Yeonmi Park, the 21-year-old North Korean defector and human rights activist, discussed her new book, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom, with moderator David Hawk from the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea.
Yeonmi Park: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom
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About the Author
Yeonmi Park is a 21-year-old North Korean defector. She escaped North Korea as a teenager with her family and now works as a human rights activist, seeking to bring attention to the horrors of the political oppression in her home country. She lives in Seoul, South Korea and New York.
About the Book
A harrowing escape from tyranny and into a new life of advocacy, from North Korean defector and human rights activist Yeonmi Park.
About the Moderator
Over several decades of high-level involvement in the field of international human rights, David Hawk has engaged in the documentation and analysis of worst case violations, the UN human rights system, human rights provisions in conflict resolution, non-governmental human rights advocacy, human rights organization and agency management, and human rights education and training. He is recognized as a leading expert on human rights in a number of countries, most notably Cambodia and North Korea. Hawk was the Executive Director of Amnesty International, USA, during its formative stage in the 1970s. He also directed the UN human rights office, during the mid-1990s when it was the largest field operation of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. In the early 1980s, Hawk did path-breaking original photographic and archival documentation of the human rights atrocities in Cambodia under Khmer Rouge rule, and researched and authored the first systematic and comprehensive documentation and analysis of the political prison camp system in North Korea. He has served on the Board of Directors of AIUSA and Human Rights Watch/Asia. His most recent publications include The Hidden Gulag and Pursuing Peace While Advancing Rights: The Untried Approach to North Korea. He attended Cornell, Columbia and Oxford Universities, and currently teaches at Hunter College, CUNY.
