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CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

-- Voter Registration and community organizing in Mississippi and Georgia

during the 1960s civil rights movement;

-- Leadership positions in opposition to the escalation of the war in Vietnam;

-- Executive Director of Amnesty International, USA during its formative stages

in the 1970s;

-- Path-breaking research, document and analysis of the Khmer Rouge atrocities

in Cambodia under the auspices of the Columbia University Center for the Study

of Human Rights;

-- Pioneered human rights education and training for Cambodians, and the

insertion of human rights provisions into the comprehensive peace agreements

and UN peace-keeping mission to Cambodia;

-- Directed the Cambodia Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human

Rights, then the largest UN human rights field office;

-- Path-breaking research, documentation and analysis of the political prison camp

system in North Korea.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Visiting Scholar, Columbia University, Institute for the Study of Human Rights

2011 and 2012

Reviewing the human rights policies of the Obama Administration

Adjunct Lecturer, Hunter College, City University of New York

Spring and Fall Semester 2011, Fall Semester 2012

Teaching courses on Human Rights and Religion, and Genocide and Crimes Against

Humanity

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Consultant, Human Rights and International Affairs

Committee for Human Rights in North Korea

Washington DC, 2009 to present

Research and writing for the second edition of The Hidden Gulag:

Exposing North Korea s Prison Camps Prisoner Testimony and Satellite Photographs

(Second Edition).

Reagan-Fascell Fellow,

International Forum for Democratic Studies

National Endowment for Democracy

Washington, D.C. March to July 2008

Investigated human rights, governance and transparency provisions regarding bi-lateral

and multilateral assistance to North Korea in the event of progress toward the elimination

of North Korea s nuclear weapons program.

Freedom House

New York, NY (August 2006 to July 2007)

Analyzed the phenomena of repression associated with the North Korean gulag system

according the elements of crimes against humanity as set forth in Article 7 of the Rome

Statute of the International Criminal Court and parallel provisions from the Ad Hoc

Tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia. Authored report, Concentrations of

Inhumanity, published in May 2007 in English and July 2007 in Korean. Presented

findings at UN Human Rights Council parallel meeting, Geneva, March 2007. Made

presentations for Freedom House in Washington, Rome, Gdansk, Seoul, Toronto and

Ottawa.

Designed strategy for including human rights issues in the Working Groups at the

Beijing-based Six Party Talks and met past and present US negotiators to discuss

potential human rights components in the North Korean de-nuclearization process.

Designed strategy for raising DPRK state-responsibility, individual accountability,

and responsibility to protect in the UN system. Conducted trainings for South Korean

and Korean-American student activists in Seoul and Berkeley, California.

US Commission on International Religious Freedom

Washington, DC (November 2004 December 2005)

Researched freedom of thought, conscience, religion and belief in North Korea based on

extensive interviews with former North Korean refugees now resident in South Korea,

and authored one hundred page report Thank You Father Kim Il Sung: Eyewitness

Accounts of Severe Violations of Freedom of Thought Conscience and Religion in North

Korea published in November 2005 and in Korean in 2006. Presented findings to UN

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Ambassadors luncheon at UN Commission on Human Rights, Geneva, March 2005.

US Committee for Human Rights in North Korea

Washington, DC (August 2002 November 2004)

Researched and authored landmark 120 page report, The Hidden Gulag: Exposing North

Korea s Prison Camps Prisoner s Testimonies and Satellite Photographs, based on

extensive in-depth interviews with North Korean refugees who recently obtained asylum

in South Korea. The report was translated into Korean and Japanese and published in

book format in Seoul and Tokyo.

Organized a successful advocacy campaign at the 2003 and 2004 UN Commission on

Human Rights to secure the first-ever UN resolutions recognizing and condemning gross

human rights violations and unsatisfactory humanitarian practices in the Peoples

Democratic Republic of Korea. Testified on North Korean political forced labor camp

system to Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Lectured on North Korea at numerous

universities including Harvard, Cornell, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia, Stanford,

UC Berkeley, University of Texas, Fordham, Seoul National University and Handong

University, Korea. Participated in numerous conferences, seminars and consultations on

strategic and political developments on the Korean peninsula.

