Post-event – Conference on international advocacy to act to ensure accountability for north korea’s human rights violations
On Monday, September 27th, NK Watch held an international conference regarding advocacy and accountability for human rights violations in North Korea. The venue was prepared in compliance with social distancing measures. Thank you to all the speakers, both in person and online. Seating was prepared for social distancing Hon. Michael Kirby giving his keynote speech […]
NK Watch at Conference on international advocacy to act to ensure accountability for North Korea’s human rights violations
NK Watch Director, Myeongchul Ahn, gave the welcome address at Monday’s Conference on international advocacy to act to ensure accountability for north korea’s human rights violations. He encouraged raising awareness of North Korean human rights violations. Dr. Kwanhyung Lee, NK Watch’s Program Director, presented “NK Watch’s Human Rights Advocacy Activities and Cooperations with the International […]
Conference on international advocacy to act to ensure accountability for north korea’s human rights violations
NK Watch, an NGO specializing in investigating and documenting the harm of North Korean human rights violations, will hold an international conference, the Conference on international advocacy to act to ensure accountability for north korea’s human rights violations, on Monday, September 27th, at the Seoul Global Center, occurring both online and in-person. This conference aims to […]
2021 North Korean political prison camp animation “True North”
NK Watch Executive Director Myeongchul Ahn provided records and materials of testimony related to North Korea’s political prison camps at the request of the Japanese animation director, Mr. Eiji Han Shimizu for “True North,” an animation dealing with North Korean political prison camps. The short film was selected as an entry for the Annecy International […]
The Geoffrey Nice Foundation’s “A Report on the Legal Avenues to deal with Human Rights Abuses in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea” – Conference on international advocacy to act to ensure accountability for North Korea’s human rights violations
At Monday’s Conference on international advocacy to act to ensure accountability for North Korea’s human rights violations, the lawyers of the Geoffrey Nice Foundation – Ruby Peacock, Nathan Fuller, Holly Armstrong, and Adam Smith – presented key content online from A Report on the Legal Avenues to Deal with Human Rights Abuses in the DPRK. The […]
United Nations (A/75/271) quotes NK Watch report, July 30th, 2020
Report of the Special Rapporteur to the 76th session of the General Assembly of the Situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (A/75/271), cited NK Watch regarding the size of political prisoner camps and prisoners p. 5/18 on July 30th, 2020. View Report
Diplomatic Briefing on Results of Universal periodic Review (UPR) 3rd Cycle and DPRK
NK Watch Program Director Kwanhyung Lee attended the Diplomatic Briefing on the Results of the Universal periodic Review (UPR) 3rd Cycle and DPRK at the EU Delegation. During the session, NGOs on DPRK human rights issues gave an analysis of DPRK’s response to the UPR 3rd cycle recommendations, and held a discussion on how EU […]
Executive Director Myeongchul Ahn gives special lecture on North Korean political prison camps at Humbolt University, Berlin, April 24th, 2017
Myeongchul Ahn, Executive Director of NK Watch, attended a seminar hosted by CSO SARAM at Humbolt University, Germany on April 24, 2017 and shared specific information about North Korea’s political prison camps.
Joint North Korean human rights strategy meeting with European civil society, April 23rd, 2017
From April 23rd to 24th, 2017, NK Watch held a joint North Korean human rights strategy meeting with European civil society.South Korea’s CSO International Solidarity for the Elimination of Crimes Against Humanitarian Affairs (ICNK), Germany’s CSO SARAM and Giordano-Bruno-Stiftung, the Netherlands’ Jeffrey Nice Foundation, and the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs attended a strategic meeting […]
NK Watch, UN Human Rights Council Working Group Meeting, March 2017
NK Watch, at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, March 14, 2017, shared North Korean human rights information with the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, and the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery. At the meeting, […]
