North Korea

Citizens' Alliance for North Korean Human Rights
$175,000*
To bring North Korean human rights issues to South Korean and international attention. The Alliance will conduct research into and dissemination of eyewitness accounts of human rights abuses and prison camp operations in North Korea.

Database Center for North Korean Human Rights
$50,000*
To serve as a resource for the human rights community. The center will carry out research on human rights conditions in North Korea and construct a database that serves as a repository of testimony and documentation.

Democracy Network against the North Korean Gulag (NKGulag)
$75,000*
To carry out human rights research and advocacy, providing a unique voice as the first human rights organization founded by survivors of the North Korean gulag. NKGulag will publish two annual reports, one on the situation of North Korean refugees in neighboring countries, and one covering rights abuses at all levels of the North Korean system, including the prison-camp gulag. NKGulag will additionally maintain a directory of victims and implement a program of education for South Koreans.

Network for North Korean Democracy and Human Rights (NKnet)
$85,000
To pursue a wide-ranging program of research, campaigns, and public education designed to draw South Korean and international attention to issues of democratization and human rights in North Korea. NKnet will publish periodicals, maintain the DailyNK bilingual news website, and conduct workshops.

Piraya Film
$15,315*
To draw attention to human rights abuses committed in North Korea's political prisoner concentration camps. Piraya Films will organize, produce, and film a theater play about life in the Yo Dok camp, which will be performed by survivors of the camps.