NK Watch is investigating the damage of crimes against humanity in North Korea through interviews with North Korean defectors. NK Watch writes petitions based on the investigation records and submits them to the United Nations Human Rights Council: Special Rapporteur on Torture, Special Rapporteur on violence against women, Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearnces, Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, Special Rapporteur on Contemporary forms of Slavery, and Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
NK Watch is looking for witnesses with families who have been identified or presumed to have been detained in political prison camps or who have been victims of crimes against humanity by North Korean authorities.