Jubilee Campaign

WASHINGTON, D.C., 13 October 2026 | Impunity for state-facilitated forced religious conversions and child marriages involving Christian and other minority girls, extrajudicial killings, and the arbitrary detention of individuals accused of blasphemy are the key issues Jubilee Campaign, ExMuslims of North America and the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom raise during the Jubilee […]

Increasingly over the years, North Korean defectors have cited South Korean television dramas (K-dramas for short) as an impetus for their escape from the Hermit Kingdom. The experiences of ordinary people depicted in K-dramas – romantic, uninhibited, exciting, indulgent – sow the seeds of doubt in North Koreans’ minds. Is it possible that the Great Comrade Kim

Last week, we shared with you the reality of life as a woman in North Korea. Daily routines rarely vary, and weeks blend into months and years. At the crack of dawn, mothers scrounge up what little resources they have – grain, herbs, cornmeal, and tofu dregs – to concoct a porridge breakfast that can barely sustain their lives and the

This August, we submitted our annual written contributions on the human rights experiences of North Korean women – in their home country, in China as migrants, and in South Korea as hopeful compatriots. And, like in previous years, we had little progress to report on; in fact, in some respects there has been a regression

WASHINGTON, D.C.,22 August 2026 | On occasion of the International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief, 22nd August 2026, over 30 members of the International Religious Freedom Roundtable (IRF RT) in DC, the Religious Liberty Partnership and several key actors in the religious freedom space have signed onto a letter to the Ambassador