Landmine Survivors Network

Washington, DC (June 1999- 2004)

Conducted needs assessment, designed program, drafted and negotiated Memoranda of

Understanding and Agreement for a program of assistance and peer group support to

amputees in Quang Binh Province, Vietnam; investigated the prospects and requirements

for the employment of disabled persons in Cambodia s garment industry; conducted

feasibility study and assisted campaign strategy for United States accession to the 1997

Landmine Ban Treaty; designed campaign strategy for and attended the 2003 and 2004

meetings of the Ad Hoc Committee (of the General Assembly) for Consideration of

Proposals for a Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

United Nations

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Cambodia Office, Phnom Penh

Head of Office (July 1996 - January 1998)

Chief, Education, Training and Information Unit (November 1995-June 1996;

January 1998-March 1999)

Responsibilities: Head of Office

Represented the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to the Royal

Government of Cambodia, the diplomatic corps, UN Agencies, non-governmental

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organizations, press and media in Cambodia.

Provided overall leadership and direction for the Cambodia Office, a UN field operation

of fifty staff persons stationed in twelve provinces and Phnom Penh, with an annual

budget of three to four million dollars.

Oversaw the implementation of technical cooperation programs, including legal

assistance to the National Assembly and Government ministries, education, training and

information programs for the judiciary, armed forces, police, teachers, other officials, and

NGO staff and members at the national, provincial and local levels.

Assured -- in cooperation with the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for

Human Rights in Cambodia -- the protection of the human rights of all persons in

Cambodia, including overseeing the monitoring, investigating and reporting of human

rights violations; advised and assisted the Special Representative on his official missions

to Cambodia and managed the necessary follow-up, including confidential

communications with the Government of Cambodia, and public reports.

Developed and implemented programs and policies of cooperation with other UN

agencies, programs and funds, intergovernmental organizations, bilateral assistance

programs, foundations and NGOs including the preparation of project documents and

funding proposals, and including the preparation of reports to the UN General Assembly

and Commission on Human Rights.

Responsibilities: Chief of Education, Training and Information Unit

Developed, managed and supervised substantial education, training and information

programs in human rights for the Cambodian Government, NGOs, and targeted publics.

Commissioned or oversaw the preparation of curricula, training and information

materials for various target groups such as police and military personnel, members of the

judiciary, school teachers, clergy, local government officials, women, minorities, and

other targeted groups.

Promoted public awareness of human rights and coordinated the translation and

distribution of existing UN instruments, publications and relevant Cambodian laws.

Developed and managed a large-scale program of support to Cambodian NGOs financed

through the UN Trust Fund for Human Rights Education in Cambodia.

Developed and managed programs of support to vulnerable groups such as women,

children and minorities.

Assisted the Cambodian Government in the preparation of reports to UN treaty

implementation review bodies for the human rights conventions ratified by Cambodia.

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Consultant, Human Rights and International Affairs

New York, (1994 - 1995)

Principal author of chapters on ethnic minorities in Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos,

Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, World Handbook on Minorities,

Minority Rights Group, London, England, 1996.

Participated in Amnesty International mission to Rwanda-Burundi and contributed to AI

report making recommendations for action by international community (June-July 1995).

Revised, up-dated and edited report on "Ethnic Minorities in Cambodia" for the Minority

Rights Group, London, England, 1995.

Investigated Rwandan genocide through detailed reconstruction of selected

massacres, and prepared report for the US Committee for Refugees,

Washington D.C. (July-Sept. 1994).

Organized human rights educational and training exchange programs for Cambodian and

Indonesian human rights activists for the Puebla Institute and the National Forum

Foundation, Washington, D.C., 1994-1995.

Executive Director, Cambodia Documentation Commission

New York, (1983 to 1994)

Founded NGO composed of Cambodian refugee leaders, human rights and international

law specialists to promote and protect human rights in Cambodia and seek accountability

for the grave violations of international law committed under Khmer Rouge rule.

Developed strategy and organized planning, fundraising, public relations, and general

management; wrote or edited research papers, reports, petitions and appeals; conducted

press conferences and briefing sessions for radio, TV and print media.

Monitored and reported on annual deliberations at the General Assembly and UN

Commission Human Rights, peace conferences and negotiations, and the UN peace-

keeping mission in Cambodia.

Organized the translation of fifteen major international human rights conventions and

declarations into the Khmer language.

Developed and conducted human rights education, teacher and monitoring training

programs in Cambodia and the refugee encampments in Thailand.

Lobbied signatories to the Genocide Convention to take legal action against the Khmer

Rouge at the International Court of Justice.

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Successfully lobbied Permanent Members of the Security Council to include stronger

human rights provisions in the 1991 Cambodian peace treaty.

Successfully lobbied Cambodian political leaders to ratify major human rights treaties.

