Alex Gladstein, chief strategy officer of the Human Rights Foundation, describes initiatives to deliver information into North Korea with the aim of bolstering civil society. He focuses on one particular effort that involves the distribution flash drives loaded with content selected by North Korean defectors.
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Smuggling the outside world into North Korea
“The World” television program on ABC News 24 in Australia interviewed HRF chief strategy officer Alex Gladstein about the initiative “Flash Drives for Freedom,” which collects flash drives from Americans and then ship them to North Korean defector groups. These organizations will then fill the USB drives with films, TV shows, and Wikipedia pages andContinue reading “Smuggling the outside world into North Korea”
Bomben som reddet Terje Håkonsen | Alex Gladstein
Det måtte en kjernefysisk bombe til for hindre at Norges største snowboardstjerne, Terje Håkonsen, havnet på listen over kjendiser som kaster glans over Nord-Koreas diktatur.
How North Korea’s Marchers for Peace Became Fellow Travelers
The Nobel Laureates and prominent activists who recently crossed into North Korea showed a shocking lack of sympathy for the North Korean people.
North Korea’s Fellow Travelers
Gloria Steinem, two Nobel Laureates, and 26 other women will be making a big mistake if they march across the DMZ with Christine Ahn.
Erykah Badu’s Oppressively Apolitical Stance on Human Rights
Gloria Steinem, two Nobel Laureates, and 26 other women will be making a big mistake if they march across the DMZ with Christine Ahn.
Africa’s Game of Thrones
The hazards of human-rights work in the continent’s last absolute monarchy
Mourning a Musical Dissident
The story of Cameroon’s late ‘Guitar Man,’ who spent his life fighting to take down a brutal autocrat.
Requiem for a Reprobate: Ethiopian Tyrant Should Not Be Lionized
With the dust beginning to settle on yesterday’s death of Meles Zenawi—ruler of Ethiopia since 1991—Western leaders have been quick to lavish praise on his legacy. A darling of the national security and international development industries, Zenawi was applauded for cooperating with the U.S. government on counter-terrorism and for spurring economic growth in Ethiopia—an impoverished, land-locked AfricanContinue reading “Requiem for a Reprobate: Ethiopian Tyrant Should Not Be Lionized”
Hope for Obiang, but Not Equatorial Guinea
Beginning next week on August 20 in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea the world’s longest-ruling non-royal—Teodoro Obiang Nguema—will host a “human rights” summit. It is being organized by a US-based charity, the Leon H. Sullivan Foundation, which is headed by Hope Sullivan Masters and includes president Bill Clinton as co-chairman of the board and former UN Ambassador Andrew Young as its other co-chairman. The effort is part of Obiang’s systematic effort to whitewash his repressive regime and sweep 33 years of dictatorship and 44 years of human rights violations, under the rug as his government continues to amass oil wealth.
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