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The Hidden People of North Korea: Everyday Life in the Hermit Kingdom
Event Information November 10, 200910:00 AM - 11:30 AM ESTFalk AuditoriumThe Brookings Institution1775 Massachusetts Ave., NWWashington, DC Register for the EventFor decades, the people of North Korea...
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Reconciling Responsibility to Protect with IDP Protection
INTRODUCTIONThe concept of the responsibility to protect (R2P) developed in large measure from efforts to design an international system to protect internally displaced persons (IDPs). The explosion...
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Human Rights: A Means of Engaging North Korea
Editor's Note: This piece originally appeared in 38 North, a website devoted to the analysis of North Korea and produced by the U.S.- Korea Insitute at the Paul H. Nitze School for Advanced...
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Improving the U.S. Response to Internal Displacement: Recommendations to the...
The United States response to humanitarian emergencies is critical in determining how effectively refugees, internally displaced persons (IDPs), and other affected populations are dealt with by the...
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Improving the U.S. Response to Internal Displacement
Event Information June 30, 201010:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDTFalk AuditoriumThe Brookings Institution1775 Massachusetts Ave., NWWashington, DC Register for the EventAs the single largest donor of...
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Legal Grounds for Protection of North Korean Refugees
Several years ago, a senior Chinese diplomat told me that his government does not consider North Koreans who cross into China to be refugees. They are like Mexicans, he said, who illegally enter the...
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The Rationale for a Foreign Policy that Takes the Cause of Women Seriously
Event Information October 28, 201010:30 AM - 12:00 PM EDTSaul/Zilkha RoomsThe Brookings Institution1775 Massachusetts Avenue, NWWashington, DC 20036 Register for the EventIn recent years, the role of...
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Disasters and Displacement: Gaps in Protection
This article was originally published in the Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies, vol. 1, 2010 Introduction It took one of the world’s deadliest disasters, the tsunami of 2004,...
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Around the Halls: Remembering Richard Holbrooke
Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, who helped shape American foreign policy from the Vietnam War to the conflict in Afghanistan and Pakistan, including brokering the 1995 accord that ended the war in...
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Looking to the Future in Sudan
This letter to the editor originally appeared in the New York Times on January 14, 2011. President Obama is right to draw attention to the need for managing refugee returns to southern Sudan and also...
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On Libya, Our Policy Became a Hostage
This letter to the editor by Roberta Cohen originally appeared in the Washington Post on March 2, 2011. The Feb. 27 front-page story "Threat to Americans guided restrained Libya response" provided a...
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Kim Jong Il and the Hunger Problem
Once again famine threatens the lives of North Koreans. But this time, the United States -- the world’s single largest humanitarian donor -- hesitates to respond.Timing, however, is critical. No one...
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Protracted Refugee Situations: An Iraq Case Study
On April 20, 2011, Roberta Cohen addressed American University’s Washington College of Law on the topic of protracted refugee situations. The beginning of her speech follows, and the full speech is...
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Hunger in North Korea: Time for a Decision
Hunger once again stalks North Korea. Three needs assessment missions have so certified, and have recommended immediate food deliveries. In February, five American relief organizations—including Mercy...
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Admitting North Korean Refugees to the United States: Obstacles and...
“The numbers are too small,” a Korean American told me, referring to the fact that the United States has admitted only 122 North Korean refugees to this country since the adoption of the North Korea...
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Women Responding to War
Whatever would Aristophanes, the Greek playwright of antiquity, think of the new PBS documentary, Women, War and Peace? In his play Lysistrata performed in the fifth century B.C., Aristophanes...
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"From Responsibility to Response" Report Launch
Event Information December 5, 201110:00 AM - 11:30 AM ESTStein RoomThe Brookings Institution1775 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.Washington, DC 20036 On December 5, 2011, the Brookings-LSE Project on...
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China's Repatriation of North Korean Refugees
Editor's Note: In testimony submitted to the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, Roberta Cohen discusses the pressing need to defend the right of North Koreans to leave their country and seek...
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Human Rights Progress In North Korea: Is It Possible?
This article was published in 38 North and the original article can be viewed here. Despite hopes, even predictions that Kim Jong Il’s death might usher in progress on human rights in North Korea, no...
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North Korea, Human Rights and Chen Guangcheng
The bold escape from house arrest of Chinese human rights dissident Chen Guangcheng captured world attention and became a principal item on the US-China agenda. Is there anything to be learned from...
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