Fellow, Columbia University Center for the Study of Human Rights

New York (1982-1988)

Conducted and organized oral histories with survivors of the Cambodian genocide,

gathered archival and photographic documentation, and organized scholarly and legal

research on the grave violations of international law in Cambodia under Khmer Rouge

rule in order to collect and/or produce evidentiary and legal analyses necessary for

potential proceedings before the International Court of Justice by States Parties to the

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

Co-authored a 200-page model legal brief, "The Case Against the Standing Committee of

the Communist Party of Kampuchea.

Adjunct Lecturer, Hunter College, City University of New York

New York (Fall and Winter 1982)

Taught course on international human rights, Dept. of Philosophy, Program on Religion.

Director, Khmer Program, World Conference on Religion and Peace

Bangkok, Thailand (1980-1981)

Monitored the largest (up to that time) UN refugee and humanitarian relief operation for a

NGO in Consultative Status with ECOSOC.

Prepared reports for circulation within the UN system.

Provided in-depth briefings and coordinated on-site visits for parliamentarians and donor

agency officials to refugee encampments along the Thai-Cambodia border.

Consultant, Amnesty International

New York, Washington, London (Fall 1978-Spring 1980)

Lobbied Department of State, White House and Congress and organized legal, human

rights, religious and labor groups to press for U.S. ratification of UN human rights

conventions.

Formulated strategy and background papers for set of hearings by Senate Foreign

Relations Committee on the International Human Rights Covenants.

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Researched and designed an international education and lobbying campaign on the

human rights conventions for the London-based Secretariat of Amnesty International.

Executive Director, Amnesty International, USA

New York (1974-1978)

Planned, reorganized and directed growth of United States section of the 1978 Nobel

Prize winning human rights organization. Oversaw growth of AIUSA budget from

$250,000 to $2 million per year and supervised national staff expansion from three to

twenty persons.

Expanded program to include rapid response mechanisms, publicity campaigns on

specific countries and global phenomena of repression as well as group letter writing

campaigns for individual political prisoners.

Opened Washington D.C. office to advocate greater role for human rights considerations

in formation of US policy.

Consultant, National Council of Churches

New York (Fall and Winter 1971)

Designed ecumenical conference and commission on U.S. policy in Indochina

Co-Founder and National Coordinator, Vietnam Moratorium Committee

Washington D.C. (1969-70)

Organized the broad-based, large-scale public rallies known as the "Moratoriums" of

15 October and 14-16 November 1969.

Vietnam and Draft Coordinator, National Student Association

Washington, DC (Spring 1967 Summer 1969)

Case Worker, New York State Department of Social Services

Central Harlem, New York (Fall 1967)

Counselor and Youth Worker, Greene Avenue Methodist Church

Bushwick/Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, (Weekends1965-1967)

Voter Registration and Community Organizer, Southwest Georgia Project

Cordelle, Georgia (Summer 1966)

Organized tenants council in low income housing project and assisted voter registration

and education drive by civil rights and church groups.

Voter Registration and Community Organizer, Council of Federated Organizations

Hattiesburg, Mississippi (Summer 1964)

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Worked on voter registration and education campaign for coalition of civil rights and

church groups known as "Mississippi Freedom Summer."

PUBLICATIONS

(Partial Listing)

The Hidden Gulag (second edition): The Lives and Voices of Those Who are Sent to the

Mountains Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, Washington DC, April 2012.

230 pages.

Pursuing Peace While Advancing Rights: The Untried Approach to North Korea,

U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS),

Washington, DC, May 2010.

Appendix: Human Rights Issues During Phase Three of the Six Party Talks on the

Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula in Failure To Protect: the Ongoing Challenge

of North Korea, Havel, Bondevik and Wiesel, DLA Piper, the Committee for Human

Rights in North Korea, and The Oslo Center for Peace and Human Rights, September,

2008

Introduction, A Prison Without Bars: Refugee and Defector Testimony of Severe

Violations of Freedom of Religion or Belief in North Korea, US Commission on

International Religious Freedom, Washington DC, March 2008.

The Realities and Policies of Third-World Nations Regarding North Korean Defectors,

with an Emphasis on Mongolia and Thailand, International Trends Concerning Human

Rights for North Korean Defectors, National Human Rights Commission of Korea,

Seoul, November 2007.

Concentrations of Inhumanity: An Analysis of the Phenomena of Repression Associated

with North Korea s Kwan-li-so Political Penal Labor Camps According to the Terms and

Provisions of Article 7 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and the

Parallel Provisions of Customary International Law on Crimes Against Humanity, 65

pages, Freedom House, Washington, May 2007, Korean translation, Seoul, July 2007.

