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These regular sessions are led by leading academics, civil servants, and human rights advocates. There are now five different academies, focusing on issues ranging from human rights in North Korea, reunification of the Korean peninsula through a diplomatic approach, and counselling support for North Korean defectors.
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The
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The
Education Center for Korean Integration provides educational opportunities in an effort to increase civil society’s awareness of issues surrounding North Korea and human rights conditions there. These opportunities include academies - a series of lectures by distinguished guests - and forums to
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Ministry of Unification refused to renew an annual contract which gave NKDB access into Hanawon. NKDB conducted research of North Korean Defectors since 2003, with interviews from the Hanawon serving as the core of its annual White Paper. There are now no independent
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NKDB placed a greater focus on bringing greater international awareness of the North Korean human rights situation to the international community in the 2010s. NKDB also enhanced its role in the education of relevant North Korean issues, beginning with the North Korean Human Rights
Academy in 2011.
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With records of over 84,000 cases of human rights infractions and over 54,000 individuals involved in these cases, the North Korean Human Rights
Archives’ NKDB Unified Human Rights Database is the largest of its kind in the world. With human rights violations not being systematically documented
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in 2004. Furthermore, the organization expanded through the establishment of NK Social
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Together for Unification Forum for those who have completed at least one of NKDB's academies. Participants in the Forum meet once a month to discuss inter-Korean issues more deeply, followed by debate on how best to approach the issues in the
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242:(UNVFVT), which supports the organization’s counselling programs for North Korean defectors that have experienced torture prior to arrival in South Korea. NKDB is one of two organizations in South Korea to receive support from the UNVFVT.
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within North Korea, a function of the Archives is to serve as evidence for any future opportunities of transitional justice. Publications based on the Archives contribute to the
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to share the progress that North Korea has made in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and their connection to the human rights situation inside the country.
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North Korea Implementation of UN Recommendations Watch Group
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North Korean Human Rights Case Report: Victims’ Voices
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