Lobby organisation
Committee for Human Rights in North Korea
NGO or non-profit · Human rights & humanitarian · HQ: United States · Transparency Register entry
As of 8 October 2026, Committee for Human Rights in North Korea appears in 6 declared MEP meetings (4 different MEPs), most often with European People's Party.
In their own words
“HRNK is a non-partisan, non-profit organization that was founded in 2001 to promote human rights in North Korea. Our goals include the closure of North Korea's prison camps, opening of the country's borders, and improvements in access to information, food, and quality of life for all North Korean citizens.”
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“We work towards these goals through collaboration with scholars, North Korean escapees, satellite imagery experts, and other leaders to publish original research, hold events, and share our findings with universities, the general public, U.S. government, EU, and UN. Our research and publication activities focus on how the North Korean totalitarian regime abuses the rights of its citizens, its vast system of political prisons and labor camps, the regime’s denial of equal access to food and goods, and the plight of refugees fleeing to China.”
Stated goals from the organisation's own Transparency Register filing.
Who they meet, and when
Which groups they meet
Share of this organisation's 6 declared meetings, by the meeting MEP's political group.
Meetings by year
Declared meetings per calendar year, 2023–2024. Bar length is relative to its busiest year (4 in 2024).
Group is each MEP's current political group, not necessarily the one they sat with at the time. Shares are rounded to whole percent.
The MEPs they meet most
The 6 most recent declared meetings
| Date | MEP | Subject |
|---|---|---|
| 16 Dec 2024 | César Luena | Delegation for the relations with the Korean Peninsula, DKOR |
| 6 Dec 2024 | Hanna Gedin | Human Rights |
| 12 Nov 2024 | Rasa Juknevičienė | Exchange of views on the situation in North Korea and NK's involvement in the war against Ukraine |
| 5 Nov 2024 | Bert-Jan Ruissen | Mensenrechten Noord-Korea |
| 29 Nov 2023 | Rasa Juknevičienė | Attendance of the conference "North Korea's Expanding Reach: Security, Human Rights, and Global Implications", co-organized with The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea |
| 15 Mar 2023 | César Luena | MEP Luena's Team on Developments on the Korean Peninsula |
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