Projects

Mapping Crimes against Humanity in North Korea

TJWG maps the locations of suspected mass graves, sites of human rights violations, and possible repositories of documentation relating to human rights abuses.

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Civil Society Central Repository for Missing Persons

TJWG in consortium with Citizens' Alliance for North Korean Human rights (NKHR) is in the early stages of creating a central repository of cases of enforced disappearances perpetrated by North Korean authorities.

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Access Accountability

Access Accountability provides training and resources for human rights documentation groups globally by identifying areas of need and matching them with the expertise required to achieve their goals.

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Complementary Research

TJWG conducts complementary research regarding defector attitudes toward a range of transitional justice-related issues.

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Latest Press

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10 Jun

Eyewitnesses help document public executions in North Korea for a day of reckoning

As a boy of about 9 or 10, Kang Chun Hyok waded between grown-ups’ legs and made his way to the front of a crowd of hundreds assembled near a brick factory in his hometown, not far from North Korea’s border with China. www.latimes.com more

27 Feb

Half of North Korean defectors suffered violence, but rights is not a top summit issue

About half of 451 North Korean defectors questioned in a survey endured physical violence at the hands of North Korean authorities, a rights group has said as leader Kim Jong Un prepared to meet U.S. President Donald Trump for a summit.
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27 Feb