Factoring Human Rights Into the Dismantlement of Cold War Conflict on the Korean

Peninsula in Human Rights in North Korea, Eds.. Kie-Duck Park and Sang-Jin Han, The

Sejong Institute, Seoul, 2007.

Human Rights and the Crisis in North Korea in North Korea: 2005 and Beyond, Eds.

Philip Yun and Gi-Wook Shin, Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC), Stanford

University/Brookings Press, March 2006

Thank You Father Kim Il Sung: Eyewitness Accounts of Severe Violations of Freedom of

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Thought, Conscience and Religion in North Korea, United States Commission on

International Religious Freedom, Washington DC, November 2005, 106 pages.

Hidden Gulag: Exposing North Korea s Prison Camps Prisoner s Testimonies and

Satellite Photographs, US Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, Washington

DC, November 2003, 120 pages. Korean language edition, Seoul, January 2004.

Japanese language edition, Tokyo, August 2004.

Going to Trial, Or Maybe Not: Notes on Cambodia s Tortuous and Unresolved Path to

Transitional Justice, Brandeis University Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life,

January 2003.

Confronting Genocide in Cambodia, Pioneers in Genocide Studies, Eds. Samuel Totten

and Steve Jacobs, Greenwood Publishers, 2003

Chapters on Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore,

Thailand and Vietnam, World Handbook on Minorities, Minority Rights Group, London

England, 1996.

Rwanda and Burundi: A Call for Action by the International Community, Amnesty

International, London, September 1995 (co-author).

"Genocide in Rwanda: Documentation of Two Massacres during April 1994," U.S.

Committee for Refugees, Washington D.C., October 1994.

Human Rights Aspects of a Comprehensive Solution to the Conflict in Cambodia,

Cambodia Documentation Commission, New York, 1990.

"Torture and Extra-judicial Execution Under Khmer Rouge Rule," Karl Jackson, ed.,

Cambodia 1975-1979: Rendezvous with Death, Princeton University Press, 1989.

"The Cambodian Genocide," Israel Charny, ed., Genocide: A Critical Bibliographical

Review, Mansell Ltd., London, 1988.

"International Human Rights Law and Democratic Kampuchea," Ablin and Hood, eds.,

The Cambodian Agony, M.E. Sharpe, 1987.

"How S.21 Killed 20,000 at Tuol Sleng," Index on Censorship, January 1986 (cover

story).

"Relief and Rehabilitation in Kampuchea," Nishino and Yomaoka, eds., Development

Cooperation in Asia, Waseda University, Tokyo, 1984 (in Japanese).

"Review: Quality of Mercy by William Shawcross, Washington Post Book World, July

15, 1984 (cover review).

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"The Killing of Cambodia: A Report from Phnom Penh," The New Republic, November

15, 1982 (cover story).

Famine Relief, Refugee Flows and Political Stalemate in Cambodia, Waseda

University, Tokyo, November 1981 (in Japanese).

Three Books on Foreign Policy and Human Rights: A Review, Worldview, New York,

March 1980.

Carter s Human Rights Policies at Half Time, The New Republic, April 1979.

(A series of reports written in Bangkok between 1980 and 1982 and in New York

between 1982 and 1992 on the Cambodian refugee crisis, famine relief operation, and

political developments regarding the international conflict in and over Cambodia is

available upon request.)

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

Member, University Seminar on Human Rights, Columbia University, New York, 1982-

1995, 2000-2011; participant in University Seminar on Peace 2006-2007.

International Fellow in Human Rights, Intervention and International Law

Brandeis University Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life, 2001-2003.

Fellow, Columbia University Center for the Study of Human Rights, 1982-1988.

Research Fellow, Indochina Studies Program, Social Science Research Council

New York, 1983-84.

Magdalen College, Oxford University, Oxford England, 1972-1974

Completed two years of graduate study in International Relations.

Activities and Honors: Oxford University Foreign Policy Club (faculty and

graduate students by invitation), Oxford University Strategic Studies Club.

Union Theological Seminary, New York City, 1965-67, 1972, Master of Divinity, 1972

Area of Study: Social Ethics

Activities and Honors: Dean's Assistant, Student Interracial Ministry.

International Fellow, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University,

1970-71

Interdisciplinary seminar program (providing full tuition scholarship to Columbia

graduate school) with SIPA faculty and prominent diplomatic, military and

political authorities.

Cornell University, Ithaca New, New York 1960-1965, Bachelor of Science, 1965

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Area of Study: Industrial-Labor Relations; social and political sciences

Activities and Honors: Dean's List, Junior and Senior Men's Honorary Societies,

Dorm Counselor, All-American Intercollegiate Swim Team.

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