF to Biden Administration: Focus on Worst Human Rights Offenders NEW YORK (February 3, 2021) – Following the inauguration of President Joseph Biden in the United States on January 20, 2021
Press Release Dec 14, 2020 South Korean Government Criminalizes North Korean Human Rights Activism NEW YORK (December 14, 2020) – Today, the South Korean National Assembly passed a controversial bill proposed by the Foreign Affairs and Unification Committee
Announcement Dec 1, 2020 State-Sponsored Hacking: Russia, Saudi Arabia, and North Korea At the 2020 Oslo Freedom Forum, the Human Rights Foundation hosted a panel discussion about how dictatorships employ cyber attacks at home and abroad.
Blog Post Mar 12, 2020 Using fashion as silent protest in North Korea From wearing lipstick to putting on a pair of jeans, fashion has become a political statement for North Koreans.
Press Release Mar 1, 2025 HRF’s statement on North Korea and Otto Warmbier NEW YORK (March 1, 2019) — Earlier this week, the second summit between North Korea and the United States was held in Hanoi, Vietnam. At this time, we believe…
Press Release Feb 27, 2019 HRF to UN Special Rapporteur: Defend the Free Speech of North Korean Defectors and Human Rights Activists in South Korea NEW YORK (February 27, 2019) — In a joint letter addressed to the U.N. special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the…
Press Release Sep 6, 2018 North Korea Denounces Flash Drives for Freedom NEW YORK (September 6, 2018) — Yesterday, the North Korean dictatorship denounced HRF‘s Flash Drives for Freedom program in its state-run newspaper, Minju Choson. Unlike the DPRK‘s Rodung Sinmun —…
Report Jul 27, 2018 Authoritarianism and Trafficking in Persons Though trafficking is present in every country, including democracies, our analysis shows that there is a connection between trafficking and authoritarianism. A possible explanation for this is that…
Media May 22, 2022 The Kim-Trump Peace Talks Are a Tragedy for the North Korean People In yet another sign of how the international community continues to legitimize the North Korean regime, it emerged Tuesday that the U.S. government has already been minting commemorative coins to…
Publication Apr 23, 2018 South Korea Silences North Korean Defectors to Appease Kim Jong-un NEW YORK (April 23, 2018) — In a public letter addressed to South Korean President Moon Jae-in, the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) denounced two incidents in which South Korean government…
Media Feb 27, 2018 U.N. Links North Korea to Syria’s Chemical Weapon Program (The New York Times)– North Korea has been shipping supplies to the Syrian government that could be used in the production of chemical weapons, United Nations experts contend. The evidence…
Press Release Jan 31, 2018 Ji Seong-ho Honored During State of the Union Address WASHINGTON (January 31, 2018) — North Korean defector and HRF partner Ji Seong-ho was honored during the State of the Union Address last night in Washington, D.C. Seong-ho was featured…
News Dec 12, 2017 North Korea’s prisons are as bad as Nazi camps (The Washington Post) – North Korea’s political prisons are just as bad as — and perhaps even worse than — the Nazi concentration camps of the Holocaust, a renowned judge and Auschwitz survivor has concluded after hearing from former North Korean prisoners and guards.
News Nov 17, 2017 North Korean defector had 27cm parasitic worm in his stomach Parasitic worms have been found in a North Korean soldier critically injured while defecting to South Korea, highlighting nutrition and hygiene problems that observers believe have plagued the isolated country for decades.
News Nov 7, 2017 10 North Koreans Detained in China; ‘We Fear the Worst,’ Activist Says SEOUL, South Korea — Ten North Koreans, including a 3-year-old boy and his mother, have been arrested in China and face being deported to their totalitarian homeland, a rights activist in South Korea said on Tuesday.
