Committee for Human Rights in North Korea

Committee for Human Rights in North Korea

Founded	October 2001
Type	Non-profit NGO
Location	Washington, D.C.
Key people	Gordon Flake (Co-Chair, Board of Directors) Katrina Lantos Swett (Co-Chair, Board of Directors) Roberta Cohen (Co-Chair Emeritus, Board of Directors) Andrew Natsios (Co-Chair Emeritus, Board of Directors) Greg Scarlatoiu (Executive Director)
Website	www.hrnk.org

The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK), formerly known as the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, is a Washington, D.C.-based non-governmental research organization that "seeks to raise awareness about conditions in North Korea and to publish research that focuses the world's attention on human rights abuses in that country."^[1][2]

Founded in 2001 by a group of foreign policy and human rights specialists, HRNK has published reports on issues relevant to North Korean human rights today.^[3] The committee's leadership has testified to Congress about North Korean human rights and China's forced repatriation of North Korean refugees.^[4][5] In April 2012, HRNK held its first major conference on North Korean human rights to launch its publication, The Hidden Gulag, Second Edition, on North Korean political prison camps.^[6]