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There is a disturbing reality of the grotesque human right violations that continue in North Korea...

A petition urging more awareness and action against North Korean labour camps. Sign here! 

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Amazing original songs by our Dalhousie Camp 14 musicians! 

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This series of images is to inform you about the human rights violations that are taking place in North Korean Labour camps to hundreds of thousands of people RIGHT NOW. Please take the time to share this and spread the word.

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Another amazing poster from our march. We know that there are over 200,000 victims in North Korean labour camps, we know that North Koreans are starving and tortured. It's time to do something about it. 

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A short interview with Shin Dong-hyuk sharing his horrific experiences. The actions starts with him and continues with us. 

Interview with Shin Dong Hyuk - Escape from Camp 14, North Korea

Interview with Shin Dong-hyuk about his experiences in a North Korean prison camp and his dramatic escape. He is the only person born in a North Korean political prison who has ever escaped. Interview conducted in April 2012. © Amnesty International

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The trailer for the documentary “Camp 14- Total Control Zone”, about Shin Dong-hyuk. It was the official selection of many countries including Poland, Canada, Germany and organisations such as Movies that Matter, Human Rights Warsaw, Human Rights New York. The movie is the winner of the Best Film Award Human Rights Geneva, Best Political Film Bukarest, Golden Butterfly Award, Student’s Choice Award of Movies that Matter and many more. 

The full movie can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb1iwo4txE4 

More information: http://www.camp14-film.com/Camp_14/Home.html

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Camp 14 - Total Control Zone

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"All in all it is a very horrifying story, the like of which I don’t think I’ve seen or read of since the Khmer Rouge [in Cambodia] and the Nazi atrocities during the second world war," the official said of North Korea’s prisons.

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Our Development and Activism class all came together for a final picture to end our march.

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Kim Jong-Un’s succession as North Korea’s supreme leader after the death of his father, Kim Jong-Il, in December 2011 had little impact on the country’s dire human rights record.

Here's a link to a 2013 human rights report on North Korea's various human rights abuses, such as labour camps, the use of torture and executions, as well as famines and food shortages. 

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We made the news! 

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Here's a video from Dalhousie University's Camp 14 march held on November 22, with opening commentary from my fellow classmate. 

Video and pictures all by Jaryd Justice-Moote.

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"We are all human, we all deserve equal rights"

Picture courtesy of Annabel Westell

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Author John Green talking about "Escape from Camp 14" by Blaine Harden. 

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"All in all it is a very horrifying story, the like of which I don’t think I’ve seen or read of since the Khmer Rouge [in Cambodia] and the Nazi atrocities during the second world war," the official said of North Korea’s prisons.

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North Korea: What Do We Know? WITH: H.E. Baek Seung Joo, Vice Minister of National Defense, Republic of Korea; Dr. Sue Mi Terry, Senior Research Scholar, Columbia University Weatherhead East Asian Institute HOSTED BY: Mr. John MacDonell, Partner, Stewart McKelvey

This is on the Halifax International Security Forum's agenda. The fact of the matter is that we know a lot, it's time for other's to listen and act! 

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Our class came together on November 22 to march to pressure the 2013 Halifax International Security Forum to act against the grievous human rights abuses within North Korea.  "Today, the most prolific thinkers on international security, decision-makers, military experts and writers joined together in Halifax, Canada to open the fifth annual Halifax International Security Forum, one of the most significant forums in the world."

It's time for us to make significant changes for those who've had their voices taken from them. It's time for our "prolific thinkers" to do something.