CPU Newsletter

November 16, 2005

CPU EVENT: (TONIGHT, 8PM) "Human Rights in North Korea" with Debra Liang-Fenton, Executive Director of the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea

The CPU Proudly Presents: Debra Liang-Fenton, Executive Director,
U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea

Date: TONIGHT, 11/16
Time: 8pm
Location: 310 Fayerweather

Description: Debra Liang-Fenton is the Executive Director of the
U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea. She is responsible
for conceptualizing and coordinating all projects undertaken by the
Committee. A broad domestic and international grassroots initiative
on the issue of human rights in North Korea will be executed under
her guidance.

Debra has testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the
subject of North Korean refugees and the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee on life inside North Korea. She is a regular participant
in Congressional hearings and working groups on human rights in
North Korea. She is a member of the Senate Foreign Relations focus
group on North Korean refugees, and the China task force sponsored
by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. Debra
also regularly advises policymakers in the State Department and the
Agency for International Development.

Working in partnership with U.S.-based and international NGOs, Debra
has helped to bring about the European Union resolution on North
Korea this year at the UN Commission on Human Rights. She was the
keynote presenter at Amnesty International's Annual General Meeting
in April 2003. Her work with the media has included appearances on
CNN and Fox; and work with NBC News, CBS News, ABC Primetime, PBS,
NPR, the BBC, ITN Britain, The New York Times, The Washington Post,
The Wall Street Journal, The Far Eastern Economic Review, The
Christian Science Monitor, U.S. News and World Report , Newsweek,
and other international print, television, and radio outlets.

Before joining the Committee, Debra directed the U.S. Institute of
Peace's first Human Rights Implementation Program. She is the
editor of Implementing U.S. Human Rights Policy: Agendas, Policies
and Practices. Debra was a founding editor of the Journal of
Democracy, where she served as Production Editor for three years,
and was Project Officer for the National Endowment for Democracy's
International Forum for Democratic Studies for four years before
joining the Peace Institute. Debra holds a B.A. in political
science from Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, and an M.A. in
politics specializing in Southeast Asia from the University of
London's School of Oriental and African Studies.

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