2018 Democracy Award Recipient: Transitional Justice Working Group

The Seoul-based non-profit Transitional Justice Working Group (TJWG) was founded in September 2014 to collect, document and visualize evidence of crimes against humanity in North Korea to support the ongoing effort to hold perpetrators accountable, and to bring victims’ needs and rights to mainstream awareness. Additionally, TJWG works on capacity building projects for Korean civil society.

*Represented by Hubert Younghwan Lee and Sehyek Oh

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Hubert Younghwan Lee

Hubert Younghwan Lee is the executive director and founder of the Transitional Justice Working Group (TJWG), designing projects and overseeing the operation of the organization. Lee has over ten years of first-hand research and advocacy experience on North Korean human rights issues, and has been engaged in training human rights activists in South Korea.

Sehyek Oh

Sehyek Oh is lead researcher at the Transitional Justice Working Group (TJWG). He left North Korea in 1999 and today interviews other defectors and victims of North Korean human rights abuses.

2018 Democracy Award Recipients

Honoring the Civil Society Movement for Human Rights and Democracy in North Korea

UNIFICATION MEDIA GROUP

UMG aims to provide residents of North Korea with credible, timely news and information, while reporting to the international community uncensored news from within the country.

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TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE WORKING GROUP

TJWG collects, documents and visualizes evidence of crimes against humanity in North Korea to support the ongoing effort to hold perpetrators accountable, and to bring victims’ needs and rights to mainstream awareness.

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CITIZENS ALLIANCE FOR NORTH KOREAN HUMAN RIGHTS

NKHR is the world’s first and oldest NGO devoted fully to the advancement of North Korean human rights.

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NOW ACTION & UNITY FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

NAUH has been working to improve human rights conditions in North Korea and achieve a unified Korean Peninsula.

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