UN and North Korea
“How the new UN human rights envoy can make a difference for North Koreans,” NKNews/NK Pro, July 14, 2022 (https://www.nknews.org/pro/how-the-new-un-human-rights-envoy-can-make-a-difference-for-north-koreans/)
“Holding to account: UN resolutions on DPRK human rights are not dead letters,” NK News/NK Pro, December 17, 2021 (https://www.nknews.org/pro/holding-to-account-un-resolutions-on-dprk-human-rights-are-not-dead-letters/)
Statement at HRNK panel on the Role of the UN, July 1, 2021 (https://youtu.be/vmtlcMa_MOQ)
Human Rights Strategies North Korea
Statement at Ministry of Unification/HRNK meeting on Lessons Learned from the Soviet Union, 35 Years Since the Fall of the Berlin Wall, November 13, 2024 (https://robertacohenhumanrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/nk-st-2024-hrnkmou-meeting-pdf-for-website.pdf)
Protecting North Korean Refugees
Testimony, House Foreign Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Human Rights, and International Organizations, December 12, 2017 (https://www.hrnk.org/events/congressional-hearings-view.php?id=13)
Article, China’s Forced Repatriation of North Korean Refugees, International Journal of Korean Studies, Summer 2014 (http://icks.org/data/ijks/1482467285_add_file_4.pdf)
Negotiating Human Rights with North Korea
“It’s time to refocus on what Biden can do on North Korean human rights,” Brookings (with Andrew Yeo), October 4, 2022 (https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2022/10/04/its-time-to-refocus-on-what-biden-can-do-on-north-korean-human-rights/)
Letter to Editor, “Engage North Korea, but hold it accountable,” Letter to Editor, Washington Post, August 30, 2021 (http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/letters-to-the-editor/engage-north-korea-but-hold-it-accountable/2021/08/29/3271300c-06a4-11ec-b3c4-c462b1edcfc8_story.html)
Statement at CSIS panel on Robert King’s Patterns of Impunity and the Role of the Special Envoy, June 17, 2021 (https://www.csis.org/events/patterns-impunity-human-rights-north-korea-and-role-us-special-envoy)
“Why the United States Needs a Special Envoy on North Korean Human Rights,” 38 North, January 26, 2021 (https://www.38north.org/tag/roberta-cohen/)
Statement at HRNK panel on the role of the Special Envoy, December 15, 2020 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccD1h_BF7KQ)
Testimony before House Foreign Affairs Committee’s Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, September 13, 2018 (https://humanrightscommission.house.gov/events/hearings/north-korea-denuclearization-talks-and-human-rights)
“Let’s End Pyongyang’s Game of Political Detentions,” 38 North, May 24, 2018 (https://www.38north.org/2018/05/rcohen052418/)
“A Serious Human Rights Negotiation with North Korea,” 38 North, February 1, 2017 (https://www.38north.org/2017/02/rcohen020117/)
Accountability for North Korean Human Rights Violations
Statement at IBA/HRNK Inquiry on Crimes Against Humanity in Detention Centers, June 27, 2022 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXRMNt2kdMI)
Statement at Stanford panel on The UN’s Role in Accountability, April 12, 2021 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH-icKR_xqQ)
War on the Korean Peninsula
“Humanitarian Consequences of War on the Korean Peninsula,” Statement at Brookings Institution event, Thinking the Unthinkable: War on the Korean Peninsula, March 13, 2018 (https://www.brookings.edu/events/thinking-the-unthinkable-war-on-the-korean-peninsu)
Humanitarian Aid
“Food Insecurity in North Korea,” keynote at Yonsei University, Seoul, March 19, 2023 (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1XzT5rbnG8VSTO_aUTBrw8gC4Ps5jLIaM)
Statement at USIP panel on Lost Generation: Health and Human Rights of North Korea’s Children, January 31, 2020
“U.S. Humanitarian Aid should come with Concessions from Pyongyang,” The Washington Post, May 12, 2019 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/us-humanitarian-aid-should-come-with-concessions-from-pyongyang/2019/05/12/b18d6ffc-7355-11e9-9331-30bc5836f48e_story.html?utm_term=.0654abbc87b7)
“UN Humanitarian Actors and North Korea’s Prison Camps,” International Journal of Korean Studies, Spring/Summer 2017 (http://icks.org/n/bbs/content.php?co_id=SPRING_SUMMER_2017)
International Responsibility to Protect
“Sovereignty as Responsibility: Building Block for R2P” (with Francis M. Deng), The Oxford Handbook of the Responsibility to Protect, eds., Alex J. Bellamy & Tim Dunne, 2016 (https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-the-responsibility-to-protect-9780198753841?cc=us&lang=en&)
“An R2P Framework for North Korea,” Global R2P, Vol., 8, No. 4, 2016 (http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/1875984x-00804006)
Internally Displaced Persons
The Development of the Guiding Principles, 25th Anniversary Conference, UNHCR, April 17, 2023 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nLDlpo5Xy0)
“Reflections: Developing the Normative Framework for IDPs” (with Francis M. Deng), International Journal of Refugee Law, 30:2, 2018
“Lessons Learned from the Development of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement,” Georgetown University, Institute for the Study of International Migration, October 2013 (https://www.brookings.edu/research/lessons-learned-from-the-development-of-the-guiding-principles-on-internal-displacement/)
Human Rights and US Foreign Policy
Roberta Cohen Human Rights 