North Korea’s Human Catastrophe

By Carl Gershman The Washington Post, Page A23The abandonment by North Korea of its demand for one-on-one negotiations with the United States is a welcome development. Pyongyang has understandably reconsidered the wisdom of its strategy of provoking the United...

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Carl Gershman’s Statement to the Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights Committee on International Relations

Remarks by Carl Gershman, PresidentThe National Endowment for DemocracyChairman Smith, Congresswoman McKinney, and members of the Subcommittee: Thank you for offering me this opportunity to appear before you today to discuss the work of the National Endowment for Democracy...

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Statement to the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on International Operations

September 28, 1989Carl Gershman, President, National Endowment for DemocracyMr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee: I am delighted to have this opportunity to review with you the program of the National Endowment for Democracy for the coming year.

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A Tribute to Bayard Rustin

Delivered by Carl Gershman at the Social Democrats National Convention at the Madison Hotel in Washington, D.C. on December 4, 1987It is now more than three months since Bayard Rustin died. I am tempted to say that it seems like only yesterday that he passed from us, but it...

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